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• Introduce what BuddyPress is…
• Provide a brief history of where it started…
• Touch on where it is today…
• Travel through time…
• Talk about how you can influence its future…
• Provides a “social layer” to a WordPress(MU) installation
• One plugin that includes several separate but equally functional components
• Turns your website “inside out”
• Shifts the focus away from soapbox content and towards community driven user activity
• If you ask me “can BuddyPress do $task” I will reply “Yes”
• Started out as a super simple user profile plugin for WPMU
• Originally relied on the WP admin area for most functionality
• Originally relied on the WP admin area for most functionality
• Before launch, dashboard dependency was reduced and control given almost entirely to the theme (blog concept pictured)
• Original concept vs. Almost final concept
• Started as a simple plugin built out of client need
• Became an official Automattic project in March, 2008
• First public beta December 15, 2008
• Turned 1.0 on April 30, 2009 (wooo hoooO!)
• BuddyPress helps developers learn and use BuddyPress
• Current stable version is 1.1.3
• Consists of 8 separate components to carry out specific social networking type tasks:
(Friends, Groups, Messaging, Wire, Activity, Forums, Status, Profiles)
• Comes with example theme to jump-start development
• A growing codex of resources (that still needs some TLC)
• Doubled the size of the core development team from 1 to 2! :D
• Merge the activity streams, status updates, and wire together into one mega awesome stream/status/wire widget…
• Include a new and more intuitive default theme.
( Sneak preview below… Expect more organization… )
• More profile field attributes via metadata…• Example:
• Text box auto links to twitter account• Limit text box length• Developers: Set actions and filters on each field
• Filter members by profile field
• Site and user privacy and permission controls
• Inappropriate content flagging
• Quick blog post form via user profile/theme
• Support for attachments and user photo galleries
• Bulk accept/reject friendship requests and group invites
• Gravatar upload directly from BuddyPress profile
• Repurpose the BuddyPress.org group ability to focus more on developers, mentoring, and advancing the platform
• Improve the BuddyPress codex
• Try to take over the world…
• http://buddypress.org/forums/If you already know a lot about BuddyPress, sign up and help someone else out.
If you want to know more, sign up and we’ll help you learn.
• http://codex.buddypress.orgDevelopers… Have some spare time? Login to the codex and start updating pages.
• http://trac.buddypress.orgFound a bug? Let us know here! You can even fix the bug yourself, gain some props on a changeset, and contribute to the advancement of the whole platform!