Supercharging WordPress with BuddyPress
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The document discusses how to supercharge a WordPress website with BuddyPress in under 30 minutes. It involves taking an existing responsive theme, turning it into a child theme, adding BuddyPress templates to the child theme, and fixing any CSS styling issues. The document outlines the steps needed to set up BuddyPress on a WordPress site, including installing BuddyPress and its template pack and using tools like Firebug to tweak the styles.
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Supercharging WordPress with BuddyPress
- 1. SUPERCHARGING WORDPRESS WITH BUDDYPRESS! Bronson Quick sennza | (07) 3040-1545 | bronson@sennza.com.au | http://www.sennza.com.au/ | Twitter: @sennza
- 2. OVERVIEW Take an existing theme that is designed for responsive design Turn it into a child theme Add BuddyPress templates to child theme Fix CSS styling All this in 30 minutes! 2 of 12 sennza | (07) 3040-1545 | bronson@sennza.com.au | http://www.sennza.com.au/ | Twitter: @sennza
- 3. WHO AM I? Brisbane based WordPress Developer Working with different CMS for 12 years Die hard Smashing Pumpkins fan! Organiser of the WordPress Brisbane Meetup group Just a guy who is obsessed with WordPress! 3 of 12 sennza | (07) 3040-1545 | bronson@sennza.com.au | http://www.sennza.com.au/ | Twitter: @sennza
- 4. MY SETUP FOR THIS WORKSHOP A fresh WordPress install WAMP Firefox & Firebug PhpStorm Lets do this! 4 of 12 sennza | (07) 3040-1545 | bronson@sennza.com.au | http://www.sennza.com.au/ | Twitter: @sennza
- 5. RESPONSIVE DESIGN Who knows what responsive design is? Design for mobile, iPad, desktops TwentyEleven is responsive and the WordPress admin will be responsive soon too! http://themetrust.com/demos/reveal/ http://www.bostonglobe.com/ Resize your browser window on sites if you’re bored! 5 of 12 sennza | (07) 3040-1545 | bronson@sennza.com.au | http://www.sennza.com.au/ | Twitter: @sennza
- 6. YOKO THEME http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/yoko Responsive Demo Child Theme http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/one-click-child-theme/ Sexy, clean and nice! 6 of 12 sennza | (07) 3040-1545 | bronson@sennza.com.au | http://www.sennza.com.au/ | Twitter: @sennza
- 7. BUDDYPRESS BuddyPress: “Social networking in a box” 7 of 12 sennza | (07) 3040-1545 | bronson@sennza.com.au | http://www.sennza.com.au/ | Twitter: @sennza
- 8. ALRIGHT STOP…BUDDYPRESS TIME! http://testbp.org/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress/ BuddyPress 1.5 Wizard BuddyPress Template Pack Life is so much easier with BuddyPress 1.5 8 of 12 sennza | (07) 3040-1545 | bronson@sennza.com.au | http://www.sennza.com.au/ | Twitter: @sennza
- 9. WHAT JUST HAPPENED?!?! Lots of new folders with templates in them! activity blogs forums groups members registration http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-default-data/ It’s not as scary as it first looks! 9 of 12 sennza | (07) 3040-1545 | bronson@sennza.com.au | http://www.sennza.com.au/ | Twitter: @sennza
- 10. FIREBUG IS YOUR FRIEND Tweak BP-admin-bar styles #wrap and #main on internal pages FitVid.js for responsive vids It’s not as scary as it first looks! 10 of 12 sennza | (07) 3040-1545 | bronson@sennza.com.au | http://www.sennza.com.au/ | Twitter: @sennza
- 11. COOL PLUGINS BP Labs http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-labs/ BuddyPress Activity Plus http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-activity-plus/ BuddyPress Like http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-like/ Welcome Pack http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/welcome-pack/ You’ve now got a social network! 11 of 12 sennza | (07) 3040-1545 | bronson@sennza.com.au | http://www.sennza.com.au/ | Twitter: @sennza
- 12. THANKS & QUESTIONS Andy Peatling (@apeatling) Paul Gibbs (@pgibbs) Boone B Gorges (@boonebgorges) All the people on BuddyPress.org & the WordPress community! And thanks to you for your time! 12 of 12 sennza | (07) 3040-1545 | bronson@sennza.com.au | http://www.sennza.com.au/ | Twitter: @sennza