During this visit, one of the groups I had joined - Denver WordPress Meetup - was looking for anyone who wanted to give a talk / introduction on BuddyPress. BuddyPress is a WordPress plugin (WordPress powers this site). Having done a little work with BuddyPress previously, I thought I’d take this opportunity to share some of my findings and give a little back to the community.

The group was comprised of people with a wide variety of knowledge and understanding of WordPress. It was decided therefore to give a more general introduction into it’s features and perhaps a quick demo with an example use case.

The first half of the night was given to comment plugins and discussion engagement. So I thought it would be fun to follow that up by showing how a plugin called WP-FB-AutoConnect can be added to a BuddyPress setup to allow users to sign-up and login using their Facebook accounts. The plugin provides a quick and simple implementation of the Facebook OpenGraph API.

I thoroughly the evening, at the Denver Press Club, I enjoyed being able to take part and hope to have shared some knowledge of BuddyPress and WordPress.

You can find links to my Presentation and Demo site below.

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