by Kevin Pine
More BP Plugins Installed
November 11, 2009 in BuddyPress, Plugin by Kevin Pine
A few more plugins being tested.
SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/si-captcha-for-wordpress/
Author: Mike Challis
Adds CAPTCHA anti-spam methods to WordPress on the comment form, registration form, login, or all. In order to post comments or regiser, users will have to type in the phrase shown on the image. This prevents spam from automated bots. Adds security. Works great with Akismet. Also is fully WPMU and BuddyPress compatible.
Welcome Pack http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/welcome-pack/
Author: DJPaul
Welcome Pack is a BuddyPress plugin that enhances the new user experience. A newly-registered user is sent an invite to a specified group and becomes friends with a specified member. A customisable “welcome” message can also be sent to the new user automatically.
Custom Profile Filters for BuddyPress http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-profile-filters-for-buddypress/
Authors: boonebgorges, cuny-academic-commons
Out of the box, BuddyPress automatically turns some words and phrases in the fields of a user’s profile into links that, when clicked, search the user’s community for other profiles containing those phrases. When activated, this plugin allows users and administrators to have more control over these links, in the following ways:
1) By using square brackets in a profile field, users can specify which words or phrases in their profile turn into links. For example: under Interests, I might list “Cartoons about dogs”. By default, Buddypress will turn the entire phrase into a link that searches the community for others who like cartoons about dogs. If I instead type “[Cartoons] about [dogs]“, then the two words in brackets will turn into independent links.
2) Administrators can specify certain profile fields that will not turn into links at all. The standard setting for the plugin is that fields labeled ‘Phone’, ‘IM’, and ‘Skype ID’ will not become linkable (it doesn’t make much sense to search a community for what should be a unique handle, after all). See custom-profile-filters-for-buddypress.php to configure this setting.
3) Administrators can specify certain profile fields that link to social networking profiles. If I enter my Twitter handle ‘boonebgorges’ into a field labeled ‘Twitter’, for example, this plugin will bypass the default link to a BuddyPress search on ‘boonebgorges’ and instead link to http://twitter.com/boonebgorges. See custom-profile-filters-for-buddypress.php to configure this setting.
