A stunning teams, groups and networking oriented BuddyPress theme. Control the site appearance and allow members to customize their profile pages too – also works great with regular WordPress & WPMU!

The Blogs MU WPMU/BuddyPress theme is suitable for anyone wanting to build a social networking and groups oriented site.

Or you can just use it as a great WordPress theme!

The theme features a stack of extra new features such as allowing members to customize their own profile page by adding video, flickr, profile headers, profile blog feeds and integrating their own social network feeds such as twitter, facebook, myspace among others.

The theme includes extensive options allowing site admin to control privacy on members profiles or directories and customize site details such as featured services and featured section and also featured text.

Here’s a complete list of the features of the Blogs MU theme:

3 page templates – blog, full width and new page login template
CSS elements like fonts, button color, link color are editable via theme option
Custom admin bar colours
Customizable welcome intro message and sub intro message
Homepage intro feature block
Homepage team/group features…controllable via theme options (random or by site admin group id choice).
Homepage sub intro feature block
Homepage 3 section message feature block
Homepage 6 custom post block where you can choose to use custom upload crop with editable text or post mode which grabs your latest category post according to your featured category in theme option
Custom image field support
Custom header ability
Advert code or image placement
Built in widgets: most commented and BuddyPress search directory widget
Privacy options: Allow only logged in users to view members profiles along with members directory and switch to stop normal users creating groups or joining ones unless created by admin or editors
Create your own theme styles using the easy styling system
Parent and child themes allowing for easy updates
Theme options that mean no code editing required to configure any feature on this theme
Profile option allows member to customize their own profile page
Profile social media option where member can set their network links
Profile video and Flickr options
New random group and friend suggestions in sidebar
New Facebook ‘like’ button fro stream and blog post – can be turn off via theme option

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Allows you to do a full import of a Ning network’s users, their custom profile fields, and avatars to BuddyPress. Full support for very large member lists via optional FTP upload and batch processing.

Fed up with Ning?

We heard you! Introducing the WPMU DEV fully supported powerful user import tool that just works!

This plugin is designed to fully import all of a Ning network’s users, their custom profile fields, and avatars to BuddyPress.

Ning to BuddyPress User Importer plugin

Following the simple install, you just activate the Ning to BuddyPress User Importer plugin and use your new “Ning Importer” menu item under the BuddyPress menu to easily import all of your Ning network members.

BuddyPress > Ning Importer page

While members are being imported the plugin displays a user-friendly status page with a nifty list of user avatars, details, and current progress as the import page refreshes and processes the import file in batches of 5 members.

Members being imported

All imported members receive a fully customizable introduction email with their login link, username and password.

Example of email sent to imported Ning member

And on the off-chance you have a very large Ning member list that’s too big to upload via the plugin, you can alternatively use FTP to upload the file and import all of your Ning network members.

Neato heh? No more pesky Ning — now you can have a fully functional BuddyPress social network where you control the content!

It’s designed to work as simply as possible – as multiple widgets so that you don’t nee to edit any code or fiddle with any settings.
Simply place the widget where you’d like it to sit, choose the rule that you want to apply (for example, show this ad only to search engine visitors), paste in your ad code and you are away!

The rules available are:

User isn’t logged in
User hasn’t commented before
User arrived via a search engine
User arrived via a link
User is using Internet Explorer

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The annoyance of users not being able to insert widgets into text boxes, of having to figure out all those darn shortcodes.

Well, consider that fixed… this plugin simply allows users to add additional tags (embed, iframe, etc) to be used when writing a post or page (in their html tab).

Or when using a text widget.

And it’s so simple you can add other elements to it at will yourself.

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Both provide the ability to easily place a message that is displayed on every page inside all dashboards of your site.

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Check out Rebranding WordPress MU if you want to remove all WordPress branding including links to support & the codex, browse happy buttons and footer text.

Simply drop into mu-plugins and you can now edit your admin footer from Site Admin -> Options.

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Both provide the ability to easily place a message that is displayed on every page inside all dashboards of your site.

Admin message is great for an important message that you want always displayed such as letting users know of scheduled maintenance or a great new feature.

Admin panel tips plugin

Admin messages work well in combination with Admin panel tips plugin.

You use the Admin panel tips plugin for providing a series of helpful tips and links that change as the user navigates inside their dashboard.

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Simply drop this plugin into your /mu-plugins/ folder and visit Site Admin > Tips to enter in as many different tips – or news / promotions / whatever you choose – and you can always edit, add to or delete them later.

Fully html compatible of course!

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You’ve probably struggled with alternatives like FeedWordPress, WP-o-Matic, Yaab autoblogger or even autoblogged… and if you haven’t yet, then don’t worry, because we can tell you now that they don’t come close to Autoblog… which just plain works.

No coding required, no complicated instructions, no worries!

All you need to do is to download the plugin and then drop autoblog.php and /autoblogincludes/ into /mu-plugins/ and you’ll be provided with as simple site admin menu called, you guessed it ‘Auto Blog’

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These avatar can then be displayed as a widget in their sidebars, on any comments they leave around the site and in blog and user listings around the site.

And of course, every theme pack we release already has the comment avatar code integrated with it… which took days and days to get right… but you can have it all in a matter of minutes!

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