The document discusses the social networking plugin BuddyPress and how it can be used to create communities on WordPress sites. BuddyPress provides features like profiles, friends, messaging, activity streams, and groups. It integrates tightly with WordPress MU to allow fully-functional social networking capabilities. The document also provides examples of sites using BuddyPress and gives instructions on customizing BuddyPress themes.

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2. User, meet BuddyPress What is BuddyPress…and what it isn’t Quick tour through BuddyPress features How sites are using BuddyPress today? Customizing your BuddyPress site using the included parent/child theme framework November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

3. WordPress MU + BuddyPress Add BuddyPress to an existing installation of WordPress MU to create a fully functional social community on your own web site. November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

4. BuddyPress is NOT Facebook(in a box or otherwise) November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

5. BuddyPress is Facebook-ish Facebook is global where BuddyPress is targeted in a way that you direct Conversations on Facebook happen in front of everyone..including your mother (have you friended her?) Conversations on BuddyPress happen in front of YOUR own niche social community November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

6. BuddyPress Components November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

7. Extended Profiles Members within your community sharing information about themselves by filling out profile fields that have been created by the site administrator. November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

8. Set Up Profile Fields

9. User Registration Page profile fields for users to fill out November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

10. Results of Profile FieldsPopulate Member Profile Pages November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

11. Friends Meet new people and add friends within the social community through the Friends feature in BuddyPress. November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

12. Private Messaging Send and receive private messages from your friends within the community. BuddyPress private messaging is like a built-in email engine for you to send and receive messages between friends. November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

13. Private Messaging Feature November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

14. The Wire The wire is a place where community members and/or visitors can leave comments and feedback on different content within the community: Member profiles Groups Photos, links, etc. November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

15. The Wire Feature November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

16. Activity Streams Aggregation of different types of activity throughout the community. Individual activity streams Site-wide activity streams Group activity streams November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

17. Activity Stream Feature November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

18. Blog Tracking When user blogs are enabled, BuddyPress tracks: The creation of new blogs New/recent blog comments New/recent blog posts Searchable Blog Directory November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

19. Blog Tracking Feature November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

20. Status Updates Think Twitter. What are you doing right now, updates on your member profile Gets published to the activity stream on your profile, and in the site wide activity stream November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

21. Status Updates Feature November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

22. Groups Micro-communities within the larger community A gathering of community members in one Group Typical formed around a specific niche or topic Private, Hidden and Public Wire, News, Forums November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

23. Group Examples Andy Peatling “BP Jedi Masters” A group for master level BuddyPress developers and gurus November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

24. Group Examples Mark Jaquith “BP Consultants” A group for people providing BuddyPress consultation services November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

25. Group Examples Matt Mullenweg “Total Newbie” A group for newbies wanting to learn more about BuddyPress November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

26. WPMU BuddyPress  Members  Group Creation November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

27. BuddyPress Group Features November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

28. Group Forums powered by bbPress Forums can be enabled to allow groups to run individual discussion forums Group forums powered by bbPress No bbPress installation required – it’s already there when you install BuddyPress! November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

30. Most Popular

31. Unreplied

32. My TopicsNovember 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

33. Individual Group Forum Page November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

34. Directories Searchable and Filterable community-wide directories Groups Blogs Members Forums November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

35. Directories Feature - Members November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

36. Directories Feature - Forums November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

37. Site Wide Activity Streaming What is happening right now in your community? Searchable Filterable Status Updates New Friendships Blog Posts/Comments Group Creation/Discussion November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

39. Friendships

40. Group activity

41. Profile activity

42. Member status updatesSite Wide activity streams paginate, by default, after 25 listings and keeps up to 200 listings Site Wide activity streams publishes an RSS Feed users can subscribe to: http://domain.com/activity/feed November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

43. BuddyPress Specific WidgetsCan be used on all member blogs Members, Groups, Blogs Welcome Widget Who is Online Members: Newest, Active, Popular Recently Active Members November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

45. Active

46. PopularNovember 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

47. How are sites using BuddyPress?? Creating/growing communities Extending social network involvement Networks of Blogs November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

48. BugleNotes.com A social community for Grads and Cadets of West Point. The community is the focus with site wide activity streams, groups, and member listings displayed directly on the front page. The main site blog is a click a way, as well as the Member, Groups and Forums directories. BugleNotes.com uses the default BuddyPress child theme, hooked into the default BuddyPress parent framework. November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

49. WeEarth.com Social community of users fostering social consciousness through art, activism and media. Number one focus is content on the front page, with the BuddyPress community features built as more of an enhancement feature. Allows creation of member blogs, profiles and groups. E-Commerce piece is powered by the WP Shopp plugin Design is a customized WordPress theme with BuddyPress theme features built in. November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

51. Site contributor status updates

52. Forums

53. Members widgetThis community does have member blogs enabled, groups cannot be created by community members and the social community aspect of the site is fully guided and controlled by the site admin. Uses a heavily customized BP child theme, using BP parent theme framework. November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

54. SportsGrants.Org Using social media to raise money for non profit foundations worldwide like Susan B. Komen and the Lance Armstrong Foundation. Integrating WordPress MU, BuddyPress and other social media like Twitter, Facebookand YouTube Design is a modified WooTheme (Productum) – BuddyPress integrated into the WooTheme framework for their Member profiles, directories, and groups. November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

56. bp-defaultBuddyPress themes get moved from /buddypress/bp-themes/ to /wp-content/themes … for now. STYLE changes happen in bp-default. Activate the bp-default theme. FUNCTION changes happen with bp-sn-parent files… dropped into the bp-default folder. bp-default November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

57. Customize CSS and Images in bp-default /* Theme Name: BuddyPress Default Theme URI: http://buddypress.org/extend/themes/ Description: The default theme for BuddyPress. Version: 1.1.2 Author: BuddyPress.org Author URI: http://buddypress.org Tags: buddypress, three-columns, white, orange, flexible-width Template: bp-sn-parent */ /* Font styles */ @import url( ../bp-sn-parent/_inc/css/fonts/12px.css ); /* Layout styles for home page, internal pages and blog/directory pages */ @import url( ../bp-sn-parent/_inc/css/layout/home-page/3c-right.css ); @import url( ../bp-sn-parent/_inc/css/layout/internal-pages/3c-left.css ); @import url( ../bp-sn-parent/_inc/css/layout/blog-dir-pages/2c-right.css ); /* Default theme admin bar styles */ @import url( _inc/css/adminbar.css ); /* Default theme styles */ @import url( _inc/css/screen.css ); /* Uncomment the following line and add your custom styles to '_inc/css/custom.css' */ /* @import url( _inc/css/custom.css ); */ November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

58. Bp-default CSS Template: bp-sn-parent – this tells BuddyPress that this child theme wishes to inherit all the template files from the bp-sn-parent theme @import url( _inc/css/custom.css ); uncomment this line and upload a custom.css to /wp-content/themes/bp-default/_inc/css and use it to customize the CSS stying of your theme November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

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60. BuddyPress Parent Theme Contains all template functions Do not alter  copy to the bp-default THEN you can alter it to your hearts content This keeps the bp-sn-parent theme framework completely intact and keeps your theme upgrade proof! November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress

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62. Creating Community with Thank you! @LisaSabinWilson http://lisasabin-wilson.com WordPress For Dummies BuddyPress For Dummies (both available on Amazon.com) November 14, 2009 Lisa Sabin-Wilson Creating Community with BuddyPress