February 26, 2019 — Some of my friends were not allowed on Facebook, but we wanted a place where we could all communicate, like Facebook. So I built a BuddyPress site.

December 21, 2018 — While you can use BuddyPress to create a feature packed community site in mere minutes, it is often overwhelming for both administrators and users alike. I’ll share some tools and techniques that you can use to build your BuddyPress community while maintaining your sanity.

May 31, 2018 — In this session, attendees will learn about the basic features of some of the most popular and powerful tools for making a WordPress site into a community hub: Multisite, BuddyPress, Commons-in-a-Box, and bbPress. We’ll also discuss how and whether to offer particular functionalities with one or more of these tools:

* Collecting specific user data (BuddyPress Extended Profile Fields)
* Letting users talk to one another on your site (forums, groups, private messages)
* Allowing users to create their own sub-communities on your community site (sites with Multisite, Groups with BuddyPress)
* Displaying user directories and profiles
* One-way communication with users (dashboard messages, mass emails, enabling email subscriptions to blog posts)

March 8, 2018 — While you can use BuddyPress to create a feature packed community site in mere minutes, it is often overwhelming for both administrators and users alike. I’ll share some tools and techniques that you can use to build your BuddyPress community while maintaining your sanity.

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August 31, 2017 — BuddyPress is a community website plugin for WordPress and can be used to build things from social networks to intranets to education sites and anything in-between that is build around a community. We will dissect the features of BuddyPress and some use cases for them as well as look at examples of BuddyPress sites in the wild. Come see what the heck BuddyPress actually is and how you can use it to build powerful community-based websites for you or your clients.

August 31, 2017 — Ever think of using WordPress to manage a project, be a private communication board, or even have a forum? This presentation looks at novel and unique ways to use WordPress beyond a simple blog or website by using BuddyPress, bbPress, and P2. We’ll cover these and more uses that truly push WordPress to its limits.

June 21, 2017 — We can see more and more examples of great online communities built with WordPress and BuddyPress. But people installing BP are facing a big challenge in knowing how to customize their website to achieve that. What to start with ? How to change the templates ? How to change the navigation ? How to hide some functionnalities, or add others ?
This workshop will demonstrate a step by step example, and show some ways to customize your BP with snippets of code, using the many hooks BP offers.

– Choosing BP options and profile fields in the admin area
– Creating a user menu using BP built-in functionnalities
– BP templates hierarchy
– Hooks to modify BP navigation and subnav, and labels
– Hooks to add custom activities in BP activity streams
– some useful plugins to extend your BP

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March 22, 2017 — Что такое BuddyPress, его эволюцию за последние годы, основной функционал. Покажу, на сколько просто им пользоваться и настраивать. Его новый фокус (пивот), который был сделан в июле 2016. Приведу примеры тех сайтов, где он будет полезен, и тех, где он не нужен.

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December 12, 2016 — Lisa Sabin-Wilson, Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder at WebDevStudios will talk about how they leverage the power of community with the BuddyPress plugin to build intranet portals for government and business operations and training.

December 5, 2016 — This talk will focus on what I’ve learned about BuddyPress since it was in alpha seven years ago. Here are some of the key touchpoints:

Quick history and evolution of BuddyPress
When you should use BuddyPress — when the site requirements match up
When you should not use BuddyPress — red flags
What add-ons are available for BuddyPress
Helpful resources to get started with BuddyPress

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