Category Archives: BuddyPress

How To Add BuddyPress Menus On WordPress Navigation?

By default BuddyPress menus such as personal activity, notifications, profile, settings and messages are automatically added to WordPress admin bar.

But now there is no need to stick with WordPress admin tool bar on frontend just because it shows BuddyPress networking menus. Because now you can easily add BuddyPress’s personal and account menu items to any menu location using built-in WordPress navigation settings.

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How To Show Mutual Friends On BuddyPress?

Just like Facebook, now you can display mutual friends to your BuddyPress website members in one click easy setup.

Mutual friends are the people who are registered on your BuddyPress website and are friends between your and the other person whose profile you’re viewing.

For instance, if you’re friends with A and B is friends with A, then A will be shown as a mutual friend when you’re viewing B’s profile.

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Enable Voting For WordPress & BuddyPress Content Types

You can add a recommendation engine to enable voting, helpful or like-unlike feature on your WordPress or BuddyPress powered website. This will add voting options for pages, posts, custom post types, comments in WordPress.

For BuddyPress it enables same options for activity streams, groups, member profiles. Is also compatible with WooCommerce products, bbPress topics, posts and much more.

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BuddyPress Secure Passwords – Force Users To Choose At-least Medium Strength Password

By default BuddyPress and WordPress accepts all password types, no matter how much secure they are. Although it displays the strength of chosen password but it doesn’t forces any users to create a strong password.

In this lesson you will learn about forcing new users on your BuddyPress site to choose at least a medium strength password during registration.

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Creating Global, Unified Search For All BuddyPress Components

Now you can add a special search box for searching BuddyPress site components along with pages, posts and other custom post types (optional) of your choice. In this lesson you will learn how to create an all in one unified search bar with a live dropdown of results and suggestions in your BuddyPress site.  Continue reading Creating Global, Unified Search For All BuddyPress Components

Set Custom Thumbnail And oEmbed Size On BuddyPress Activity Plus Stream

BuddyPress Activity Plus is a popular BuddyPress plugin that allows members to share videos, phones and links on their activity stream. The plugin works good but earlier there were problems regarding its small photo embed size on activity stream.

But now no worries, the latest version of this plugin allows you to set a custom thumbnail image size which is shown when a user posts any photo or video file on BuddyPress activity stream.  Continue reading Set Custom Thumbnail And oEmbed Size On BuddyPress Activity Plus Stream

Set First Name Letter As Profile Picture On BuddyPress/WordPress Sites

Not everyone has a Gravatar account and not every user uploads avatar on your BuddyPress community website.

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In this lesson you will learn how to say good bye to mystery man and automatically use first alphabet of user’s name as profile picture in your BuddyPress powered WordPress site or regular WordPress site.  Continue reading Set First Name Letter As Profile Picture On BuddyPress/WordPress Sites

Enable Profile Page Covers In Your BuddyPress Networking Website

Just like Facebook, Google+ and now Twitter you can allow your BuddyPress site members to use profile page covers/banners on their profile pages.

In this lesson we will show you how you can easily enable this awesome feature in your BuddyPress community website.  Continue reading Enable Profile Page Covers In Your BuddyPress Networking Website