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How to add post counts to Buddypress Site Directory

While working on trying to get the latest post images and latest post author avatars in the blogs-loop.php of the Site Tracking Directory template, I stumbled on this little number. Adding in the blogs loop you can display the post count for each site on your multisite ala buddypress.

How I added BP Followers Follow Button on Member Blogs

About 5-6 Months ago I decided I wanted to put the Follow Me button (from the BP Followers Plugin) on member blogs on a WP Multisite. Any way after a lot of copy, pasting, and refreshing…here’s what I got to work. Please someone tell me there’s an easier way and that I went the long [...]

BP Post Directly Friends Activity

I had come up with this before Buddypress had released their 1.2 version that you see used on Buddypress.org…so the newer way might be more recommended for whatever reason.  This was just one of the first functionalities that I jumped into. I haven’t looked to see how they’ve done it but this way works for [...]

Favorite Post Sitewide

Here’s the plugin setup for BP Favorite Posts Sitewide. It is basic so there’s a lot of steps to set it up. So if you like it and would like to modify it to make the setup process lighter please feel free as long as you make it available to everyone.  The actions of favoriting [...]

How to get BuddyPress Comment Count by Blog?

I wanted to be able to show a member’s comment count from a particular blog on a multisite wordpress blog network. I found a couple of ways to do it using switch_to_blog. This is to display the comment count on a user profile page. Install the Buddpress Member Profile Stats plugin. And put the following [...]

Add a Character Limit to Buddypress Activity Post Form

Here’s how I added length limiting to my post box in Buddypress. Open the activity/post-form.php and add this near top. I put it under the avatar, don’t remember right now if there was a reason for that. Add this next clip right afterwards or depending where you want it to display the number counter, you [...]

BP’s Most Common Component Combinations

I’ve tried many of the different bp plugins available and these keep sticking around time after time on each network I am working with. These are only one the ones listed in my plugins panel. There have been some other plugins that I’ve worked into the functions. The themes or main sites usually end up [...]

BP Member Profile Links to Network Author Pages

I’ve been working on getting links in the buddypress member profile that jump over to author pages(author.php) for that user on other blogs on the network.  The following hack job code I got to do just that but it doesn’t do it quite right. It only shows blogs that the user is currently a member [...]

How to add Ads to Buddypress Activity Stream?

Don’t know if this is the best way to go about doing it but it works for me. If you want to ad advertisements – adsense or any other – try this. By modifying the activity-loop.php. You just need to house your ad code where you want and replace the filepath accordingly.

What is Buddypress?

Another interesting topic popped up on the BP forums today asking the question, What is Buddypress?…again my reply was too long for a forum reply. I think BP has leaned too heavily towards plugins built on top of BP, a plugin itself. I didn’t see it working that way at first and that’s why I [...]

So, your BP site is up! Now What?

I started writing this as a forum reply for this thread but I went a little long so I thought I’d give it a proper home and kickstart my blog. BP and MU and Plugins and Themes. It’s never really going to be perfect as you say, at some point you have to step back [...]