BuddyPress: Past,Present, Future...

Past Present Future How to help

Introduce what BuddyPress is…
Provide a brief history of where it started…
Touch on where it is today…
Travel through time…
Talk about how you can influence its future…

Provides a “social layer” to a WordPress(MU) installation
One plugin that includes several separate but equally functional components
Turns your website “inside out”
Shifts the focus away from soapbox content and towards community driven user activity
If you ask me “can BuddyPress do $task” I will reply “Yes”

Started out as a super simple user profile plugin for WPMU

Originally relied on the WP admin area for most functionality

Before launch, dashboard dependency was reduced and control given almost entirely to the theme (blog concept pictured)

Original concept vs. Almost final concept

Started as a simple plugin built out of client need
Became an official Automattic project in March, 2008
First public beta December 15, 2008
Turned 1.0 on April 30, 2009 (wooo hoooO!)

BuddyPress helps developers learn and use BuddyPress
Current stable version is 1.1.3
Consists of 8 separate components to carry out specific social networking type tasks: (Friends, Groups, Messaging, Wire, Activity, Forums, Status, Profiles)
Comes with example theme to jump-start development
A growing codex of resources (that still needs some TLC)
Doubled the size of the core development team from 1 to 2! :D

Merge the activity streams, status updates, and wire together into one mega awesome stream/status/wire widget…

Include a new and more intuitive default theme. ( Sneak preview below… Expect more organization… )

More profile field attributes via metadata…
Example:
Text box auto links to twitter account
Limit text box length
Developers: Set actions and filters on each field
Filter members by profile field
Site and user privacy and permission controls
Inappropriate content flagging
Quick blog post form via user profile/theme

Support for attachments and user photo galleries
Bulk accept/reject friendship requests and group invites
Gravatar upload directly from BuddyPress profile
Repurpose the BuddyPress.org group ability to focus more on developers, mentoring, and advancing the platform
Improve the BuddyPress codex
Try to take over the world…

http://buddypress.org/forums/ If you already know a lot about BuddyPress, sign up and help someone else out. If you want to know more, sign up and we’ll help you learn.
http://codex.buddypress.org Developers… Have some spare time? Login to the codex and start updating pages.
http://trac.buddypress.org Found a bug? Let us know here! You can even fix the bug yourself, gain some props on a changeset, and contribute to the advancement of the whole platform!

BuddyPress: Past,Present, Future...

by John Jacoby on Dec 07, 2009

Accessibility

Categories

Tags

Upload Details

Usage Rights

1 Embed 3

Statistics

BuddyPress: Past,Present, Future... — Presentation Transcript