August 23, 2011

October 30, 2010

October 30, 2010

July 10, 2010 — This is an introduction by Lisa Sabin-Wilson into the use of BuddyPress on an existing WordPress-powered web site, including a comprehensive overview of its features, installation, setting up features and extended member profiles, and customizing your theme for BuddyPress by using its inherent Parent/Child theme framework. This session also gives plugin recommendations for BuddyPress and a showcase of existing installations.

Video provided by Blaze Streaming Media.

June 12, 2010

January 23, 2010 — Boone Gorges talks about the structure of BuddyPress and how the parts work together. He demonstrates a few examples of how you can use plugins, config files, and child themes to make BuddyPress work for your unique and freakish purposes.

Special thanks to the Microsoft NERD Center for hosting WordCamp Boston.

November 15, 2009 — Andy Peatling asks, “Why Use BuddyPress” and then answers the question in this five-minute talk from WordCamp NYC.

Video courtesy ISOC-NY.

October 27, 2009 — Matt Mullenweg talks about WordPress, how open source creates ownership, the importance of community to WordPress, the role of BuddyPress in social media, and the infectious nature of the open source mindset.

September 26, 2009 — Learn what BuddyPress is, what it can do, how to set it up, integrate it, and extend it. Get a preview of some of the features coming in BuddyPress 1.1, and learn why it is to your advantage as a WordPress developer to incorporate BuddyPress consulting into the services you offer in this session from Mark Jaquith. Also covered: why BuddyPress is a good model for the future of the WordPress plugin landscape.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.

July 11, 2009 — Andy Peatling of Automattic talks about the WP social networking system BuddyPress at WordCamp Montreal and gives practical advice for people considering it as a platform.

Video production by Arthur Cormon of TV McGill.