1. “ How to use Word Press MU and Buddy Press to create a scalable community website for Impact BC” By Julian Barabas January 2010
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11. What is Word Press MU? WordPress Multi-User (WordPress MU, or just WPMU) is a fork of WordPress created to allow simultaneous blogs to exist within one installation. WordPress MU makes it possible for anyone with a website to host their own blogging community, control, and moderate all the blogs from a single dashboard.
18. Browse and Add New Friends How does it work? Members of a BuddyPress enabled installation can be connected together by one member adding another as a “friend” and then the other member accepting the friendship request. Each member has a visible list of their friends on the site. Friends lists are browsable and members can click on each friend to see more information – or add them as their own friend. Profiles are not restricted as a whole. The ability to search for members by and piece of profile information is also included in with the built in members directory.
19. Create and Manage Groups How does it work? Groups in BuddyPress are a gathering of members, wires posts and forum topics. In future versions members will be able to post any sort of content to groups including blog posts, images and links. Any member can create a group in BuddyPress. They then become the group administrator giving them heightened privileges within that group. Every group includes a place for group information, and the latest group news which can be kept up to date my group administrators. Groups also include a group forum (bbPress), and wire where group members can engage in discussions. These features can be selectively enabled by group creator.
20. Activity Streams Activity streams aggregate all activity across a BuddyPress installation, as well as allowing members to post short updates. It’s possible to follow activity site wide, just for your friends, or just for your groups. Others can comment on your activity and you can even mark activities as favourites so you can keep track of conversations.
21. Blog Tracking Allowing multiple blogs and multiple users per blog is a key feature to WordPress MU. BuddyPress preserves this functionality. The blogs component will aggregate all blogs, blog posts and comments for a member across the entire installation. This means other members can easily find all blogs that a member belongs to or owns, as well as their recent posts and comments. The blogs component also adds an easy to use screen for creating new blogs built right into the theme.
22. Discussion Forums The forums component allows groups to create and manage their own bbPress forum. Group members can post and reply to topics all from within the group’s page. Forums are not specifically tied to groups, they are generic, just like the wire. Forums can be attached to any content within an installation. This means third party plug-ins and new components can make use of the forums component in the future.
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27. How could Facebook Connect help your network grow? Want to learn more about Facebook Connect? http://www.facebook.com/connectnews?v=app_4949752878
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