BuddyPress 1.7 Preview - Boone Gorges
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Not Syncedso buddypress 1.7 OMG that stands for "Oh My God"
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Not Syncedhere is information about where you can contact me if you want to.
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Not SyncedI'll show that again at the end becvause it won't be until the end of the presentation when you'll really realize how cool I am and you're gonnal wanna take down all of my information
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Not Syncedso, hello, about me, I'm a freelance web developer and consultant, um, I live in queens, formerly of Brooklyn, home of the greatest rappers
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Not Syncedbut now I'm in Brooklyn, or Queens, see, Freudian slip
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Not SyncedI am a lead developer on the BuddyPress project.
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Not SyncedI do a bunch of other WordPress related projects.
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Not SyncedCUNY Academic Commons, Anthologize, Commons In A Box.
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Not SyncedI do a bunch of stuff, um, a bunch of stuff
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Not Syncedso, and I am unrelated to He-Man.
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Not SyncedI put that up there because a lot of people they look at me and they're like "wait are you?"... and I'm like...
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Not SyncedOk, [clears throat], um, what is BuddyPress?
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Not SyncedSteve asked before how many people have used BuddyPress, I wasn't really looking, so how many of you have used it?
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Not SyncedOk, so close to half.
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Not SyncedSo let me just briefly tell you a little bit about what BuddyPress is.
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Not SyncedSo we have WordPress right? and WordPress gives you the ability to blog; to create content.
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Not SyncedWhat BuddyPress does is it adds a social layer on top of your WordPress isntallation.
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Not SyncedThe way I like to... and I didn't put a slide in here about this... but the way that I really like to say this. The way that I like to put it best is that WordPress is abou content first.
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Not SyncedIt's about whatever you are producing: blog posts or journaling or whatever itis that you put in your wordpress blog.
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Not SyncedBuddyPress kind of turns that around and it makes user s first.
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Not SyncedYou produce all sorts of content. LIke you have profile content. You have a customizable user groups.
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Not SyncedYou have the ability to create forums. You have threaded activity streams that keep track of things going on around the site.
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Not SyncedSo we have all sorts of content but it is all organized around users as opposed to being organized around posts.
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Not Syncedso, um, I like to... About BuddyPress [laughs] so here's where I screwed up.
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Not SyncedI may as well just pull back the curtain right, the great and powerful Oz.
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Not SyncedUm, I copied a couple of these slide from another prsentation deck and I forgot to copy over the images.
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Not SyncedSo I'm just gonna kind of tell you about what the images look like.
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Not SyncedSo lets imagine here that you saw a picture of the BuddyPress logo and then over here you saw a picture of a piece of a lego.
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Not SyncedI have a friend in the BuddyPress community named Tammy and she loves to descibe BuddyPress as social lego.
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Not SyncedWhich is my favorite way of thinking about it.
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Not SyncedIt's this collection of tools that are there to provide different social functionality on your site.
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Not SyncedAnd you as a site developer or a site administrator can decide which ones of these you can turn on. to kind of build a customized social experieence for your sites users.
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Not SyncedSo, you could also think about this as a sort of existential statement if you want.
- Title:
- BuddyPress 1.7 Preview - Boone Gorges
- Description:
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Boone Gorges previews BuddyPress 1.7 at WordPress NYC Meetup on January 15 2013.
http://boone.gorg.es/
http://www.meetup.com/WordpressNYC/events/97671232/
Punkcast # 2134-01
Webcast support: NYI http://nyi.net
More videos: http://wpnyc.org/video/
- Video Language:
- English
- Duration:
- 01:04:16