1. Get thee behind me! Making BuddyPress do thine bidding Boone Gorges @boonebgorges [email_address] http://teleogistic.net

3. Example: CUNY Academic Commons http://commons.gc.cuny.edu

4. Customization Case Study: A rocking website

5. bp-default: Does not rock

6. Dashboard > BP > Profile Fields

7. Customizing components

8. Dashboard > BP > Component Setup

9. Lame

10. define( 'BP_MEMBERS_SLUG', 'headbangers' ); bp-custom.php

11. Awesome

12. Lame

13. define( 'BPLANG', 'rock' ); if ( file_exists( BP_PLUGIN_DIR . '/bp-languages/buddypress-' . BPLANG . '.mo' ) ) { load_textdomain( 'buddypress', BP_PLUGIN_DIR . '/bp-languages/buddypress-' . BPLANG . '.mo' ); } bp-custom.php [plugin-dir]/buddypress/ bp-languages/ buddypress-rock.po

14. Awesome

15. Theming with bp-sn-parent

16. bp-sn-parent standard WP theme + BP theme files

17. Lame

18. [theme-dir]/bp-rock/style.css

19. [theme-dir]/bp-rock/ _inc/css/style.css

20. Awesome

21. Plugins

23. Hooks and filters function how_bad_ass_am_i() { global $bp; $user_id = $bp->displayed_user->id; $user_name = $bp->displayed_user->fullname; $user_url = $bp->displayed_user->domain; echo '<a href=&quot;' . $user_url . '&quot;>' . $user_name . '</a> is bad ass #' . $user_id . ' on this site.'; } add_action( 'bp_before_profile_field_content', 'how_bad_ass_am_i' ); bp-custom.php

24. AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!

26. Yes! Boone Gorges @boonebgorges [email_address]