win friends and influence people with buddypress
DESCRIPTION
Buddypress 101TRANSCRIPT
Win Friends & Influence People with BuddyPress
or BuddyPress 101Shelley Keith @sk140
Me
• Sysadmin/web dork since 199something• In higher ed since 2004• WordPress as university CMS since 2009• Technical reviewer – Beginning WordPress 3.0
by Stephanie Leary• HigherEdExperts presenter – OpenSource CMS
Fair: WordPressMU, April 2010
BuddyPresso Social network layero Core Featureso Profileo “Wall”/Activity Streamso Friendso Groupso Blogso Forums
Wha…? Why?o Good Uses:o Campus wide social networko Company-wide internal
communication toolo Niche social network for interest topico Benefitso Own the contento Long-term relationship maintenanceo Timely integration and removal of
popular third-party social networkso Absolute style control
Install & Setup
Plugins > Add New > Search “BuddyPress” > InstallChoose themeActivate componentsEstablish profile fields
Component setup
Profile fields
Profiles
Activity Streams
Groups
Group Activity
Auto Join Group
Group Management
Forums
Some BP Sites
Handy BuddyPress Plugins
• Welcome Pack• Achievements• BuddyPress Share It• Group Suggest Widget• Simple Google Map Plugin
Securityo Built ino User sign-up rules/roleso Auto-generate passwordso Pluginso Secure WordPresso WP Security Scano WordPress Exploit Scanner
Referenceo BuddyPress.orgo BP-Tricks.como WPMU.org*o BPinspire.como WPBeginner.com
\m/ Awesome Resources
Sites & Books– The WordPress Bible– Beginning WP 3.0– WPMUDev.org– BuddyPress For Dummies– MUSupport.net– WordPress on LinkedIn
People on Twitter@andrea_r@wpmuguru@sleary@jimgroom@donncha@lisasabinwilson@ohz@yoast
Roadmapo Privacy controlso Content Flaggingo Message file attachmentso Global content tagging