BuddyPress and the Future of WordPress Plugins
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This document discusses BuddyPress, a WordPress plugin for building social networking sites. It can be used to add features like profiles, messaging, friends, and activity streams. BuddyPress is installed through the WordPress plugin installer and themes are set up. Additional menus and components can be added through BuddyPress functions. The document also mentions that BuddyPress and WordPress will merge in 2010 and the future of plugins.
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BuddyPress and the Future of WordPress Plugins
- 1. and the Future of WordPress Plugins by Mark Jaquith markjaquith.com coveredwebservices.com @markjaquith Saturday, September 26, 2009
- 2. BP 1.1 FTW Saturday, September 26, 2009
- 3. What is BuddyPress? • a WordPress MU plugin • a “social layer” • extensible • fond of eating its own dog food • under your control Saturday, September 26, 2009
- 4. What it can do • Extended • Groups Profiles • Wire • Private Messaging • Activity Streams • Friends • Forums • Blogs • Status updates Saturday, September 26, 2009
- 5. Cafeteria Style • Use only what you want • Could just use it for extended profiles Saturday, September 26, 2009
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- 8. Installation • Install WPMU (2.8.4a currently) • Use plugin installer to install BuddyPress • Set up themes Saturday, September 26, 2009
- 9. Theme Setup For WPMU 2.8.x: Add the themes to your themes dir: $ cd wp-content/themes/ $ ln -s ../plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-sn-parent bp-sn-parent $ ln -s ../plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default bp-default Future versions of WPMU (2.9+) will skip this step by allowing BP to tell WPMU about its default themes. Saturday, September 26, 2009
- 10. Theme Setup Enable your BP theme in WPMU Site Admin, for the main blog Activate the BP Members theme for the site's main blog Saturday, September 26, 2009
- 11. Core Files Theme Files Saturday, September 26, 2009
- 12. Pretty URLs http://bp.site/members/mark/skills/edit/buddypress/seattle Saturday, September 26, 2009
- 13. Pretty URLs http://bp.site/members/mark/skills/edit/buddypress/seattle $bp['current_component'] $bp['current_action'] $bp['action_variables'][0] $bp['action_variables'][1] Saturday, September 26, 2009
- 14. Adding Menus bp_core_new_nav_item( array( 'name' => __('Item Name', 'i18n-domain'), 'slug' => 'item-slug', 'position' => 50, 'show_for_displayed_user' => true, 'screen_function' => 'item_handler', 'default_subnav_slug' => 'index', 'item_css_id' => 'your-css-id' )); Saturday, September 26, 2009
- 15. Adding Submenus bp_core_new_subnav_item( array( 'name' => __( 'Child', 'i18n-domain' ), 'slug' => 'child-slug', 'parent_url' => $bp->loggedin_user->domain . '/item-slug', 'parent_slug' => 'item-slug', 'screen_function' => 'child_handler_function' )); Saturday, September 26, 2009
- 16. Handlers function handler_function() { // Logic here bp_core_load_template( 'item-name/index' ); // Loads item-name/index.php } Saturday, September 26, 2009
- 17. Custom components • Download the BP Skeleton Component • Learn by doing Saturday, September 26, 2009
- 18. BuddyPress 1.1 • Consolidated WP/BP themes • Crazy-simple bbPress install • Groups API • more... Saturday, September 26, 2009
- 19. bbPress Saturday, September 26, 2009
- 20. Theme Architecture • No more dual themes • BP themes are WP child themes Saturday, September 26, 2009
- 21. WP/WPMU Merge • 2010 • Will make BuddyPress available on any WordPress install • Consolidation of developer resources Saturday, September 26, 2009
- 22. BP Consulting •Nascent market •Rapidly expanding demand •Premium prices •??? •Profit Saturday, September 26, 2009
- 23. Plugins Today • Often single author • High rate of abandonment • Highly variable quality • Unendorsed • Multiple competing solutions Saturday, September 26, 2009
- 24. Canonical Plugins • Multi-author • High quality • Supported • Implicit endorsement Saturday, September 26, 2009