Introduction to
BuddyPressDEV
Nicola Greco
BuddyPressDEV - bp-dev.org

Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
What’s BuddyPress ?
BuddyPress will transform a vanilla
installation of WordPress MU into a
social network platform.

Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
What’s DEV ?
DEV is the abbreviation of
DEVelopers

Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
What’s BuddyPressDEV ?
BuddyPressDEV has been the first
community of BuddyPress developers
that shares code to extend
BuddyPress

Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
Why BuddyPressDEV ?
• Need a community for developers
• Need new plugins for BuddyPress*
• Need a support for 3rd part plugins
• Need a 3d part plugins list

Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
What’s now BPDEV ?
• Community of BP’ developers
• Home of BPDEV Plugins
• Support site for BP & BPDEV Plugins
• Project of an italian guru developer
rockstar engineer student

Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
Screenshot of BuddyPressDEV

Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
What are BPDEV Plugins ?
BPDEV Plugins are a set of free
plugins, that will extend the features
of BuddyPress to a new or existing
installation.

Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
BPDEV Plugins List
CORE
+
WIDGETS VISUAL EDITOR
EXTRA GROUPS ADMIN
AUTOSUGGEST XMLRPC
NOSPAM FLICKR
YOUTUBE SUBSCRIBE
THEMES OTHER PLUGINS

Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
BuddyPress Components
CORE
+
BLOG TRACKER GROUPS
EXTENDED PROFILES WIRE
PRIVATE MESSAGES ACTIVITY
FRIENDS STATUS
THEMES ALBUMS

Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
BPDEV Plugins List
CORE
+
WIDGETS VISUAL EDITOR
EXTRA GROUPS ADMIN
AUTOSUGGEST XMLRPC
NOSPAM FLICKR
YOUTUBE SUBSCRIBE
THEMES OTHER PLUGINS

Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
BPDEV Admin

Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
BPDEV TinyMCE

Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
BPDEV YouTube

Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
BPDEV Flickr

Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
BPDEV Groups Extra

Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
BPDEV Widgets

Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
BPDEV AutoSuggest

Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
Other BPDEV Plugins
NOSPAM XMLRPC
Filter spam in wire & XMLRPC Support to
in bp components and BuddyPress components
spammer registrations
THEME SUBSCRIBE
Stylesheet manager
INVITE FRIENDS Invite friends via email/
by Giovanni Caputo facebook and other
internet services

Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
BPDEV License?
GPL
It means free, not without cost
Don’t worry, they are free

Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
Why plugins are free?
• Community contributes
• Someone donates to fix bugs
• Someone pays me to write a new plugin

Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
What about paid plugins?
• Asking for a plugin is good
• Donating for a plugin is better
• Paying for a plugin is the best

Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
What about paid plugins?
• Donate to have full support and more
plugins
• Donate to sustain development of free
code

Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
BPDEV Support?
FORUMS TRAC
Ask support to me Report Bugs and
and the community feature requests
FREE. AND THE PAID ONE ?

Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
BPDEV Forums

Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
BPDEV Trac

Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
BPDEV Translation?
POT
Thanks to Slava AU a member of
BPDEV, Plugins are now translated
in more than 5 languages!

Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
Some uses of BPDEV
★ Themes for each user/group
★ Spot sites ( like SpotKenya )
★ Requests between 2 sites with XMLRPC
★ Mark/unmark mu blogs as favourite
and create ranking

Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
Other plugins for
BuddyPress?

Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
There’s WordPress!
http://buddypress.org/extends/plugins

Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
New BPDEV Plugin?
★ BPDEV MediaWiki
★ BPDEV Groups Maps

Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
Thanks! No question please,
I’m just 16n!
I’m kidding of course!
• BuddyPress Website:
http://buddypress.org
Nicola Greco*
• BuddyPressDEV: BPDEV - bp-dev.org
http://bp-dev.org nicolagreco.com
• SVN:
16n since 3 weeks
http://svn.bp-dev.org/trunk
• Bug Tracker:
Thanksas WP Rockstar!
Paolo!
http://trac.bp-dev.org Vote him and me
• IRC:
#buddypress (Freenode)
• Twitter: @buddypressdev and @bpdev