Get thee behind me!Making BuddyPress do thine bidding

Boone Gorges@boonebgorgesboonebgorges@gmail.comhttp://teleogistic.net

“Facebook in a box”

o Friendso Extended profileso Groupso Forumso Interactive activity streams

Example: CUNY Academic Commonshttp://commons.gc.cuny.edu

Customization Case Study:A rocking website

bp-default: Does not rock

Dashboard > BP > Profile Fields

Customizing components

Dashboard > BP > Component Setup

Lame

define( 'BP_MEMBERS_SLUG', 'headbangers' );

bp-custom.php

Awesome

Lame

define( 'BPLANG', 'rock' );

if ( file_exists( BP_PLUGIN_DIR . '/bp-languages/buddypress-' . BPLANG . '.mo' ) ) {

load_textdomain( 'buddypress', BP_PLUGIN_DIR .'/bp-languages/buddypress-' . BPLANG . '.mo' );

}

bp-custom.php

[plugin-dir]/buddypress/bp-languages/buddypress-rock.po

Awesome

Theming with bp-sn-parent

bp-sn-parent

standard WP theme

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BP theme files

Lame

[theme-dir]/bp-rock/style.css

[theme-dir]/bp-rock/_inc/css/style.css

Awesome

Plugins

Tools

o Group extension APIo http://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/group-extension-api/

o Skeleton componento http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-skeleton-component/

Hooks and filters

function how_bad_ass_am_i() {global $bp;

$user_id = $bp->displayed_user->id;$user_name = $bp->displayed_user->fullname;$user_url = $bp->displayed_user->domain;

echo '<a href="' . $user_url . '">' . $user_name . '</a> is bad ass #' . $user_id . ' on this site.';

}add_action( 'bp_before_profile_field_content', 'how_bad_ass_am_i' );

bp-custom.php

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!

Resources

o http://codex.buddypress.org/o http://buddypress.org/forumso http://buddypress.org/extend/plugins/

Yes!

Boone Gorges@boonebgorgesboonebgorges@gmail.com