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Plugin Review – BuddyPress Message Attachment
BuddyPress Message Attachment is a plugin that allows files to be attached to BuddyPress private messages allowing site members to send each other files such as pdf’s.
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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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Plugin Review – BuddyPress Compliments
BuddyPress Compliments adds the ability for site members to send each other compliments containing a configurable image with additional space for a message. The site admin will need to set up each compliment type.
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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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Optimising the Performance of your BuddyPress Social Network
The load time for your page will ultimately determine how many people visit and more importantly return to your site. If people find your site to be slow then they will look for alternatives.
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Measuring the Performance of your BuddyPress Social Network
A critically important aspect of your BuddyPress Social Network is the performance of the system you have put together. Page load times is something that you need to keep an eye on since adding extra plugins to any WordPress site often results in additional Database look-ups per page, thus slowing down the page load time.
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Plugin Review – BuddyPress Extended User Groups Widget
BuddyPress Extended User Groups Widget is a plugin that will display a list of groups that the user is a member of or a list of groups that they manage. There is also a version of this plugin that will display the same for the member whose profile is being viewed.
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Changing the content of BuddyPress Emails
Another aspect of managing your site is to make sure all of the various emails that BuddyPress sends out are right for you. These email templates are located at Dashboard>>Emails and it is here that you go to edit their contents.
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Plugin Review – BuddyPress Username Changer
BuddyPress Username Changer is a simple plugin that allows BuddyPress site members to change their WordPress Username.
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Changing the text used in BuddyPress and other Plugins
This article will show you how to change labels and messages used in BuddyPress and introduces the WordPress way to perform language localisation, in this case we will be localising your own local language.