BuddyPress for Dummies (ISBN - 0470568011)

339 Pages·2021·8.54 MB·English

Lisa Sabin-Wilson
Author of WordPress For Dummies

Learn to:
• Set up the WordPress® foundation to run
BuddyPress

• Navigate fun features such as status
updates and activity streams

• Customize BuddyPress with your
own style

• Bring your social community
subscriptions together in BuddyPress

BuddyPress

Making Everything Easier!™

Open the book and find:

• Cool things you can do with a
BuddyPress site

• Requirements for a hosting
environment

• Where to find and download free
themes

• What you can do with widgets

• Ways for members to create and
manage their own forums

• How member avatars are used

• Tips on using member group
features

• Ten BuddyPress sites to check out

Lisa Sabin-Wilson has been developing and designing with WordPress
since 2002. She eagerly embraced BuddyPress as an additional tool for the
clients of her blog design company, E.Webscapes Design Studio. Lisa is a
regular speaker and panelist at blogging conferences, including SXSW and
WordCamps.

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Get your buddies together
with BuddyPress and create
your own social community

Got a cause, a hobby, or some other obsession you can’t
wait to share with a like-minded community? BuddyPress is
the buddy you need to get that community started. Here’s
how to get BuddyPress up and running on your WordPress
Web site and use its free tools and themes to host a social
network devoted to your pet projects, right on your site.

• Full court press — start by obtaining a Web hosting provider and
installing WordPress, then install and configure BuddyPress

• It’s your domain — register your domain name and use FTP to
transfer necessary files

• Member options — explore BuddyPress features for creating
profiles, avatars, and community friendships

• Growing with the group — integrate members’ blogs, set up
member groups, and add discussion forums with BuddyPress

• Custom Buddy — expand BuddyPress themes, personalize them
with CSS, and learn how to create your own

• It’s on the wire — promote community interaction through wire
postings for individuals or groups

• Gather the gang — integrate Twitter®, Facebook®, Flickr®, You-
Tube®, and other social media into your community

• Go farther — discover third-party plugins that add more options

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BuddyPress

FOR
DUMmIES

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by Lisa Sabin-Wilson

BuddyPress

FOR
DUMmIES

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BuddyPress For Dummies®

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About the Author

Lisa Sabin-Wilson is a creative designer and owner of E.Webscapes Design
Studio (www.ewebscapes.com) and has worked hard at providing her cli-
ents with custom designed WordPress blogs and Web sites since 2003. Lisa
is a frequent speaker at WordCamps and other national conferences, such
as South by Southwest Interactive and meet ups local to her Southeastern
Wisconsin home, like Milwaukee’s Web development group, Web414. Lisa
is highly regarded as a WordPress expert who specializes in helping users
take full control over their Web publishing efforts through the use of the
WordPress platform. She reaches thousands of people worldwide with her
WordPress services, skills, and experience.

Lisa is the author of the popular WordPress For Dummies, fi rst published in
2007. Her experience and knowledge of BuddyPress came from the rapidly
emerging popularity of the platform; as more and more of her own clients
started requesting BuddyPress integration on their Web sites, Lisa had no
choice but to dig right in and fi gure out what it was all about! She’s glad she
did — it’s a dynamic addition to any WordPress-powered Web site.

Lisa operates a few blogs online, all of which are powered by WordPress. Her
personal blog (lisasabin-wilson.com) has been online since February
of 2002 and her design business, E.Webscapes (ewebscapes.com), has
been online since 1999. She also operates a successful Web hosting service,
BlogsAbout Hosting (blogsabout.com), which caters to blogs and bloggers
on a global scale, with an emphasis on WordPress users.

When she is not designing, or consulting with her clients, you can usually
fi nd her either at her favorite coffee shop sipping espresso, on a mountaintop
somewhere hitting the slopes with her family, or 100 feet beneath the ocean
waters, scuba diving with her husband and swimming with the fi shes.

Lisa is actively involved in online social communities and you can fi nd her on
Twitter: @LisaSabinWilson or Facebook at http://facebook.com/lisa-
sabinwilson.

Dedication

My family deserves all of the credit, for their love, support, and encourage-
ment. My husband, Chris Wilson, gets an extra mention for being my rock
and my reliable sounding board.