BuddyPress
Planning your BuddyPress Social Network
During this article I would like to explore the steps you would take at the very beginning of you social networking journey with BuddyPress.
BuddyPress
Plugin Review – BuddyPress Extended Friendship Request
BuddyPress Extended Friendship Request is a simple plugin that adds a short message to accompany any friendship requests sent between site members.
Chat
Plugin Review – Wise Chat
Wise chat is a simple chat plugin that installs a chat page on your WordPress site allowing site users both registered and non-registered to interact together via a basic chat application.
BuddyPress
Plugin Review – IflyChat
IflyChat is a chat plugin for BuddyPress social networking sites, it creates a close approximation to the chat used on the Ning Social platform which features “Chat on any page” as a feature, which allows users to browse around the site without having to leave the chat conversation.
BuddyPress
Plugin Review – Eonet Live Notifications
One of the issues with BuddyPress is that notifications are not “Live”, in other words, in order to see if you have any notifications, you need to refresh your web page, this detracts from the dynamism of the site. Eonet Live Notifications fixes this by introducing a live notification in the form of a pop-up that shows up in the bottom right corner of the page, informing you that you have a new notification and providing a click link to view that item.
BuddyPress
Plugin Review – BP Required Field Notification
BP Required Field Notification is a BuddyPress plugin that prevents members from accessing the site until they have filled in any required fields within their profile.
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.
BuddyPress
Plugin Review – BuddyPress Extend Fields
BuddyPress Extend Fields is a plugin that adds additional information fields to a group.
BuddyPress
Plugin Review – Simple BuddyPress Profile Privacy
Simple BuddyPress Profile Privacy is a plugin that allows site members to choose who can see all aspects on their profile as well as giving them an option to hide themselves from the members directory.