Description
Are you looking for modern, robust, and sophisticated social network software? BuddyPress is a suite of components that are common to a typical social network, and allows for great add-on features through WordPress’s extensive plugin system.
Aimed at site builders & developers, BuddyPress is focused on ease of integration, ease of use, and extensibility. It is deliberately powerful yet unbelievably simple social network software, built by contributors to WordPress.
Members can register on your site to create user profiles, have private conversations, make social connections, create and interact in groups, and much more. Truly a social network in a box, BuddyPress helps you build a home for your company, school, sports team, or other niche community.
Built with developers in mind
BuddyPress helps site builders & developers add community features to their websites. It comes with a robust theme compatibility API that does its best to make every BuddyPress content page look and feel right with just about any WordPress theme. You will likely need to adjust some styling on your own to make everything look pristine.
BuddyPress themes are just WordPress themes with additional templates, and with a little work, you could easily create your own, too! A handful of BuddyPress-specific themes are readily available for download from WordPress.org, and lots more are available from third-party theme authors.
BuddyPress also comes with built-in support for Akismet and bbPress, two very popular and very powerful WordPress plugins. If you’re using either, visit their settings pages and ensure everything is configured to your liking.
The BuddyPress ecosystem
WordPress.org is home to some amazing extensions for BuddyPress, including:
Search WordPress.org for “BuddyPress” to find them all!
Join our community
If you’re interested in contributing to BuddyPress, we’d love to have you. Head over to the BuddyPress Documentation site to find out how you can pitch in.
BuddyPress is available in many languages thanks to the volunteer efforts of individuals all around the world. Check out our translations page on the BuddyPress Documentation site for more details. If you are a polyglot, please consider helping translate BuddyPress into your language.
Growing the BuddyPress community means better software for everyone!
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Blocks
This plugin provides 1 block.
- BuddyPress
Installation
Requirements
To run BuddyPress, we recommend your host supports:
- PHP version 7.2 or greater.
- MySQL version 5.6 or greater, or, MariaDB version 10.0 or greater.
- HTTPS support.
Automatic installation
Automatic installation is the easiest option as WordPress handles everything itself. To do an automatic install of BuddyPress, log in to your WordPress dashboard, navigate to the Plugins menu and click Add New.
In the search field type “BuddyPress” and click Search Plugins. Once you’ve found it, you can view details about the latest release, such as community reviews, ratings, and description. Install BuddyPress by simply pressing “Install Now”.
Once activated:
- Visit ‘Settings > BuddyPress > Components’ and adjust the active components to match your community (you can always toggle these later).
- Visit ‘Settings > BuddyPress > Pages’ and setup your directories and special pages. We create a few automatically, but suggest you customize these to fit the flow and verbiage of your site.
- Visit ‘Settings > BuddyPress > Settings’ and take a moment to match BuddyPress’s settings to your expectations. We pick the most common configuration by default, but every community is different.
FAQ
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Can I use my existing WordPress theme?
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Yes! BuddyPress works out-of-the-box with nearly every WordPress theme.
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Will this work on WordPress multisite?
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Yes! If your WordPress installation has multisite enabled, BuddyPress will support the global tracking of blogs, posts, comments, and even custom post types with a little bit of custom code.
Furthermore, BuddyPress can be activated and operate in just about any scope you need for it to:
- Activate at the site level to only load BuddyPress on that site.
- Activate at the network level for full integration with all sites in your network. (This is the most common multisite installation type.)
- Enable multiblog mode to allow your BuddyPress content to be displayed on any site in your WordPress Multisite network, using the same central data.
- Extend BuddyPress with a third-party multi-network plugin to allow each site or network to have an isolated and dedicated community, all from the same WordPress installation.
Read custom BuddyPress activations for more information.
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Where can I get support?
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Our community provides free support at https://buddypress.org/support/.
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Where can I find documentation?
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Our documentation site can be found at https://codex.buddypress.org/.
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Where can I report a bug?
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Report bugs, suggest ideas, and participate in development at https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org.
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Where can I get the bleeding edge version of BuddyPress?
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Check out the development trunk of BuddyPress from Subversion at https://buddypress.svn.wordpress.org/trunk/, or clone from Git at git://buddypress.git.wordpress.org/.
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Who builds BuddyPress?
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BuddyPress is free software, built by an international community of volunteers. Some contributors to BuddyPress are employed by companies that use BuddyPress, while others are consultants who offer BuddyPress-related services for hire. No one is paid by the BuddyPress project for his or her contributions.
If you would like to provide monetary support to BuddyPress, please consider a donation to the WordPress Foundation, or ask your favorite contributor how they prefer to have their efforts rewarded.
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Discussion Forums
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Try bbPress. It integrates with BuddyPress Groups, Profiles, and Notifications. Each group on your site can choose to have its own forum, and each user’s topics, replies, favorites, and subscriptions appear in their profiles.
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“BuddyPress” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors“BuddyPress” has been translated into 46 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
Translate “BuddyPress” into your language.
Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
11.4.0
See: https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/version-11-4-0/
11.3.2
See: https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/version-11-3-2/
11.3.1
See: https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/version-11-3-1/
11.2.0
See: https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/version-11-2-0/
11.1.0
See: https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/version-11-1-0/
11.0.0
See: https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/version-11-0-0/
10.6.0
See: https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/version-10-6-0/
10.5.0
See: https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/version-10-5-0/
10.4.0
See: https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/version-10-4-0/
10.3.0
See: https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/version-10-3-0/
10.2.0
See: https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/version-10-2-0/
10.1.0
See: https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/version-10-1-0/
10.0.0
See: https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/version-10-0-0/
9.2.0
See: https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/version-9-2-0/
9.1.1
See: https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/version-9-1-1/
9.0.0
See: https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/version-9-0-0/
8.0.0
See: https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/version-8-0-0/