The document discusses how to supercharge a WordPress website with BuddyPress in under 30 minutes. It involves taking an existing responsive theme, turning it into a child theme, adding BuddyPress templates to the child theme, and fixing any CSS styling issues. The document outlines the steps needed to set up BuddyPress on a WordPress site, including installing BuddyPress and its template pack and using tools like Firebug to tweak the styles.
2. OVERVIEW
Take an existing theme that is designed for responsive design
Turn it into a child theme
Add BuddyPress templates to child theme
Fix CSS styling
All this in 30 minutes!
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3. WHO AM I?
Brisbane based WordPress Developer
Working with different CMS for 12 years
Die hard Smashing Pumpkins fan!
Organiser of the WordPress Brisbane Meetup group
Just a guy who is obsessed with WordPress!
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4. MY SETUP FOR THIS WORKSHOP
A fresh WordPress install
WAMP
Firefox & Firebug
PhpStorm
Lets do this!
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5. RESPONSIVE DESIGN
Who knows what responsive design is?
Design for mobile, iPad, desktops
TwentyEleven is responsive and the WordPress admin will be responsive soon too!
http://themetrust.com/demos/reveal/
http://www.bostonglobe.com/
Resize your browser window on sites if you’re bored!
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7. BUDDYPRESS
BuddyPress: “Social networking in a box”
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8. ALRIGHT STOP…BUDDYPRESS TIME!
http://testbp.org/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress/
BuddyPress 1.5 Wizard
BuddyPress Template Pack
Life is so much easier with BuddyPress 1.5
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9. WHAT JUST HAPPENED?!?!
Lots of new folders with templates in them!
activity
blogs
forums
groups
members
registration
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-default-data/
It’s not as scary as it first looks!
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10. FIREBUG IS YOUR FRIEND
Tweak BP-admin-bar styles
#wrap and #main on internal pages
FitVid.js for responsive vids
It’s not as scary as it first looks!
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11. COOL PLUGINS
BP Labs http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-labs/
BuddyPress Activity Plus
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-activity-plus/
BuddyPress Like http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-like/
Welcome Pack http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/welcome-pack/
You’ve now got a social network!
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12. THANKS & QUESTIONS
Andy Peatling (@apeatling)
Paul Gibbs (@pgibbs)
Boone B Gorges (@boonebgorges)
All the people on BuddyPress.org & the WordPress community!
And thanks to you for your time!
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