This document outlines Tanner Moushey's presentation on "Taming BuddyPress". The presentation covers three main steps: 1) Define the Audience by identifying the target users and their problem, 2) Define the Solution by creating a solution focused on the audience's needs rather than features, and explaining why BuddyPress is the right solution, and 3) Define the Experience by focusing on user and admin workflows. The document then lists some plugins and themes that can help make BuddyPress implementations successful.

1. Slides: iwitnessdesign.com/wcmia17

2. Slides: iwitnessdesign.com/wcmia17

3. Slides: iwitnessdesign.com/wcmia17

4. Slides: iwitnessdesign.com/wcmia17

5. Slides: iwitnessdesign.com/wcmia17

6. Slides: iwitnessdesign.com/wcmia17
Hello!
I am Tanner Moushey
@tannermoushey
✖ CEO and Lead Dev at iWitness Design
✖ WordPress and BuddyPress core contributor
✖ Author of multiple WordPress plugins
✖ Entrepreneur
✖ SaaS Builder

7. Slides: iwitnessdesign.com/wcmia17

8. Slides: iwitnessdesign.com/wcmia17
Taming
BuddyPress

9. Slides: iwitnessdesign.com/wcmia17
1. Defining your Audience
2. Defining your Solution
3. Defining the Experience

10. Slides: iwitnessdesign.com/wcmia17
Step 1.
Define the Audience

11. Slides: iwitnessdesign.com/wcmia17
Solutions are more important
than features

12. Slides: iwitnessdesign.com/wcmia17
Define the Audience
✖ Define your target audience

13. Slides: iwitnessdesign.com/wcmia17

14. Slides: iwitnessdesign.com/wcmia17

15. Slides: iwitnessdesign.com/wcmia17
Define the Audience
✖ Define your target audience
✖ Discover the problem that you can
provide a solution for

16. Slides: iwitnessdesign.com/wcmia17
Step 2.
Define the Solution

17. Slides: iwitnessdesign.com/wcmia17
Define the Solution
✖ Create your solution, use features
when necessary.

18. Slides: iwitnessdesign.com/wcmia17
Define the Solution
✖ Create your solution, use features
when necessary.
✖ If you are competing with Facebook,
you are doing it wrong.

19. Slides: iwitnessdesign.com/wcmia17
BuddyPress is not ALWAYS the right
solution

20. Slides: iwitnessdesign.com/wcmia17
Define the Solution
✖ Create your solution, use features
when necessary.
✖ If you are competing with Facebook,
you are doing it wrong.
✖ Why is BuddyPress the right
solution?

21. Slides: iwitnessdesign.com/wcmia17
Step 3.
Define the Experience

22. Slides: iwitnessdesign.com/wcmia17
Define the Experience
✖ Focus on user flow

23. Slides: iwitnessdesign.com/wcmia17
Provide solutions not options

24. Slides: iwitnessdesign.com/wcmia17
Define the Experience
✖ Focus on user flow
✖ Focus on admin flow

25. Slides: iwitnessdesign.com/wcmia17
Define the Experience
✖ Focus on user flow
✖ Focus on admin flow

26. Slides: iwitnessdesign.com/wcmia17
Making it Real

27. Slides: iwitnessdesign.com/wcmia17

28. Slides: iwitnessdesign.com/wcmia17

29. Slides: iwitnessdesign.com/wcmia17

30. Slides: iwitnessdesign.com/wcmia17

31. Slides: iwitnessdesign.com/wcmia17

32. Slides: iwitnessdesign.com/wcmia17
Plugins
✖ GravityForms (User Registration)
✖ BP Force Profile
✖ BuddyPress Conditional Field Groups
✖ Invite Anyone
✖ User Switching
✖ Restrict Content Pro
✖ RCP + BP

33. Slides: iwitnessdesign.com/wcmia17
Themes
✖ BuddyBoss
✖ WeFoster

34. Slides: iwitnessdesign.com/wcmia17 Slide template by SlidesCarnival
Thanks!
Any questions?
You can find me at:
@tannermoushey