BuddyPress @ WordCamp SF 2009

Cooking with BuddyPress Andy Peatling http://apeatling.wordpress.com / @apeatling Saturday, May 30, 2009

What is it? Why should I use it? How do I skin and extend it? Saturday, May 30, 2009

Multi-Blog Platform Multi-Blog + Social Platform Saturday, May 30, 2009

“Just a Plugin” Profiles Blog Tracking Activity Streams Friend Connections Content Groups Comment Wires Discussion Forums Status Updates* Private Messaging Photo Albums* Saturday, May 30, 2009

Why? Build passionate users around a specific niche. Saturday, May 30, 2009

Sports Teams Niche Communities High Schools Universities Companies or Products Newspapers Intranets Blogging Networks Cities & Towns Saturday, May 30, 2009

http://buddypress.org/ Saturday, May 30, 2009

A social network: to be or not to be? Saturday, May 30, 2009

BuddyPress is not all or nothing. Saturday, May 30, 2009

Why BuddyPress? Saturday, May 30, 2009

Power & Stability Open Source Community Saturday, May 30, 2009

BYOTOS (Bring Your Own Terms Of Service) Saturday, May 30, 2009

Custom Branding Saturday, May 30, 2009

Existing Plugins Saturday, May 30, 2009

University Intranet Profiles Activity Streams + LDAP Login Plugin Blog Tracking + “More Privacy” Plugin Comment Wires + Group Blogs Plugin Content Groups Saturday, May 30, 2009

How do I install BuddyPress? Saturday, May 30, 2009

Download & Install WordPress MU (stick with sub-folders if you can) Saturday, May 30, 2009

One click download & install Saturday, May 30, 2009

Oh, and move the themes... Default BP Theme Default WP Theme /wp-content/bp-themes/ /wp-content/themes/ bpmember/ bphome/ (optional) Saturday, May 30, 2009

Choose your components Saturday, May 30, 2009

Drop in social widgets Saturday, May 30, 2009

Set up bbPress for forums (will become easier!) Saturday, May 30, 2009

Saturday, May 30, 2009

How do I skin BuddyPress? Saturday, May 30, 2009

WordPress themes are for blog/content pages Saturday, May 30, 2009

BuddyPress themes are for social pages Saturday, May 30, 2009

Theme combinations WP Theme BP Theme Saturday, May 30, 2009

Blog Networks Saturday, May 30, 2009

BuddyPress themes have specific template files for each component Saturday, May 30, 2009

Neatly ordered into sub-folders Saturday, May 30, 2009

Don’t need a component? Delete ‘em! Saturday, May 30, 2009

URL’s map to template files http://example.org/members/andy/messages/compose/ /wp-content/bp-themes/bpmember/messages/compose.php Saturday, May 30, 2009

BuddyPress themes use “The Loop” but not just for blog posts Saturday, May 30, 2009

Output any BuddyPress content through custom loops bp_has_activities() bp_group_has_members() bp_has_wire_posts() bp_has_site_members() bp_has_message_threads() bp_has_profile() bp_has_site_groups() bp_has_groups() bp_has_friendships() bp_has_site_blogs() bp_has_comments() bp_has_blogs() bp_has_posts() http://bit.ly/bploopdocs Saturday, May 30, 2009

The “Site Members” Loop Saturday, May 30, 2009

Fine grained control over loop output Saturday, May 30, 2009

The “Skeleton Theme” is a BuddyPress theme framework (it’s bundled with every BuddyPress download) Saturday, May 30, 2009

Saturday, May 30, 2009

How can I extend BuddyPress? Saturday, May 30, 2009

BuddyPress is as extensible as WordPress Saturday, May 30, 2009

All BuddyPress components are coded and structured the same way Saturday, May 30, 2009

Standardization and consistency makes happy developers Saturday, May 30, 2009

BuddyPress functions allow you to talk directly to the theme Saturday, May 30, 2009

Building your component navigation bp_core_add_nav_item ( ‘Profile’, // Name ‘profile’ // Slug ); bp_core_add_subnav_item ( ‘profile’, // Slug of parent ‘Edit Profile’, // Name ‘edit’, // Slug of sub nav item $bp->loggedin_user->domain . ‘/profile’, // parent URL ‘xprofile_screen_edit’ // Function to run when clicked ); Saturday, May 30, 2009

bp_core_add_subnav_item ( ‘profile’, // Slug of parent ‘Edit Profile’, // Name ‘edit’, // Slug of sub nav item $bp->loggedin_user->domain . ‘/profile’, // parent URL ‘xprofile_screen_edit’ // Function to run when clicked ); function xprofile_screen_edit() { // Do stuff (save changes etc) bp_core_load_template ( ‘profile/edit-profile’ ); } [activetheme]/profile/edit-profile.php Saturday, May 30, 2009

BuddyPress components are all URL action based Saturday, May 30, 2009

http://example.org/groups/wplovers/members/ban/345 $bp->current_component $bp->current_item $bp->current_action $bp->action_variables (string) (string) (string) (array) Easily create and use pretty URL’s in your components http://example.org/members/andy/wordcamps/attended/sf/2009 Saturday, May 30, 2009

Hook in everywhere http://bit.ly/bphooks Saturday, May 30, 2009

The “Skeleton Component” is a BuddyPress plugin framework http://bit.ly/bpskelcomp Saturday, May 30, 2009

http://bp-dev.org Saturday, May 30, 2009

The Future.... Cast your votes! http://bit.ly/bpvote Saturday, May 30, 2009

Thanks! Questions? @apeatling @buddypressdev Saturday, May 30, 2009

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