BuddyPress case study for WordPress folk

Members

3 ways for Member

Registration / Access

Group landing page

-> Forum

• Decide on multi- or single- site beforehand
• Strip away redundant WP/BP channels
• Build theme files in child theme
• Test in target audience browser(s) - particularly when they are locked in to IE.

http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage

• Achievements
• BP Labs
• BuddyPress Live Notification
• BuddyPress Activity Comment Notifier
• WP Hide Dashboard
• White Label CMS
• U BuddyPress Forum Editor - do target browser check first!
• TPC! Memory Usage and W3 Total Cache
• BuddyPress Wiki component
• BuddyPress ScholarPress Courseware - if you need an LMS.

Thank you

A case study

activity

Forums

Groups

+

Member Functions

wp-config.php

Ideally, add something like a BP_has_forum_posts() criteria here...

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Time line...

Week 11 Review & clean out

• Forums archived
• Members clean up

• Professional Development for teachers
• New groups created
• New students/teachers register and join groups

Formative assessment 1 & 2

Formative assessment 3 & 4

Formative assessment 7 & 8

Summative assessment 2

Graduation

Summative assessment 1

Formative assessment 5 & 6

Week 1

Week 5

Week 10

Week 6

<?php

define ('BP_ENABLE_ROOT_PROFILES', true );

define ('BP_DEFAULT_COMPONENT', 'profile');

define ('BP_GROUPS_AUTO_JOIN', true);

?>

BuddyPress Username Changer

Caution:-

In BuddyPress activity stream, the username and link are inserted statically. So, It will not update the old activity stream. Though, the activity will still belong to user but clicking on the username in activity stream for older link will redirect to homepage. Clicking 'View' will work.

User Name Availability Checker for WordPress/BuddyPress

Welcome Pack

BP Disable Activation

Register

/ Login

Tips

Forums

Activity

Stream

Disables the requirement for users to activate by email on a standalone WP install with BuddyPress.

Groups

versus

WP-FB-AutoConnect

Janrain Engage

versus

Widget

comparison

Tiny MCE editors are just one of the many things that fail for our site in IE8.

• member updates

• system events

Group Suggestions

Disable the @mentions capability in BuddyPress.

plugins/bp-custom.php

BuddyPress No Mentions

<?php

// the following 2 functions are from http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/changing-group-tab-display-defaults/?topic_page=2&num=15#post-77611

// this function redirects from group landing page to group forum if the user is a member or if the group is public

function redirect_to_forum() {

global $bp;

$path = clean_url( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] );

$path = apply_filters( 'bp_uri', $path );

if ( bp_is_group_home() && strpos( $path, $bp->bp_options_nav['groups']['home']['slug'] ) === false ) {

if ($bp->groups->current_group->is_user_member || $bp->groups->current_group->status == 'public') {

bp_core_redirect( $path . $bp->bp_options_nav['groups']['forum']['slug'] . '/' );

}

}

}

add_action( 'wp', 'redirect_to_forum' );

// this function hides the group home tab and shows the activity tab with the name Activity

function my_bp_groups_forum_first_tab() {

global $bp;

if ($bp->groups->current_group->is_user_member || $bp->groups->current_group->status == 'public') {

$bp->bp_options_nav['groups']['home']['position'] = '50';

$bp->bp_options_nav['groups']['home']['name'] = 'Activity';

}

}

add_action('wp', 'my_bp_groups_forum_first_tab');

?>

http://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/bp-custom-php/

Perfect for users who don't understand Twitter!

More plugins for consideration

Group Documents

U BuddyPress Forum Attachment

BuddyPress Like

BuddyPress Topic Mover

BP

Unread Posts

Restrict Group Creation

Buddypress Rate Forum Posts

Resources

Enter a URL eg.http://youtu.be/XLG-RXBe4Bc

and get the content!

Hierarchy

Tags

oEmbed for BuddyPress

http://buddypress.org/community/groups/

http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=2216424&trk=anet_ug_hm

http://groups.diigo.com/group_mana/search_groups?keywords=buddypress+wordpress