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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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.
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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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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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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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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Just like WordPress MultiSite installations you can easily adds a new, sortable, column in your WordPress site users list showing the date they got registered.
Easily apply comment moderation blacklist on registration and prevent spammers for registering on your WordPress site.
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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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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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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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A modification has been made to Buddypress Like plugin. New Buddypress Like Dislike plugin supports both like or unlike features at the same time. Furthermore it doesn’t really add ‘unlikes’ count for any activity bit rather it removes the like. Basically it works as ‘like’ and ‘remove like’.
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Allow custom fields in selected BuddyPress Groups, create various types of custom fields like radio buttons, select, input, text area etc, edit fields data, show or hide pages where fields will be displayed, reorder fields, create custom group pages using WordPress RichEditor and more using BuddyPress Group Extras.
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Adds social sharing buttons on your BuddyPress site to let members and visitors share content on popular networks like Twitter and Facebook etc.
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Make your BuddyPress network mobile optimized. BuddyMobile is free Mobile theme for BuddyPress sites. It is optimized for viewing on iPhone, iPod touch and also works on Android and some Blackberry devices.
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Obtain BuddyPress components stats about the most active users in your BuddyPress site’s Forums, Groups, Blogs, Comments, Activity, Friends.
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Allows your BuddyPress community members to add a BuddyPress bookmarklet on their browser so that they can easily share content to their Activity streams just like Google Plus, Facebook and Twitter etc.
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Like in WordPress multisite you can add a sortable column to the users list on WordPress Single Site installation for showing registration date.
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You might have seen in Facebook and other popular sites, they allows you to upload your avatar from webcam. if you are running BuddyPress site then you can add webcam avatar feature in your site too.
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Whenever someone registers on your BuddyPress site you can automatically send a welcome message, friend request, group invitation and also you can redirect to a custom page using Welcome Pack plugin for BuddyPress. You can do a lot more, go through this tutorial.
Now you can reserve places for unregistered members of your BuddyPress site by using their email addresses.
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