String Replacement; or, how to not hack the core.
A common requirement for a BuddyPress site is to change some of the default text around the site. If the text originates in a theme, it is straightforward to create a child theme and make the change...
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Feature Your Forums And Get Them Noticed!
The forums on our Buddypress sites are the heart and soul of our communities, but how do we get them noticed more by our visitors and how do we keep those visitors up to date with the latest that’s...
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Creating a custom Front Page for your BuddyPress Groups
Creating a custom homepage for your group pages is a lot easier then you might think. This Trick will tell you exactly how to create one for one of your groups, that can be easily managed from your...
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Using Dropbox as a CDN to host your BuddyPress or WordPress Theme!
Situation: Your BuddyPress website is currently hosted on a crappy shared server. Your site performs pretty badly and you would like to speed things up without paying for and configuring a CDN. The...
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5 Great BuddyPress Quick Tips from our Community
BP-Tricks has only launched a week ago, but we’ve already receive quite a few great tricks to spice up your BuddyPress site. Here are some of this weeks submitted quick tips: Tip 1: Using a custom...
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Manage group creation by creating a group request form
If you want to simply manage group creation on your BuddyPress site, this Trick will show you how to add a form that will send an email containing a request from the member. To achieve this we’ll need...
View ArticleHow to give every BuddyPress component it’s own dedicated sidebar
Hi folks! It’s been a while since I’ve been able to write awesome BuddyPress tutorials. It’s not because I got bored with BuddyPress, there was simply too much BuddyPress related stuff going on. I...
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The perfect CDN setup for BuddyPress using MaxCDN and W3 Total Cache
For the last year or so the term CDN has been thrown around in almost every single discussion about speeding up websites. It seems like all the cool kids use one, and for a good reason. a CDN is a...
View ArticleMaking BuddyPress compatible with the WordPress SEO plugin from Yoast
The WordPress SEO plugin from Yoast is pretty much the only SEO solution you need for your WordPress site. It has become a default plugin in all my WordPress and BuddyPress projects. The only issue is...
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BuddyPress Shortcodes Plugin
A while back I thought about ways to make BuddyPress integrate with the regular posts and pages within WordPress better. I had no idea to properly display BuddyPress information in posts, sidebar or...
View ArticleTwo BuddyPress login tricks you should be using for your community
It’s often in the small things, and this post will give you two small but valuable tricks that make the lives of your community members a lot easier. Trick #1: Automatically check the “Remember me” box...
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