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WordPress for Education

You're reading from   WordPress for Education Create interactive and engaging e-learning websites with WordPress book and ebook

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849518208
Length 144 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Adam Scott Adam Scott
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Installing BuddyPress


To install BuddyPress, first install and activate the BuddyPress plugin. To install the plugin, log in to the WordPress dashboard, hover over Plugins in the left sidebar and choose Add New. From the Install Plugins screen, search for and activate BuddyPress (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress/). At the time of writing, the current version of BuddyPress is 1.5.5.

Note

If you are installing BuddyPress in addition to the WordPress Multisite Network (as covered in Chapter 4, Enabling a Multisite Network), BuddyPress will be installed and managed from within the Network Admin dashboard. While possible to run both a multisite network and BuddyPress, I have encountered occasional compatibility issues. I would recommend choosing the one that best suits your site needs.

Once the plugin has been activated, we can follow the BuddyPress Installation Wizard to setup our social network. To access the BuddyPress Installation Wizard (or Update Wizard from within a multisite...

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