BP Who Favorited is a simple plugin that adds the profile images of the last three users to favorite a particular activity item.
BP Required Field reminder is a simple plugin that enforces required profile fields by redirecting any user on logging in to their Edit Profile page, it also highlights the required firld in red.
BuddyPress Restrict Group Creation is a plugin that allows site admin to be selective over who is able to create groups on their site.
BP Profile Shortcodes Extra maintains the features introduced in the original plugin, it provides shortcodes to display the username, display name, profile url, avatar photo etc. but in addition it provides the ability to display the users cover image and also a collection of cover, avatar and @username that allows a profile header to be created on any page in your site. You can either specify the member to be displayed or the shortcodes will display details of the user that is viewing the page.
The plugin creates an email blacklist area in the Dashboard>>Settings>>BuddyPress>>Options page allowing you to add the email domains you would like blacklisted. You can also set the rejection message and an extra message for the registration page explaining the restriction.
BP Post Status adds three new Post Status options; alongside the usual publishing options, the post publishing box now supports Members Only, Friends Only and Group Post statuses, with Group Post providing a drop-down of available groups to assign the post to. It also adds a group posts tab in each group and provides the option to set a post as the group homepage.
Setting up WordPress ready for BuddyPress
Before installing BuddyPress it’s best to get your basic WordPress installation configured correctly, this in itself can be quite a complex task and there are going to be many aspects of this that I will not have space here to go into in detail but what I hope to achieve in this post is to give you a basic idea of what is needed and to get yourself in a position to run and install BuddyPress on a firm platform.
January 5, 2019
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