Bronson is a WordPress obsessed designer/developer from Brisbane. This presentation is a case study of a hot-new BuddyPress site Bronson created for The Edge.

1. SUPERCHARGING WORDPRESS
WITH BUDDYPRESS!
Bronson Quick
sennza | (07) 3040-1545 | bronson@sennza.com.au | http://www.sennza.com.au/ | Twitter: @sennza

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!
2 of 12 sennza | (07) 3040-1545 | bronson@sennza.com.au | http://www.sennza.com.au/ | Twitter: @sennza

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!
3 of 12 sennza | (07) 3040-1545 | bronson@sennza.com.au | http://www.sennza.com.au/ | Twitter: @sennza

4. MY SETUP FOR THIS WORKSHOP
 A fresh WordPress install
 WAMP
 Firefox & Firebug
 PhpStorm
Lets do this!
4 of 12 sennza | (07) 3040-1545 | bronson@sennza.com.au | http://www.sennza.com.au/ | Twitter: @sennza

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!
5 of 12 sennza | (07) 3040-1545 | bronson@sennza.com.au | http://www.sennza.com.au/ | Twitter: @sennza

6. YOKO THEME
 http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/yoko
 Responsive Demo
 Child Theme http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
 http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/one-click-child-theme/
Sexy, clean and nice!
6 of 12 sennza | (07) 3040-1545 | bronson@sennza.com.au | http://www.sennza.com.au/ | Twitter: @sennza

7. BUDDYPRESS
BuddyPress: “Social networking in a box”
7 of 12 sennza | (07) 3040-1545 | bronson@sennza.com.au | http://www.sennza.com.au/ | Twitter: @sennza

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 
8 of 12 sennza | (07) 3040-1545 | bronson@sennza.com.au | http://www.sennza.com.au/ | Twitter: @sennza

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!
9 of 12 sennza | (07) 3040-1545 | bronson@sennza.com.au | http://www.sennza.com.au/ | Twitter: @sennza

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!
10 of 12 sennza | (07) 3040-1545 | bronson@sennza.com.au | http://www.sennza.com.au/ | Twitter: @sennza

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!
11 of 12 sennza | (07) 3040-1545 | bronson@sennza.com.au | http://www.sennza.com.au/ | Twitter: @sennza

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!
12 of 12 sennza | (07) 3040-1545 | bronson@sennza.com.au | http://www.sennza.com.au/ | Twitter: @sennza