Tag Archives: BuddyPress

Enable Facebook Style Activity Privacy Settings In BuddyPress

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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Bump BuddyPresss Activity Streams To Top After New Comments

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.

Integrating BuddyPress Pages & Profile With WordPress Menus

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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The meta box in nav menu admin page

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An example of a custom profile menu

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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.

Easily Enable Facebook Style Notifications In BuddyPress

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’

Enable Facebook Style On Profile Private Messages In BuddyPress

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/

Infinite Scroll For BuddyPress: Automatically Load Activities As Soon The User Reaches Bottom OF The Page

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.

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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 Blog Avatar: Enable Site Admins To Upload Avatars For Their Blogs

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.

Bring Facebook POKE Feature To Your BuddyPress Network

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.

Enable Rating Feature In BuddyPress Group Forum Posts

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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How To Enable User Moderation In BuddyPress ?

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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How To Export WordPress Users & BuddyPress xProfile Data To CSV File ?

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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Ajaxify BuddyPress Member Search & Add More Useful Features To It

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:

  • Search by Friend’s Display Name
  • Search by Friend’s Username
  • Search by Friend’s Nicename
  • Sarch by Friend’s Email

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Turn BuddyPress Activity Stream InTo Facebook Style Wall Where Friends Can Post

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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rtMedia Plugin Is Now Compatible With WordPress, BuddyPress & bbPress

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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Boost Your BuddyPress Registration Options With More Useful Features

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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How To Allow BuddyPress Members Manually Control And Edit Their Profile Links ?

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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How To Limit Length Of BuddyPress Status Updates, Just Like Twitter ?

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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How To Easily Display BuddyPress Activity Tag Cloud ?

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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Stop WordPress & BuddyPress Spams Using Funny Games Captcha

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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