BP Extend Groups Description (WordPress)

Important Information

This plugin will work only if BuddyPress installed and configured with a Groups component activated. Read BuddyPress documentation to know how to do that.

So the minimal requirements are:

1. WordPress 3.2.x
2. BuddyPress 1.2.5
3. Javascript enabled in your (and your members) browser (that’s 99.6% of all internet users).

Features

With “BP: Extend Groups Description” you can add extra functionality to pretty straight-forward BuddyPress groups. 

• Use @mentions in description to define (or point to) famous community members.
• Check the length (in # of words) of a description in group admin area. By default 25 words is the “orange zone”.
• If the description is more then 25 words, it will be splitted with a “Less” link.
• Everything is ready to be localized (i18n support).

Installation

1. Upload the ‘bp-extend-groups-description’ folder with all its content (1 php file, 1 js file and a /lang/ folder) to WordPress plugins folder (normally it’s ’/wp-content/plugins/’).
2. Go to WordPress admin Plugins page.
3. Activate the plugin “BP Extend Groups Description”.
4. Go to any group page (or group admin area where grop details are edited) in your social network and enjoy the results!

Demo

Download BP Extend Groups Description (WordPress)