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He is one of BuddyPress' lead developers, the talented Boone Gorges. Boone will be getting technical with BuddyPress in his presentation "Herding Cats with the BuddyPress Activity Component".

A quick search through the plugins at wordpress.org will turn up several photo plugins for BuddyPress but none with the comprehensive list of features offered by the rtMedia plugin.

BuddyPress Private Message Rate Limiter plugin allows site admins to limit the number of private messages a user can send on BuddyPress sites during a particular interval of time. The best use case is to limit spammers from flooding your network users via private message.

This summer has been the time I (@imath) chose to immerse myself. So I studied the different topics posted in the plugin support forum and this version meets the majority of "feature requests".

For many who are willing to give BuddyPress a try, this article will help to know the basic information regarding how to use BuddyPress as well as understanding its basic features. Here are some tips and helpful resources that will help beginners to learn how to use and optimize their WordPress sites with BuddyPress.

After creating our user directory , allowed them to be able to relate and interact with each other using private messages after set up new areas in our blog to offer their to gather and discuss common themes, today I invite you to discover the last two components BuddyPress.

Do you want to limit the number of users who can join a group on your BuddyPress based site? Well, now you can. The BuddyPress Limit Members Per Group plugin gives you the flexibility to set the limit for all groups on your Site or just for individual groups.

My (@modemlooper) free plugins and themes had been downloaded almost a half a million times. I set up a freemium model where I had a free version on WP.org repo and then a paid plugin with more options and support. This failed for me because not enough users upgraded and the support for the free plugins was way higher than the paid version.

The following is a guide to use when creating templates for the new BuddyPress template pack. In this repository is the skeleton for the plugin we'll be using to create the template pack. This will allow you to try the templates without requiring a theme.

Do you want to build an online community similar to Facebook except on your own domain? Do you want members to be able to register and interact with each other in a private or public setting? Here are the steps for building a community website. Watch a video, just 3:52 long.

If you're fed up of storing the files you are working on in your inbox, treating your email account like some kind of file repository, and you don't want to entrust your files with, or push your collaborators onto, another cloud storage service then a BuddyPress site and a newly released plugin called BuddyDrive might just be the answer.

A very useful Buddypress plugin is Buddypress Activity plus which adds 3 new buttons to your BuddyPress activity stream. Enabling you to attach photos, videos, and even share web links with everyone on your network. But I needed to have in separate tabs the uploaded photo, videos and links, like in the following picture. So I made an extension for the Buddypress Activity plus plugin.

I am (@sbrajesh) really happy to put the update for BuddyBlog plugin. First of all, I will like to thank you all for the tremendous response to BuddyBlog plugin. This update fixes a ton of issues and adds a few features.

This is a simple Buddypress client. If configured properly, it will allow you to post status updates to your Buddypress install. It also has a simple RSS reader for your sitewide activity feed where you can comment on, share and delete feed items.

This seventh beta is full of bug fixes and cleanup. The next release will continue with lower priority bug fixes and plugin conflicts. There is a high likelihood that this is the last beta, and the next round of fixes will get us to a release candidate #1.

At yesterday's dev chat, we agreed the scope of BuddyPress 1.9. Very exciting news, and we'll have a post up soon for people who missed the chat. If you're super-keen, read the IRC logs.

For the 1.8 dev cycle, our experiment with a short timeline and strict deadlines was a big success. We've had very few bug reports related to changes in 1.8, and the speed of the cycle meant that nothing sat unused in trunk for too long. We're hoping to replicate this success by taking a similar approach for BuddyPress 1.9.

What others are asking and how got answered.

From several places: WordPress Plugins Repository, Github, CodeCanyon and other sites.

Plugins are good, but themes are those things that create the very first impression.

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