With BuddyPress Activity Privacy plugin you can add Facebook type activity privacy options in BuddyPress so that while posting anything new or while updating status your network users can set the privacy and make that content available for limited users. Just like Facebook’s ‘Who can see’ small icon you can add ability to restrict who can see individual activity posts shared by your BuddyPress community site members.
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Like in Facebook as soon any new comment is made, the activity automatically comes to top on the homepage of your friends. Here, we will be doing similar thing by making BuddyPress activity stream bump to top as soon any new comment reply is made.
Buddypress Bump Activity Streams To Top is a BuddyPress plugin by Gladwinput.com originally based on the OLD BuddyPress Activity Stream Bump to Top plugin which has been left unsupported. So what all you need to do is install, activate and forget Buddypress Bump Activity Streams To Top.
By default WordPress menus are not compatible with BuddyPress account menus but now you can add real menu items and make them go directly to Buddypress pages. You can add a profile dropdown with avatar, message counts, and more- fully customizable.
BP Direct Menus is an awesome plugin that completely integrates with the WordPress menu system so your theme’s menu menu styling is used.
It provides you awesome custom menu item type that lets you link to any page that requires the username as part of the url (example.com/members//messages).
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An example of a custom profile menu
The admin view of the above profile menu
Tons of tags can be used to customize the menu text: * User Info: username, firstname, lastname, displayname * BuddyPress counts: unreadmessagecount, friendcount, groupcount * BuddyPress counts that hide when zero: (unreadmessagecount), (friendcount), (groupcount) * BuddyPress/WordPress avatar: avatar, avatar-thumb, avatar-mini.
FB like notification for buddypress plugin simply updates notifications list and browser window title in BuddyPress powered network while user is away. Install and activate it. Upon activation the plugin repeatedly checks for new notifications for the logged-in user and if any new notification is found, it does 2 things:
1) Updates the browser window title( e.g: ‘members|mydomain.com’ becomes ‘(2) members|mydomain.com’ ) and blinks/switches repeatedly between the old and new title
2) Updates the notification menu: Adds new notification(if any) items to the list and updates the existing ones(if any). E.g: from ‘You have 1 new message’ to ‘You have 2 new messages’
Like in Facebook, when you click ‘Message’ button present on the profile page, a pop-up appears from where you can message to the person without leaving his/her profile. Whereas by default in BuddyPress as soon you click ‘Message’ button you get redirected to your message compose box for creating and sending message to the person.
This tutorial explains you how you can easily replaces the functionality for Public Message and Private Message buttons on profile pages so that you can send messages without leaving the profile page.
BP Profile Message UX Free plugin lets you replace the functionality for those message buttons. Using this plugin you can make things go fast, you can stay on a profile page and send private or public messages to member.
This plugin uses default WordPress ‘thickbox’ code, so it is very difficult to style. In-case you need ability to style the overlay or adjust the javascript then checkout its premium version: http://www.philopress.com/products/buddymessageux/
Similar to Facebook and Twitter you can activate automatic activity loader in your BuddyPress based network. BuddyPress Activity Autoloader is the brand new plugin that automatically activities when a user reaches at the bottom of the page. The plugin just simulates Facebook style infinite activity scroll with BuddyPress.
All you need to do is install and activate BuddyPress Activity Autoloader plugin and it will start autoloading activities when a user reaches at the bottom of the page.
BuddyPress site owners now can easily enables their site admins site to upload and use custom avatars for their blogs. BuddyPress Blog Avatar is the new BuddyPress plugin by BuddyDev developers. The plugin simply activates a new admin section feature where site admins can upload blog avatar using backend settings options.
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Install and activate the BuddyPress Blog Avatar plugin. Upon activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Settings -> Blog Avatar page and upload blog avatar, crop it and save the changes.
You must have observed this feature on Facebook. Facebook Poke is an old feature of Facebook. Now you can enable Poke in your BuddyPress site too. BuddyPress Poke is the new plugin by Anu Sharma. The plugin simply activates Poke in BuddyPress that enables your community members to poke other members, just like Facebook.
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Simply install and activate the plugin. Upon activate your logged in members will be able to poke by visiting other users profile and using poke button.
With BuddyPress Rate Forum Posts plugin your BuddyPress site memebrs can rate forum posts. It highlights good posts whereas poor posts are diminished. Highlighted karma points are visible for each site member. Note: The plugin is only for group forums, it is yet not compatible with BuddyPress site wide forums feature.
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You already know about popular BP Profile as Homepage plugin that simply redirects logged in BuddyPress users to their profile page and forces them to be there even if they try to move to HomePage, just like Facebook. This tutorial is on a new BuddyPress plugin Home Page To BP Profile + Privacy that redirects logged in users from home to profile plus it also adds post & page privacy features.
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BP List Newest Members widget provides you a beautiful widget for showing newly registered members of your BuddyPress community network.
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You can enable moderation for moderating new BuddyPress members and fight spam bots. BuddyPress Registration Options is a free WordPress plugin that allows you to do so. Simply install and activate it. After activation you can manage all its options and features from its admin section.
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Using new Export User Data plugin you can easily exports all WordPress user data, meta data and also BuddyPress xProfile data to a CSV or excel file. The plugin also includes options for exporting users by role, registration date range, usermeta option and two export formats.
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BP-SearchFriends is the new BuddyPress plugin that ajaxifies Buddypress member’s search and populate a list of your BuddyPress network friends with the following criteria:
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Now you can easily transform your BuddyPress Activity Stream Component into a Facebook-style Wall where others can posts and share things.
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BuddyPress Media plugin has now been completely re-written and re-launched with new name rtMedia for WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress. Now the plugin is also compatible with WordPress installation with or without any BuddyPress install. The plugin adds albums, audio-video encoding, privacy-sharing, front-end uploads & more cool features which works nicely on mobile-tablets devices.
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You can moderate new BuddyPress members, fight spams, set BuddyPress groups and sites and allows new members to join them from the registration page by using BuddyPress Registration Options plugin.
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BuddyPress automatically insert links to all profile filed test. For Example: You must have observed that member’s name visible in a BuddyPress profile field appears as a clickable link. Now this article explains you how you can allow you BuddyPress site members to manually edit or remove all links present in BuddyPress profile fields.
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You can force your BuddyPress site members to keep their activity stream updates limited by characters (just like Twitter) by using BP Limit Activity Length plugin.
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BuddyPress Activity tab displays the site wide list of status updates and other activity streams. This article explains you how you can get tags from each new blog posts activity and display the most commonly used ones.
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Game Captcha is a different, funny and interesting style you can use for stopping spams coming to your WordPress site. FunCaptcha – game CAPTCHA is a free WordPress plugin which is also compatible with BuddyPress & Contact Form 7 and even it works very nicely on every desktop, all browsers and mobile device systems.
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