Here are some free plugins that offer enhancements to the member profiles of your BuddyPress network.
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Category Archives: BuddyPress
How To Make And Display Featured Members In Your BuddyPress Site ?
Now you can feature selected members in your BuddyPress site and display them using shortcode. This is a popular feature used in various high ranking websites like Bloggers.Com and now you can easily extend your BuddyPresss install with this new feature.
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Easily Add Ability For BuddyPress Members To Set Who Can Read Their Status Update
You must have observed this new feature of Facebook, now while posting any status update on Facebook Timeline you can manually set who can view your stream. Now you can enable same type of feature in your BuddyPress site.
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Allows BuddyPress Members To Share Files By Using InBuilt WordPress Post Attachment Features
BuddyDrive is brand new BuddyPress 1.7 plugin that enables your BuddyPress site members to share file(s) by using in built WordPress post attachment features.
New BuddyPress Update Makes It Compatible With All WordPress Themes
Few days back BuddyPress community released new BuddyPress update (version 1.7). It comes packed with powerful compatibility with all WordPress themes like earlier it was introduced for bbPress2.0. Now it has become easy for all WordPress users to add functionality of social network without sacrificing the theme and layout of their WordPress site.
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How To Add All BuddyPress My Account Links To A Sidebar Widget ?
Now when BuddyPress is activated its all Account Links automatically get integrated with WordPress Admin Bar. Now BuddyPress doesn’t provides any BuddyBar to its new users. In old days there were many free BuddyPress plugins available for customizing BuddyBar and hence it was easy for the site owners to customize BuddyBar in their own style. But now you only get WordPress admin bar and there is not a single plugin available that provides you full customization of WP Admin Bar visually in a user-friendly way. There are some good plugins they only provides you tweaks unless you are very good in writing CSS.
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How To Install BuddyPress Plugins From WordPress Admin Area?
BuddyPress plugins are also hosted on WordPress Plugins Repository. Although we can easily filter BuddyPress plugins by selecting its tag from WordPress Admin Area’s Add New Plugin page but now you have one more easy feature to add in your Add New Plugins page, this will allows you to quickly and easily install any BuddyPress plugin hosted on WordPreess.Org
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How To Get Updated With Latest BuddyPress Hacks, Themes, Plugins And More Goodies ?
BPMail.Me is BuddyPress newsletter site that provides you with all latest BuddyPress community news, articles, hacks, plugins, themes and more. This is best thing for all BuddyPress bloggers who used to post article on new BuddyPress features and events. All you need to do is visit BPMail.Me and subscribe to latest BuddyPress news and goodies.
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Force BuddyPress Users To Complete Required Profile Fields
Now by using new BuddyPress plugin you can force your BuddyPress site members to complete the required fields of their profiles.
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Now You Can Allow Your BuddyPress Site Members To Send A Personalized Message With Friendship Requests
You might have observed this feature in Facebook, it offers its users to send a private message while making new friend requests to other Facebook users. Now you can extend BuddyPress friendship features by allowing your BuddyPress community members to send a personalized message with their friend request.
Now You Can Add An Avatar Suggestions List In BuddyPress Network
Today iMath launched a new BuddyPress plugin that allows site admins to add an avatar suggestions list that lets your BuddyPress community members to select one of the pre-loaded avatar from their profile page. The list only shows up to users who hasn’t uploaded any profile avatar.
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Commons In A Box – New Powerful Platform For BuddyPress Community Websites
BuddyPress core developers launched new plugin ‘Commons In A Box (beta version)’. It is a pack of popular BuddyPress plugins that most of the BuddyPress users install after installing BuddyPress and also one brand new BuddyPress theme. So now you can have them easily by installing this plugin.
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Best News Bar Plugins For Displaying Blog Post & Twitter Updates In WordPress BuddyPress Sites
WordPress users can display blog post, custom post type, RSS feed or custom post type news using a highly customizable bar at the top or bottom of their sites. Whereas BuddyPress users can display all BuddyPress network activity using a dynamic bar at the bottom of their site.
How To Insert BuddyPress Specific Data Inside Posts, Widgets And Themes ?
Inserting BuddyPress specific data in posts, pages, widgets etc means you can display specific BuddyPress stuff wherever you like in your website simply by using shortcodes.
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How To Add Extra Configuration Settings In Your BuddyPress Site ?
Easily add small-small tweaks in your BuddyPress site without adding many hacks in theme’s function file but by using a single plugin. BP Extended Settings adds an extra tab in BuddyPress settings page showing some more configuration settings for BuddyPress site admins.
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How To Make Whole BuddyPress Network Private Excluding Front Page ?
Make all your BuddyPress powered community private. You can select which pages you want to exclude from protection so that only selected pages come visible to logged out users. For example: If you run a blog within your BuddyPress site then keeping only your blog public and other things private is possible or you want to make only registration and home pages public so that people can come in and join your site without seeing what is happening there inside.
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How To Categorize BuddyPress Groups By Assigning Tags To Them ?
Learn categorizing BuddyPress site groups by assigning tags to them. You can easily show a clickable tag cloud above the group listings or as a sidebar widget.
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Log The IP Address Of Newly Registered Users In WordPress Multisite
Sometime people create multiple fake accounts in your WordPress site like they do in Facebook. You can fight back by logging their IP addresses and this can be done easily by using Register IP plugin in your site.
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Make BuddyPress Activity Streams Live Like Twitter
By default for viewing latest activity on BuddyPress site you need to refresh whole page. User experience can be made better by making BuddyPress activity stream live like Twitter so that everytime any of your member posts anything can come visible for everybody instantly without even refreshing the page.
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Easiest Way To Add Custom Default Avatars In WordPress-BuddyPress Sites
I already discussed about WordPress hacks for adding custom default avatar in WordPress-BuddyPress Sites. Now I am telling a quick and easy option of using plugin. Kailey Lampert‘s free WordPress plugin simply allows you to change default WordPress avatar i.e. Mystery Man to something else, may be your site’s logo etc.
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How To Enable File Attachment In BuddyPress Private Messages ?
If you are running a BuddyPress networking site then you can enable your members to send file attachments with their private messages.
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