Articles Tagged 'buddypress'
How to use BuddyPress as a Private Collaboration System
DarrenMFor sites with multiple writers, it’s nice to have a place for them all to interact privately. Though there are solutions like Yammer and Teambox, they require your writers to register and log into another site. I can only guess as to how busy some people are! With this post I’ll show you how to make your own Private Social network for your writers using BuddyPress. WordPress 3.0 is required for this guide, as we’ll be putting WordPress 3.0’s new multi-site feature to good use, along with BuddyPress.
How to Create your own BuddyPress theme (Part-2)
After completing the 1st part of this guide you should have a theme which looks just as you want it, or is not far off what you aimed for. In this part I’ll show you how to add even more changes to your child theme. If you haven’t read the previous parts yet I recommend you do so to gain an insight into how to best go about the required steps.
How to Create your own BuddyPress theme (Part-1)
After installing BuddyPress you may want to change from the default theme. Yes it looks great, but to stand out from other sites using BuddyPress you’ll want to use a different theme. Finding a good-looking BuddyPress theme you like is hard too, compared to WordPress there isn't near as good a selection. So why not make your own? In this 2nd guide of the series we'll be making a bp-default child theme, which will only contain 2 files, this is to ensure your theme is as future proofed for BuddyPress as possible. Although we will be limited to the amount that can be done with these two files, you'd be surprised how much they can do.
The Beginner’s Guide to BuddyPress (Open Source Social Networking)
BuddyPress is plugin that adds social network like abilities to the acclaimed CMS WordPress. Adding features like a better profile for your blogs writers which combined turn it into a fully fledged social networking site. Most of the possibly for this great plugin aren’t even existent yet! As more and more sites start to use BuddyPress its true power, and that of WordPress is astonishing.
