2. Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
What’s BuddyPress ?
BuddyPress will transform a vanilla
installation of WordPress MU into a
social network platform.
3. Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
What’s DEV ?
DEV is the abbreviation of
DEVelopers
4. Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
What’s BuddyPressDEV ?
BuddyPressDEV has been the first
community of BuddyPress developers
that shares code to extend
BuddyPress
5. Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
Why BuddyPressDEV ?
• Need a community for developers
• Need new plugins for BuddyPress*
• Need a support for 3rd part plugins
• Need a 3d part plugins list
6. Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
What’s now BPDEV ?
• Community of BP’ developers
• Home of BPDEV Plugins
• Support site for BP & BPDEV Plugins
• Project of an italian guru developer
rockstar engineer student
8. Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
What are BPDEV Plugins ?
BPDEV Plugins are a set of free
plugins, that will extend the features
of BuddyPress to a new or existing
installation.
9. Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
BPDEV Plugins List
CORE
+
WIDGETS VISUAL EDITOR
EXTRA GROUPS ADMIN
AUTOSUGGEST XMLRPC
NOSPAM FLICKR
YOUTUBE SUBSCRIBE
THEMES OTHER PLUGINS
10. Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
BuddyPress Components
CORE
+
BLOG TRACKER GROUPS
EXTENDED PROFILES WIRE
PRIVATE MESSAGES ACTIVITY
FRIENDS STATUS
THEMES ALBUMS
11. Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
BPDEV Plugins List
CORE
+
WIDGETS VISUAL EDITOR
EXTRA GROUPS ADMIN
AUTOSUGGEST XMLRPC
NOSPAM FLICKR
YOUTUBE SUBSCRIBE
THEMES OTHER PLUGINS
19. Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
Other BPDEV Plugins
NOSPAM XMLRPC
Filter spam in wire & XMLRPC Support to
in bp components and BuddyPress components
spammer registrations
THEME SUBSCRIBE
Stylesheet manager
INVITE FRIENDS Invite friends via email/
by Giovanni Caputo facebook and other
internet services
20. Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
BPDEV License?
GPL
It means free, not without cost
Don’t worry, they are free
21. Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
Why plugins are free?
• Community contributes
• Someone donates to fix bugs
• Someone pays me to write a new plugin
22. Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
What about paid plugins?
• Asking for a plugin is good
• Donating for a plugin is better
• Paying for a plugin is the best
23. Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
What about paid plugins?
• Donate to have full support and more
plugins
• Donate to sustain development of free
code
24. Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
BPDEV Support?
FORUMS TRAC
Ask support to me Report Bugs and
and the community feature requests
FREE. AND THE PAID ONE ?
27. Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
BPDEV Translation?
POT
Thanks to Slava AU a member of
BPDEV, Plugins are now translated
in more than 5 languages!
28. Nicola Greco*
BuddyPressDEV BPDEV - bp-dev.org
nicolagreco.com
Some uses of BPDEV
★ Themes for each user/group
★ Spot sites ( like SpotKenya )
★ Requests between 2 sites with XMLRPC
★ Mark/unmark mu blogs as favourite
and create ranking