Firstly, I take no responsibility at all if you break your website, do these steps at your own will! I suggest doing this in a local environment, aka, on your local machine!! once you get your theme working with buddypress locally, do what you want with it, again, I take no responsibility! Although it looks long and tedious, I have tried to make this tutorial as readable as possible for everyone. If you find it useful, please link to this article!

Genesis and Buddypress Integration

Not really SEO related, just making note of this for future, if you are having issues with the latest buddypress version and logging out with BP-FBConnect, do a search and replace within your theme, most likely sidebar pages or header:

wp_logout_url( bp_get_root_domain() )

And replace with

wp_logout_url()

Buddypress is cool, has some downfalls, but is a great tool for building a wpmu driven community. Sometimes though, you get unwanted people wanting to create groups and cause a bit of havoc. I always set ‘Create a Group’ to be an admin task only. This is only a quick hack, so take it with a grain of salt. Buddypress Create a Group, make it Admin only…

Here is my guide on how to remove the #more tag in wordpress, the link at the bottom of an excerpt that takes you through to the anchor of your article, I prefer a clean link to the full article. You can add this code to your functions.php file and remove it, pretty simple.

function remove_more($link) {
$offset = strpos($link, '#more-');
if ($offset) {
$end = strpos($link, '"',$offset);
}
if ($end) {
$link = substr_replace($link, '', $offset, $end-$offset);
}
return $link;
}
add_filter('the_content_more_link', 'remove_more');


I used to hate wordpress, really, I used to hate wordpress, so I spent along time writing my own cms in php, then, moved on the Ruby on Rails, and thought it was the best thing since… well, php. Then I moved into an SEO role at my last ‘real’ job, and found out really quickly, that when you have an idea, you have to get moving quickly! Love or Hate Wordpress