Win Friends & Influence People with BuddyPress

or BuddyPress 101Shelley Keith @sk140

Me

• Sysadmin/web dork since 199something• In higher ed since 2004• WordPress as university CMS since 2009• Technical reviewer – Beginning WordPress 3.0

by Stephanie Leary• HigherEdExperts presenter – OpenSource CMS

Fair: WordPressMU, April 2010

BuddyPresso Social network layero Core Featureso Profileo “Wall”/Activity Streamso Friendso Groupso Blogso Forums

Wha…? Why?o Good Uses:o Campus wide social networko Company-wide internal

communication toolo Niche social network for interest topico Benefitso Own the contento Long-term relationship maintenanceo Timely integration and removal of

popular third-party social networkso Absolute style control

Install & Setup

Plugins > Add New > Search “BuddyPress” > InstallChoose themeActivate componentsEstablish profile fields

Component setup

Profile fields

Profiles

Activity Streams

Groups

Group Activity

Auto Join Group

Group Management

Forums

Some BP Sites

Handy BuddyPress Plugins

• Welcome Pack• Achievements• BuddyPress Share It• Group Suggest Widget• Simple Google Map Plugin

Securityo Built ino User sign-up rules/roleso Auto-generate passwordso Pluginso Secure WordPresso WP Security Scano WordPress Exploit Scanner

Referenceo BuddyPress.orgo BP-Tricks.como WPMU.org*o BPinspire.como WPBeginner.com

\m/ Awesome Resources

Sites & Books– The WordPress Bible– Beginning WP 3.0– WPMUDev.org– BuddyPress For Dummies– MUSupport.net– WordPress on LinkedIn

People on Twitter@andrea_r@wpmuguru@sleary@jimgroom@donncha@lisasabinwilson@ohz@yoast

Roadmapo Privacy controlso Content Flaggingo Message file attachmentso Global content tagging

Contact Me

o Shelley Keitho @sk140o smkeith@gmail.como about.me/

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