In this presentation we will look at different BuddyPress plugins and discuss their features and functions so that you can build a community that people enjoy using. We will discuss what turns a BuddyPress site into a community and talk about different ways that you can recruit members via social media channels without being a nuisance. This session is intended for those new to BuddyPress and for those who might already have a BuddyPress website but are looking to add to the core functionality.

1. THE BEST OF BUDDYPRESS PLUGINS
Speaker: Karla Campos
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2. WHO USES BUDDYPRESS?
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3. Tamrial Foundry – community discussion site
about gameplay for the game The Elder Scrolls
Tamrial Foundry
uses BuddyPress &
has 29,074
members
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4. CUNY – An academic social network created
by and for CUNY (City University of NY).
The City University
of NY uses
BuddyPress and
has 4,948 Members.
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5. Cultura Digital – Site from Brazil using
BuddyPress
People in other
countries use
BuddyPress too,
here is a site from
Brazil : )
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6. BUILDING COMMUNITIES
Speaker: Karla Campos
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7. WHAT NOT TO DO, DON’T BE A NUISANCE
 Try and force people to be in your community
 Chase people around on other social networks
 Send another 20 emails and private messages asking people to join because the
first 100 weren’t enough on the same day.
 Take people’s emails from networking events and add them to your email list,
what was that last thing about the 100 messages?
 It’s all about me, wait what about the user?
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8. WHY DO PEOPLE WANT TO BE PART OF
ONLINE COMMUNITIES?
 Similar Interest
 Similar cause
 Similar lifestyle
 They are all part of an organization and want to stay connected
 Language
 To stay focused on a topic
 Privacy
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9. WHY DO PEOPLE LEAVE WEBSITE COMMUNITIES?
 The site is difficult to navigate
 Users can’t find what they are looking for
 User doesn’t feel welcomed or wanted in a community – no one says hello
 The community is an abandoned town
 People are too pushy – join me now, buy this, buy that
 Content doesn’t match with offering
 Culture mismatch
 People don’t feel appreciated for their contribution
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10. WHAT TO DO
 Know your audience, if you don’t know who they are take the time to learn
 Treat people the way you want to be treated
 Create great content that talks to your audience
 Instead of asking people to join, join, join show them why they should
 Use other social networks to spread the reach of your content
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11. BUDDYPRESS PLUGINS
Speaker: Karla Campos
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12. rtMedia for WordPress, BuddyPress and
bbPress
• Enables front end
photo, video and
music uploads.
• Paid video
encoding option
• Adds media tab
to user profiles
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13. rtMedia for WordPress, BuddyPress and
bbPress
• Allows different
privacy levels
• Plays well
w/mobile
• There is a Pro
version $149
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14. BuddyPress Social
• Adds social
sharing buttons
to posts.
• You can change
button color
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15. iFlyChat – Real Time WordPress Chat Plugin
• You need to
create iFly chat
account
• Badword filters
• Public Chat
Room
• Select pages you
want chat to
appear
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16. BuddyPress Group Email Subscription
• No Email
• Weekly Summary
Email
• Daily Digest
Email
• New Topics Email
• All Email
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17. BuddyPress Profiles Statistics (Premium)
• Discover the time
your users are
active
• What type of
activity is more
important for users
• See which users
have empty
profiles
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18. Eyes Only: User Access Shortcode
Show or hide any
portion of post
content based on
usernames, user
roles, capabilities,
custom groups, or
logged-in status.
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19. WangGuard
• Protect your
BuddyPress site
from unwanted
users.
• Security
questions at
registration
• Ability to report
users
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20. WP-FB AutoConnect
• Existing users who connect
with FB retain the same
local user accounts
• New visitors will be given
new user accounts
• Facebook profile pictures
can be used as avatars,
even on pre-existing
comments.
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21. BP Profile Search
• Insert the search form in
your Members Directory
page, in a sidebar or
widget area
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22. Private BP Pages
• Make BP pages
private while leaving
WP pages and posts
public.
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23. THE END, THANK YOU!
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“No matter how good the tools are, communities don’t form
themselves; our facilitators keep up the energy and activity
levels on the site, moving the community forward.”
~Developer Boone Gorges on the CUNY social network