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Slides from Designing For Humans with #BuddyPress Presentation http://t.co/OlaH2HA5 via @wpmuorg

I re-discovered my fascination with online community building around the time I subscribed to a shared hosting service, installed WordPress, discovered the Buddypress plugin, and stumbled upon open-source forums where people were amazingly helpfully about sharing troubleshooting tips and code.   This was last December. The discovery turned into an independent study I dubbed "Volunteerism in a Web 2.0 World," which turned into the development of a website and lots of meetings and several pages of an annotated bibliography - all of which I submitted to my Research in Practice Program (RIPP) advisor at the end of the semester.Over the course of my meetings with "stakeholders" (Duke students and administrators) to asses the value of the "website" (an online social network for Duke civic engagement), I learned a few things about designing an online community using WordPress and Buddypress.

The intuitively designed, lightweight, finely coded and error-free Deeds premium WordPress theme is aimed at building a powerful and progressing website on multiple niches, such as Church, Charity, Religious Propagation, and Non-profit Organization. It is cleaner, quicker and easier to customize, and is perfect for the newbies. Three uniquely built Homepage Layouts, two innovative Header Styles, and a number of built-in pages of varied utility are bound to be of special appeal for the professional web designer.

"One of main reasons that BuddyPress communities fail is because members don't connect and interact with each other. One way to improve that is through design that keeps members interested."

Check out this mini-gallery for a little bit of inspiration to take your BuddyPress design way beyond the default theme!

"The Academic Commons of The City University of New York is designed to support faculty initiatives and build community through the use of technology in teaching and learning. The free exchange of knowledge among colleagues across the university is central to better educating the student body and expanding professional development opportunities for faculty research and teaching."

Want to see what designers and developers are doing with BuddyPress these days? Here's another installation of our BuddyPress eye candy series, featuring a few of the latest communities with uniquely customized themes. Newcomers to BuddyPress always have questions about how flexible the platform is for theming. If you're wondering what's possible with BuddyPress, just check out a few of these sites for a bit of inspiration.

This plugin is designed to fully import all of a Ning network's users, custom profile fields, and avatars to BuddyPress. In short, everything that you can import from Ning to BuddyPress... While members are being imported the plugin displays a user-friendly status page with a nifty list of user avatars, details, and current progress as the import page refreshes and processes the import file in batches of 5 members. All imported members receive a fully customizable introduction email with their login link, username and password. And on the off-chance you have a very large Ning member list that's too big to upload via the plugin, you can also use FTP to upload the file and import all of your Ning network members.

Dictate, the 6-in-one premium Wordpress theme, brings you modern design and neat & clean outlook. Touching the heights of artistic perfection, this multi-purpose web building tool can be used for six different niches, Medical, Fashion, Spa, Saloon, Business and Blog. Nevertheless, it is suitable for every single website, as you can utilize 72 built-in elements and advanced Visual Composer (save $ 25) page builder to modify it to any required shape and functionality. The greatest appeal lies in its versatility of features and ease of customization, so that you may launch a fully featured website with little or no basic knowledge, effort and time.

"With BuddyPress your users get loads of emails for all the notifications they receive. Creating a good looking email template does wonders for the feel of your network, and really gives it a more unique feel."

"Starting from BPGE v3.6 you can now change the html that is used to display any content in front-end (in groups) right from your theme folder. This is useful if you want to change the way pages and fields are displayed, but it works for "Admin -> Extras" management pages as well. "