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.
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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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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.
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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.
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How to hide Send Private Message and Send Public Message
Sometimes it becomes prudent to make it more difficult for site members to email other members, for example where you are suffering from spammers.
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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.