Awesome Plugins To Help You Create An Hyperlocal Website With BuddyPress

23.11.09 by Jerome in Plugins, Tutorials

A few days ago at the WordCamp event in  New York  Ted Mann from InJersey.com shared some awesome plugins tips to help you create a Hyperlocal website with  BuddyPress. I have listed below the plugins that he suggested, plus some extra ones that I have found quite useful.

What is a Hyperlocal website?

It is a website that can agregate content power by the local community for a specific area/town.  Each town can have their own blog. In other words ” Hyperlocal Journaslism’ is a town based journalism.

A little bit about BuddyPress

Automattic, the company behind WordPress acquired BuddyPress earlier this year.
This open source project started by Andy Peatling, will help you turn your WordPress Multi-User (MU) installation into a fully functional social community platform. Some of the social features are: extended profiles, private messaging, making friends (relationships between users), creating blogs, joining groups together that have a common interest, wire (like a Facebook wall), activity streams, forums, status updates and more.

Plugins Suggested

• Post Google Map
  The Post Google Map plugin allows you to locate on the Google Map your latest blog post stories location and display it in a sidebar.  Users can just hover over the map and see the title of the post, address and thumbnail from the post if any images exist.

• Adminimize
  The Adminimize plugin lets you hide ‘unnecessary’ items from the WordPress administration menu, submenu and even the ‘Dashboard’.

• BP Blog Author Link
  The BP Blog Author Link plugin will link to the author’s BuddyPress member profile instead of the author’s posts page.

• FeedWordPress
  The FeedWordPress plugin is an Atom/RSS aggregator for WordPress. It syndicates content from feeds  into your blog.

• Welcome Pack
  The Welcome Pack plugin helps you to customize the automatic welcome email. A newly-registered user is sent an invite to a specified group and becomes friends with a specified member.

• WP Wall
  The WP Wall plugin lets you add a “Wall” widget in your blog side bar. Readers can add a quick comment about the blog, and the comment will appear in the sidebar immediately, without reloading the page.

• Events Calendar
  The Events Calendar plugin adds a small calendar to the main sidebar.  It gives you the ability to roll over the highlighted event day to see a brief description of the event.  Or you can click on the day to get a full description of the event without ever leaving your current page.

• Cosmic BP User Signup Password
  The Cosmic BP User Signup Password plugin simply inserts a password field in the signup/registration form, to let the user choose a password right away at the time of registration.

• BuddyPress Registration Options
  The BuddyPress Registration Options plugin helps you create extra fields on the registration form, so new members can decide which groups or blogs to join.

• BuddyPress Geo-Search Plugin
  The BuddyPress Geo Search plugin helps users to search other users or businesses within a certain distance using the Google location API. It converts addresses  into latitude and longitude.

• BuddyPress Groupblog
  The BuddyPress Groupblog plugin extends the group functionality by enabling each group to have a single blog associated with it.

• Auto Group Join
  The Auto Group Join plugin lets users automatically join a group based on a profile field selected during the registration process.

• BP-FBConnect
  The BP-FBConnect plugin lets users have the option of logging into BuddyPress with their Facebook login details.

Please feel free to share any plugins tips.

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