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Hardening BuddyPress Against Spammers

One of the first major issues that hits anyone who has set up a public social networking site with BuddyPress is the about of spam that you have to deal with. Unless you have taken steps to prevent spammers getting access to your site then your life could be hell! This article explains how to configure your WordPress/BuddyPress site in order to avoid the maximum amount of spam.

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Pro Plugin Review – Content Aware Sidebars Pro

Content Aware Sidebars Pro is a WordPress plugin that allows you to create page specific sidebars that replace or merge with the default theme sidebars. The plugin comes with built in support for BuddyPress pages. Content Aware Sidebars Pro has been created for those sites that want to create a unique look on some or all pages by allowing for page specific sidebar content.

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Changing the default behaviour of BuddyPress

There are a lot of things that happen by default in BuddyPress that you may have a need to change. For example the types of activities displayed in the activity pages, how many activity items are displayed per page etc. These things can be changed, but you will need to have some knowledge of coding, or be applying a code snippet that you’ve been given.

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BuddyPress Themes

A theme is essentially a design for a website, it defines the page layout as well as items such as colours and fonts. Themes work by using templates which create each page on your site. When we talk about BuddyPress themes then this means that BuddyPress functionality has been added to the theme in additional to what is offered in a standard WordPress Theme.

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