BuddyPress Tips: How We Built chekmrk

BuddyPress Tips:How we built chekmrk

Innovation happens by knowing whatthe rules are and then bending themor breaking them to do what we want. How we built chekmrk

BuddyPress is a powerful tool. Wediscovered a unique way to use thesoftware. We challenged ourselves tothink about the software differently. How we built chekmrk

DATA: how do you get dataabout your business? How we built chekmrk

At the heart of the issue is the failureto distinguish between narrative, dataand method. - Greg Glassman, Founder, CrossFit (In response to the ﬁtness industries unsubstantiated claims. Example: Why doesn’t the “AB Roller” work?) How we built chekmrk

Narrative is a story. “Our projects are on time and on budget!” How we built chekmrk

Data is something that is measurable,observable and repeatable. “It takes us 3 months to build a website.” How we built chekmrk

Method is the exactapproach you took. “We use the Waterfall process.” How we built chekmrk

Narrative, Data and Method cannotexist independently. - Narrative is just guesses without data - Data needs narrative for direction - Method needs data to ﬁgure out which process to employ How we built chekmrk

Businesses can use Narrative, Dataand Method, to track projects better. - Narrative is the project scope - Data are the tasks for the project - Method is the software used to complete the tasks How we built chekmrk

How are you keeping track? - A project management app is one of the few tools we have to measure the success of our business. How we built chekmrk

Why use a project management app?• Keep project on track• Central place for communication• Accountability, if its not in the project it doesnt exist.• Team member leaves, the next person can pick up quickly.• Anyone can go on vacation at any time. How we built chekmrk

HISTORY: how we choseBuddyPress to build a projectmanagement application. How we built chekmrk

ProjectGroupie (2003 - 2009)Pre-BuddyPress - The ﬁrst projectmanagement app we built How we built chekmrk

When we built ProjectGroupie, welearned a lot about how peopleactually manage projects.• People dont use most features• People relied on email updates a lot• People liked having a dashboard• Communication happened outside• Scaling the app was difﬁcult. How we built chekmrk

BuddyPress 1.0 (April 30, 2009) BuddyPress is a social networking plugin.Incredible sharing and data collection features. How we built chekmrk

Why BuddyPress?It’s about the sharing and data.• Display data from all main areas, Activity, Forums, Members, Groups, Blogs, Group Members, Private Messages and Proﬁle.• Share data across features, between users• Extensive plugin utilities• Custom proﬁle build out• Keep data public or private How we built chekmrk

ProjectGroupie was “project centric”We realized people contribute to projects.Projects don’t contribute to people. How we built chekmrk

chekmrk is people centric.chekmrk is a “virtual hallway” where people canshare and contribute to others projects. How we built chekmrk

HOW BUDDYPRESS WORKS: How we built chekmrk

BuddyPress is just a plugin ( With Privileges ) How we built chekmrk

This doesn’t look like WordPress!What we see when we ﬁrst install BuddyPress How we built chekmrk

Essentially, we created a childtheme of BuddyPress. Strippingeverything away and only bringingback in what we wanted, where wewanted it. How we built chekmrk

How to customize BuddyPress• Create a child theme• Build custom templates for pages• Add BuddyPress or WordPress Plugins• Use conditionals for public or network• Create multiple menus for better UI• All WP & BP tags and functions play well together How we built chekmrk

chekmrk public facing site How we built chekmrk

chekmrk network dashboard How we built chekmrk

THE BREAKDOWN: How we get the data How we built chekmrk

Using WP functions and BP tags How we built chekmrk

WP, BP Loops & Filters How we built chekmrk

BP Group LoopsHow we built chekmrk

BuddyPress Creative Power Tips• Create template pages for ﬂexibility• Use template tags to customize display• Mix and Match WP & BP tags and functions• Really tweak CSS to make it yours• Experiment with BP Plugins How we built chekmrk

BuddyPress Resources• WP.Tutsplus.com• BP-Tricks.com• Stackexchange.com• WPMU.org• StackOverﬂow.com• BuddyPress.org How we built chekmrk

Thank you!• Slides at www.CrowdedSites.com• chekmrk invite signup www.chekmrk.com• For any questions feel free to contact me!• Wes@CrowdedSites.com How we built chekmrk

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by Wes Chyrchel on Jun 03, 2012

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