Cooking with BuddyPress

I’m sitting downstairs at WordCamp 2009 in San Fransisco. Up on stage right now, Andy Peatling creator of BuddyPress.

BuddyPress Notes

Why BuddyPress:

• BYOTOS ( Bring Your Own Terms Of Service )
• Custom branding
• Existing plugins ( WordPress plugin integration + BP specific plugins )
• University Intranet
  • Profile
  • Activity Streams + LDAP login plugin
  • Blog tracking + More Privacy plugin
  • Comment wires + Privacy group plugin
  • Content groups
• BuddyPress allows you to choose your components ( pic )
• Built in social widgets
• bbPress integration ( will become easier in the up coming versions ) —Andy 5/30/09

Extending BuddyPress

• BuddyPress is as extensible as WordPress
• All BuddyPress components are coded and structured the same way
• BuddyPress functions allow you to talk to the theme
  Building your component navigation ( pic )

I tried to keep up with it all, but was also writing and editing my site. For more, ask questions!

• @apeatling
• @buddypressdev
• @wpcult