{"id":5287,"date":"2012-02-13T10:34:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T10:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/?p=5287"},"modified":"2012-02-13T10:34:49","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T10:34:49","slug":"7-buddypress-plug-ins-you-should-add-to-your-website-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/7-buddypress-plug-ins-you-should-add-to-your-website-today\/","title":{"rendered":"7 BuddyPress plug-ins you should add to your website today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> If you have ever considered adding a social element to your website, BuddyPress is a great choice. It has been designed to work seamlessly with WordPress and you can be up and running in minutes. As you would expect from anything WordPress related, there are hundreds of plug-ins available to make it even more powerful. Here are 7 plug-ins you should consider adding straight away.<\/p>\n<p>Adding BuddyPress to your existing WordPress installation is easy, simply <a href=\"https:\/\/buddypress.org\/\">download it from here<\/a> and follow their instructions. Alternatively you can install it at the same time as WordPress with our BuddyPress one click install in eXtend.<\/p>\n<h4>Achievements<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"1 achievements\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/blog_assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/1-achievements.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/buddypress.org\/community\/groups\/achievements\/home\/\">https:\/\/buddypress.org\/community\/groups\/achievements\/home\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Give your community an extra incentive to become more interactive by rewarding points for performing specified tasks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>BuddyPress Like<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"2 like\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/blog_assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2-like.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/buddypress.org\/community\/groups\/buddypress-like\/home\">https:\/\/buddypress.org\/community\/groups\/buddypress-like\/home<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A simple Facebook \u2013 style like button automatically added to all your status updates etc. No more, no less.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Events Manager<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"3 events\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/blog_assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/3-events.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/buddypress.org\/community\/groups\/events-manager\/home\">https:\/\/buddypress.org\/community\/groups\/events-manager\/home<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Create events for people to sign up to or give groups the ability to create their own.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Invite Anyone<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"4 invite anyone\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/blog_assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/4-invite-anyone.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/buddypress.org\/community\/groups\/invite-anyone\">https:\/\/buddypress.org\/community\/groups\/invite-anyone<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A great way to spread the word. This plug-ins adds a new tab to BuddyPress that allows your members to invite people they know via email.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Welcome Pack<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"5 welcome pack\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/blog_assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/5-welcome-pack.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/welcome-pack\/\">https:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/welcome-pack\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This welcome pack will provide new users with guidance on how to use your social network, and encourage them to refer new members.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Group Plus<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"6 group plus\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/blog_assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/6-group-plus.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/buddypress-group-plus\">https:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/buddypress-group-plus<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adds loads more features to your BuddyPress groups &#8211; Add a extra tab to your groups, group maps, info into the group header and more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Default Data<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"7 default data\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/blog_assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/7-default-data.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/bp-default-data\/\">https:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/bp-default-data\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you are just getting started, this plug-in will create dummy users, messages, friends connections, groups, topics and activity items testing purpose.<\/p>\n<p>If you use BuddyPress on your website and there are any plug-ins you couldn&#8217;t live with out not on this list, let us now in the comments below&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have ever considered adding a social element to your website, BuddyPress is a great choice. It has been designed to work seamlessly with WordPress and you can be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-your-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}