Creating Community with BuddyPress

Creating Community with
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Lisa Sabin-Wilson
Creating Community with BuddyPress

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
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WordPress MU + BuddyPress
Add BuddyPress to an
existing installation of
WordPress MU to create a
fully functional social
community on your own
web site.
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BuddyPress is NOT Facebook(in a box or otherwise)
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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
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BuddyPress Components
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Extended Profiles
Members within your community sharing information about themselves by filling out profile fields that have been created by the site administrator.
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Set Up Profile Fields

User Registration Page profile fields for users to fill out
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Results of Profile FieldsPopulate Member Profile Pages
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Friends
Meet new people and add friends within the social community through the Friends feature in BuddyPress.
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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.
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Private Messaging Feature
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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.
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The Wire Feature
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Activity Streams
Aggregation of different types of activity throughout the community.
Individual activity streams
Site-wide activity streams
Group activity streams
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Activity Stream Feature
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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
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Blog Tracking Feature
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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
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Status Updates Feature
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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
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Group Examples
Andy Peatling
“BP Jedi Masters”
A group for master level BuddyPress developers and gurus
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Group Examples
Mark Jaquith
“BP Consultants”
A group for people providing BuddyPress consultation services
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Group Examples
Matt Mullenweg
“Total Newbie”
A group for newbies wanting to learn more about BuddyPress
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WPMU BuddyPress  Members  Group Creation
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BuddyPress Group Features
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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!
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Forums Directory – Topic Listings
Topic listings can be filtered by:
Newest
Most Popular
Unreplied
My Topics
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Individual Group Forum Page
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Directories
Searchable and Filterable community-wide directories
Groups
Blogs
Members
Forums
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Directories Feature - Members
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Directories Feature - Forums
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Site Wide Activity Streaming
What is happening right now in your community?
Searchable
Filterable
Status Updates
New Friendships
Blog Posts/Comments
Group Creation/Discussion
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Site Wide Activity Stream
Filter community activity by:
Blog activity
Friendships
Group activity
Profile activity
Member status updates
Site 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
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BuddyPress Specific WidgetsCan be used on all member blogs
Members, Groups, Blogs
Welcome Widget
Who is Online
Members: Newest, Active, Popular
Recently Active Members
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Widget Examples Members & Groups
Toggle Member and Groups display by:
Newest
Active
Popular
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How are sites using BuddyPress??
Creating/growing communities
Extending social network involvement
Networks of Blogs
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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.
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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.
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NourishNetwork.com
Food and cooking community with an emphasis on sustainable foods and eco-friendly cooking methods.
Front page mixes main site content with member community features that pulls BuddyPress features into the front page such as:
Site admin status updates
Site contributor status updates
Forums
Members widget
This 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.
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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.
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Customizing BuddyPress
bp-sn-parent
Parent/Child theme framework:
bp-sn-parent
bp-default
BuddyPress 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
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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 ); */
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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
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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!
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Creating Community with
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@LisaSabinWilson
http://lisasabin-wilson.com
WordPress For Dummies
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