Activity
Plugin Review – BP Activity Share
BP Activity Share is a plugin that allows users to share the activity updates of others, similar to how this can be done on Facebook.
BuddyPress
Testing, Configuring and Getting to know your BuddyPress Site
The combination of WordPress and BuddyPress is a powerful and complex mix, it will take you some time playing with all of the features in order for you to come up with your ideal site. In this article I would like to take you through the basics of getting to know your site and customising it for your purposes, in future articles I will cover adding additional features to your site in order to further customise your installation.
Activity
Plugin Review – BuddyPress Checkins
BuddyPress Checkins is a plugin that allows BuddyPress users to check in their location as part of an activity update.
Activity
Plugin Review – WP ULike
WP ULike is a WordPress plugin that also supports BuddyPress, bbPress and a number of other plugins, it aims to be a comprehensive “Like” system for your site and enables site users to like a wide range of content types, including posts, forum topics and replies, comments and activity updates.
Activity
Plugin Review – BuddyPress Activity Social Share
BuddyPress Activity Social Share is a simple plugin that adds various social share options to BuddyPress Actvity items.
BuddyPress
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.
BuddyPress
Getting more specific about your Sidebars
The information that is displayed in Sidebars is an important aspect of your website, one that can be tailored for each individual page if you wish, though this aspect is one that will tend to make your site setup more complex. In my search for better ways of displaying more relevant information with each page viewed what I have settled upon is a solution using two sidebar management plugins, these are Content Aware Sidebars and Display Widgets.
Activity
Plugin Review – BuddyPress Sticker
BuddyPress Sticker is a simple plugin that adds the ability for site members to add stickers – emoticons to there activity updates.
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Plugin Review – Crowdmentions
The BuddyPress @Mentions is it’s system for sending site members a public message, similar to writing on a users wall in Facebook since the mention will turn up in that users activity stream. @Mentions is normally a one to one thing, if you want to have more than one person in your mention then you must include @member1, @member2 etc. In your activity update.
BuddyPress
Adding a Points System to your BuddyPress site with MyCred
Mycred is a full featured system for awarding points based on member participation at your site, the types of activities that result is points being awarded are entirely configurable and you can install add-ons such as Badges that allow you to create badges to be awarded when certain points levels have been attained. For all it’s power MyCred is pretty simple to install and configure.