How to combat spam signups in BuddyPress

If you have been running a BuddyPress site without any spam protection, you will probably notice that you are receiving a lot of spam. The biggest areas for spam are: fake user signups fake activity updates fake blog comments fake blogs created (if you have user blogs enabled in BuddyPress) This can be incredibly annoying […]

Auto-join new users to a BuddyPress group

To automatically join new users to an existing group on your BuddyPress site, you will need to add a function to your functions.php file. Add this function, replacing <# group ID #> on line five with the numeric ID of your group. You will need to figure out the group’s numeric ID. Here’s a trick. […]

How to set up a single bbPress forum with BuddyPress

Out of the box, BuddyPress allows for instant integration with bbPress. It automatically themes the forum to match the rest of the website, and even tracks a user’s forum activity throughout the site. These are compelling reasons to use bbPress over other alternatives such as Simple:Press on any BuddyPress site. Unfortunately, BuddyPress forces bbPress forums […]

Presentation: Extending WordPress to build a community of active users

Today I am doing a presentation with the Chicago Search Engine Optimization Meetup Group. The presentation will be titled “Extending WordPress to build a community of active users.” Description By using BuddyPress, the community platform for WordPress, you can turn casual readers of your blog into active participants. Bring in new visitors through user-generated content, and […]

How we became a BuddyPress development company

When we decided to build EasyOutsource, a community job site, our first attempt was to build it on the Drupal platform. At the time it appeared to be the best solution available due to several plugins that could potentially, when combined, work as a social networking site. However we discovered a number of issues with Drupal, mainly that these […]

What’s new in WordPress 3.0

WordPress 3.0 was recently released as a major update to the WordPress content management system. In this post I will explain some of the bigger features included with WP 3.0. 1. WordPress MU merged into WordPress WordPress Multi-User, better known as Wordpress MU, has existed for years as an offshoot of WordPress. WordPress 3.0 merged […]