Although contributing to the open source–and specifically, the WordPress–community has always been a central component of WebDevStudios’ philosophy, it wasn’t until October of 2014 that we figured out how to formally contribute as a full company. We started participating in Five for...
Read More What WDS Did During Five for the Future: May 2016Tag: BuddyPress
Adding BuddyPress Custom Pages to Profiles
BuddyPress comes with all the profile and group pages it needs to access core settings and content. Sometimes you add a plugin to your site that’s not a BuddyPress plugin but you want to have a page on the profile to display...
Read More Adding BuddyPress Custom Pages to ProfilesWhat’s New in BuddyPress 2.5
BuddyPress 2.5 adds a few new tools and as always some under the hood improvements that you should get jazzed about! Here are some of the updates we can come to expect from this next BuddyPress update:
Read More What’s New in BuddyPress 2.5BuddyPress: What’s Coming in 2.4?
After each major release of BuddyPress, the BP community discusses (in the Slack channel!) what to include in the following release. BuddyPress 2.4 is no different and includes a few new bells and whistles.
Read More BuddyPress: What’s Coming in 2.4?BuddyPress: Adding Custom Notifications
Social networks run on notifications and BuddyPress helps make that happen. BuddyPress sends out notifications for various actions on the site, like when you get a message from a friend or when someone replies to your status update. Though BuddyPress sends out quite...
Read More BuddyPress: Adding Custom NotificationsWhat’s New with BuddyPress
BuddyPress is always in active development, so new features, fixes, and enhancements are continually being released. Let’s go over some updates you might have missed! This is a real quick and dirty rundown with links to more information on each bit, but let...
Read More What’s New with BuddyPressCreating Custom Templates for BuddyPress
On my first day working at WebDevStudios, Greg Rickaby told me that one of the best things about working here is that I would constantly be getting to learn new technologies. He wasn’t lying. In my second week, I was tasked with...
Read More Creating Custom Templates for BuddyPressThere and Back Again: A BuddyPress Tale
The Beginnings I am no stranger to contributing to open source. I have contributed in some way or another since early 2007, when I found a love for Linux and the Fedora Project. I was approaching the end of my time in...
Read More There and Back Again: A BuddyPress TaleBuddyPress: The Lowdown on Loop Filtering
BuddyPress has default components that add extra social functionality to a WordPress install. Sometimes you will want to customize what each component displays and that is done through loop filtering. Continue reading if you want to learn more about customizing the output of...
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