Basics of Blog Creation: The experience of making a Blog can be hectic, boring and even unsuccessful, but you can also make it as easy and enjoyable as a
Can I change the URL where non-loggedin users are being redirected? =
Yes, currently you need to write a filter function in your functions.php.
`function redirect_nonloggedin_users($current_uri, $redirect_to) {
// Redirect users to the homepage
// Caution! Exclude the homepage from 'Private BuddyPress' options
// to avoid redirection loops!
return get_option('siteurl') . '/?from=' . $redirect_to;
}
add_filter('pbp_redirect_login_page', 'redirect_nonloggedin_users', 10, 2);`
Protect your BuddyPress Installation from strangers. Only registered users will be allowed to view the installation and all other users will be redirected to the login page. Users attempting to view blog content via RSS are also authenticated via HTTP Auth.
You can exclude the registration, the homepage and blog pages (e.g. posts, archives and non-buddypress pages) from protection. In combination with the plugin 'Invitation Code Checker' your installation stays private but the registration is for users with a special password open.
This post is all about making unifiead search work with BuddyPress 1.5+. It is a long post, so please have a cup of coffee and let us get started.
List of things we will cover below:-
Installing Global Unified search Plugin
Basic setup for the theme
Showing search results for:-
Members search
Groups search
Activity search
Blog Posts search
Blog search
Group Forum search(BBPress 1.0 which you use for group forums)
BBPress 2.0 based forums topic search
What content will Import From Ning import?
Import From Ning currently imports the following items from a Ning export: members, member profiles, member avatars, members comments (the "wall"), groups, discussions, and blogs. The plugin attempts to recognize inline images and copy them to the BuddyPress installation, so that you don't lose the images you've put in your blog posts.
There are 12 shortcodes available in order
to display a specific member, a group, a list of members, the friends of the displayed or loggedin user, the groups of the displayed or loggedin user,
the messages and the notifications of a loggedin user, blogs of the network, posts from the blogs of the network.
There’s probably a reason Quora, Stackoverflow and most Ning networks all have news feeds on their front pages.
Clearly define your niche.
clearly define your site’s niche so that users will have an easier time understanding how your site adds value to their lives. For example, Quora is the social network where one gets their questions answered; Stackoverflow is a Q&A network for programmers; Linkedin is a specific network for jobhunting professionals. What specific need does your social network cater to?
Beware of outdated plugins and themes.
Look at the description closely and check to see if it’s been tested up to the WordPress version you’ve installed. If you’re unsure, search for the plugin forums (every WordPress plugin should have one) and see the latest praises or issues people are discussing on the threads.
If a new theme or plugin crashes your site, rename or delete it.
I recommend giving people single sign-on options using Twitter, Linkedin, OpenID, Livejournal, etc. as well as Facebook.
Your site needs an FAQ.
No, really. It does. Although you personally might think that the activity feeds and groups and profile editing links are in the most obvious locations in the world, your users will not. They’re used to their own oft-frequented social networks (cough, Facebook), and they’ll ask you why clicking on their avatar doesn’t automatically bring them to a “change your profile picture” page or if logging into your site using Facebook Connect will mean that everything they post will automatically get cross-posted to their Facebook wall. In addition, users want to know about your site features.
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.
"Automatically subscribe, unsubscribe, and update users to your MailChimp mailing list as users subscribe and unsubscribe to your site. Sync your BuddyPress profile fields with your MaiChimp merge variables and groups. Create MailChimp mail campaigns automatically from blog posts. AutoChimp uses a single options page to help you manage your preferred settings."
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.
you're in charge of handling hosting. And unless you have a cousin who works at a hosting website that'll hook you up, well, that's going to cost some money too.
the software felt overly-complex for our needs and a little unintuitive – or ‘clunky’!
our Moodle installation suddenly stopped working altogether one day, and we couldn’t repair upgrade to the latest version we were forced to end the Pilot Project and seek another solution – fast.
The hybrid solution:
WordPress v3.3.1 – Basic foundation for the site
BuddyPress v1.5.4 – Adds social features
ScholarPress Courseware 0.9.5 – Adds LMS features
Fishbook theme v1.2 – Starts to get the site looking like Facebook
BP Group Management v0.5.2 – Allows us to ‘enrol’ users in courses
4. Adjusted the language to match our own, across the site:
‘Groups’ to ‘Courses’
‘Lectures’ to ‘Modules’
‘Schedules’ to ‘Events’
‘Assignments’ to ‘Pre- and Post-work’
‘Friends’ to ‘Contacts’ (and removed the Friends functionality)
‘Activity’ to ‘Newsfeed’