Social Network

Plugin Review – BuddyPress Groups Extras

BuddyPress Groups Extras is a group plugin that allows group admin to add two additions tabs to the group. One page, called “Extras” is composed of fields that can be set up and edited by the group admin. The other page called “Pages” (or any name) is composed of one or more fully editable pages. The concept is to give group owners the ability to add additional information to the group, such as adding a full page description with images and videos.

By Venutius, 8 yearsJanuary 11, 2017 ago

BuddyPress

Plugin Review – BP Search

BP Search is a BuddyPress plugin that adds a dynamic drop down lookup list to the search box on the BuddyPress Members page.

By Venutius, 8 years ago

BuddyPress

Plugin Review – Honorific BuddyPress Usernames

Plugin Review – Honorific BuddyPress Usernames https://wordpress.org/plugins/honorific-buddypress-members-name/ Version Tested: V 1.0 Honorific BuddyPress Usernames is a plugin that adds honorary titles such as Mr, Mrs, Dr etc/ to the username of a BuddyPress site member. Installation is simply a case of installing and activating the plugin. Once yu have done Read more…

By Venutius, 8 years ago

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.

By Venutius, 8 years ago

BuddyPress

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.

By Venutius, 8 yearsDecember 12, 2016 ago

BuddyPress

Troubleshooting your BuddyPress Network

With WordPress/BuddyPress typically problems arise from three areas – Plugin conflicts, Theme issues and Software Bugs. if something is not working then typically you would take the following steps:

By Venutius, 8 yearsDecember 7, 2016 ago

BuddyPress

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.

By Venutius, 8 yearsDecember 4, 2016 ago

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.

By Venutius, 8 yearsDecember 3, 2016 ago

BuddyPress

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.

By Venutius, 8 yearsDecember 2, 2016 ago

BuddyPress

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.

By Venutius, 8 yearsNovember 30, 2016 ago