Yes, you can automatically generate lots of users, messages, friends connections, groups, topics, activity items – useful for testing purpose in your BuddyPress powered WordPress site. BuddyPress Default Data not only generates data for making BuddyPress look content full website but all imported users will have their avatars, displayed via Gravatar. All auto generated data can be removed in one click.

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Today Canadadre, a SANGKRIT.net user asked us how to display first and last name in BuddyPress profile, above the @username as by default the profiles only shows @username. In this tutorial we will show you how to do so by following a few simple steps give here.

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By default BuddyPress displays all profile information (the information added via profile groups & fields) into various heading sections. In this tutorial we will show you how to break those BuddyPress groups into various jQuery tabs.

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You can easily enable your site visitors to select and join groups (from the areas of their interest) at the time of registration. This way you can easily classify your users into different groups and build better group discussion forums etc. BuddyPress Registration Groups is a free plugin that enables you to allows new BuddyPress users to select groups to join during the registration process.

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Now you know how to disable the email activation step in BuddyPress. Sometime back we have also discussed about resending the user activation links or manually activating the user accounts in WordPress/BuddyPress multisite networks. This tutorial is about a similar plugin called BuddyPress Pending Activations plugin.

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BuddyStream provides you a powerful synchronization for all popular social networking websites to BuddyPress activity stream. With free version of BuddyStream you can synchronize – Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Last.fm & Flickr social streams whereas as its premium version lets you include more social networks like Facebook, Google+, Vimeo, RSS, LinkedIn and SoundCloud.

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This tutorial is about creating a powerful and useful social networking website for business, family or whatever. You can easily create one in minutes if you a have a WordPress website. BuddyPress is a free plugin which transforms your WordPress installation in to a social network with powerful social networking features like Extended User Profiles, Activity Streams, Member Account Settings, Friend Connections, Internal Private Messaging, User Groups, Notifications, Site Tracking and there are thousands of good BuddyPress plugins available to extend your networking options & features.

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WordPress has many breadcrumb plugins and we discussed about them in a tutorial. Breadcrumbs are not just limited to blogging sites but you can also use it in your BuddyPress network. You can adds breadcrumb trail navigation to your BuddyPress site simply by adding a line of code to your template.

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Buddypress Friend of a Friend (FOAF) is a new block present inside each member’s profile page and displaying a “Friend of a Friend (FOAF)” display. BuddyPress network admins having BP friends feature enabled then your friends will have their friends. Their friends will also have friends and then again these friends will have friends. So there becomes “social paths” inside your members friends lists. It visualizes nearest path to the member whose profile is visited by another member in your BuddyPress site community and as the world is small and you’ll see that most users know each other – because their friends are friends and so on.

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Inside you BuddyPress site network, if any member or may be abot that signed up can start to send messages to each and every other member. By default there are no restrictions. Buddypress Messages Spam Blocker provides you a module for blocking spam and overcome these kinds of negative experiences.

Buddypress Messages Spam Blocker activates some restrictions to your BuddyPress community members:

• New users can send messages only 24h after their registration, so you’ll have time if bot registrations have to be removed manually
• Their are restrictions for mass mailings (mails that are sent to “friends” of the contact list are not included in this calculation): ** Users can send 6 messages maximum in 5 minutes ** Users can send 10 messages maximum in 10 minutes ** Users can send 20 messages maximum in 30 minutes ** Users can send 30 messages maximum in 60 minutes ** Users can send 35 messages maximum in 12 hours ** Users can send 45 messages maximum in 24 hours ** Users can send 50 messages maximum in 48 hours

Simply install and activate the plugin and it automatically starts working.