BuddyPress and the Future of WordPress Plugins

and the Future of WordPress Plugins by Mark Jaquith markjaquith.com coveredwebservices.com @markjaquith Saturday, September 26, 2009

BP 1.1 FTW Saturday, September 26, 2009

What is BuddyPress? • a WordPress MU plugin • a “social layer” • extensible • fond of eating its own dog food • under your control Saturday, September 26, 2009

What it can do • Extended • Groups Proﬁles • Wire • Private Messaging • Activity Streams • Friends • Forums • Blogs • Status updates Saturday, September 26, 2009

Cafeteria Style • Use only what you want • Could just use it for extended proﬁles Saturday, September 26, 2009

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Installation • Install WPMU (2.8.4a currently) • Use plugin installer to install BuddyPress • Set up themes Saturday, September 26, 2009

Theme Setup For WPMU 2.8.x: Add the themes to your themes dir: $ cd wp-content/themes/ $ ln -s ../plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-sn-parent bp-sn-parent $ ln -s ../plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default bp-default Future versions of WPMU (2.9+) will skip this step by allowing BP to tell WPMU about its default themes. Saturday, September 26, 2009

Theme Setup Enable your BP theme in WPMU Site Admin, for the main blog Activate the BP Members theme for the site's main blog Saturday, September 26, 2009

Core Files Theme Files Saturday, September 26, 2009

Pretty URLs http://bp.site/members/mark/skills/edit/buddypress/seattle Saturday, September 26, 2009

Pretty URLs http://bp.site/members/mark/skills/edit/buddypress/seattle $bp['current_component'] $bp['current_action'] $bp['action_variables'][0] $bp['action_variables'][1] Saturday, September 26, 2009

Adding Menus bp_core_new_nav_item( array( 'name' => __('Item Name', 'i18n-domain'), 'slug' => 'item-slug', 'position' => 50, 'show_for_displayed_user' => true, 'screen_function' => 'item_handler', 'default_subnav_slug' => 'index', 'item_css_id' => 'your-css-id' )); Saturday, September 26, 2009

Adding Submenus bp_core_new_subnav_item( array( 'name' => __( 'Child', 'i18n-domain' ), 'slug' => 'child-slug', 'parent_url' => $bp->loggedin_user->domain . '/item-slug', 'parent_slug' => 'item-slug', 'screen_function' => 'child_handler_function' )); Saturday, September 26, 2009

Handlers function handler_function() { // Logic here bp_core_load_template( 'item-name/index' ); // Loads item-name/index.php } Saturday, September 26, 2009

Custom components • Download the BP Skeleton Component • Learn by doing Saturday, September 26, 2009

BuddyPress 1.1 • Consolidated WP/BP themes • Crazy-simple bbPress install • Groups API • more... Saturday, September 26, 2009

bbPress Saturday, September 26, 2009

Theme Architecture • No more dual themes • BP themes are WP child themes Saturday, September 26, 2009

WP/WPMU Merge • 2010 • Will make BuddyPress available on any WordPress install • Consolidation of developer resources Saturday, September 26, 2009

BP Consulting •Nascent market •Rapidly expanding demand •Premium prices •??? •Proﬁt Saturday, September 26, 2009

Plugins Today • Often single author • High rate of abandonment • Highly variable quality • Unendorsed • Multiple competing solutions Saturday, September 26, 2009

Canonical Plugins • Multi-author • High quality • Supported • Implicit endorsement Saturday, September 26, 2009

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