Blogging live from WordCamp 2011 in San Francisco and the first module of the day is: BuddyPress. BuddyPress is a single WordPress plugin but a powerful one: it can turn your WordPress site into a full-blown socially connected, discussion, Facebook-like, powerful community site.
The lead developer is talking about huge changes that are coming in the soon-to-be-released 1.5 version. It sounds like it’s really a rewrite of most of the plugin to bring it up to speed with the advancements of WordPress 3.0, e.g. custom post types. BuddyPress is also compatible with
He just made a good comment: don’t use all of the features right when you open the box! Take what you need, don’t activate all of the features just yet and activat them as you need them. Impress your friends and colleagues … slowly!
Likoma has several sites using BuddyPress so I’m looking forward to 1.5 to benefit from the new features–and cleaned-up code.
