BuddyPress is a great plugin! We were able to create several independent social networks on the multisite. The basic functionality of the plugin works very well. We include additional features with other plugins from the BuddyPress community. And it's all free! Thanks to the developers. I give 5 stars!

To start with BuddyPress on its own is an absolute mess if you are trying to create a private social media site. It just doesn't get the job done. Yes, there are third-party plugins that can seemingly do everything that you need but many are not up to date or only work with some themes and the entire thing just becomes an incohesive mess of plugins that were not meant to work together. I did get a site working nearly the way I wanted it, but this was mostly due to Wbcom who seems to be a developer that rounds out all of the hard edges of BuddyPress through themes and plugins. I guess if you think of BuddyPress as a platform for experienced developers like Wbcom to make a useful social media site then I should change the rating to five stars. BuddyPress as it is requires a tremendous amount of help from various plugins and themes before a social media site can be created. There are few resources to guide you through the process other than those that describe the particular plugin or theme which is hardly unbias as the majority have paid options to upsell. The BuddyPress site itself has a tremendous amount of information but none of it very useful. There are a lot of unanswered questions that I found in my search with similar questions that I had. Many of the forum questions are a decade old and it is hard to know if they are relevant still. Aside form that the documentation is extensive but it is the kind of documentation that mostly reiterates the same description of options that are in the plugin pages next to each option. What might be really useful is a wiki that guides a user through some common configuration options for a handful of different use cases. Even if using third party plugins to reach the goal since the guide wouldn't be created by the plugin dev a user could trust that it was selected for the task and not in the hopes of upselling. I'm not against people making money, and I'm happy to pay for code that is truly useful and helps me reach my website goals. In fact, after this experience the options that came up in my search that do not use BuddyPress but have annual license fees for turnkey solutions for a social media Website look more appealing than when I started. I just hoped to do it with BuddyPress. If a social media site to help people create social media sites with BuddyPress would help us get there I'd be happy to host it and learn by trying to build it. I just cannot seem to get off the ground with anything useful other than Wbcom which I guess might be the way to go if using BuddyPresss.

They say at the bottom of the download page "BuddyPress works out-of-the-box with nearly every WordPress theme," this claim is misleading. I have installed BuddyPress on 4 premium themes and many manual configurations were needed. The worst thing about BuddyPress is that it ignores some of the theme and site settings and there is no built-in settings page to disable the sidebar, for example. It's the little basic things that make me rather pay money for a premium community/profile plugin than a free version like BuddyPress.

If it were not commercial addons to BP (Youzify), it would not be possible to use it. Plugin that stopped in the 90s. Email service terrible. Archaic design. No SVG support, even though BP provides an SVG logo on its website:https://codex.buddypress.org/official-fonts-and-logos/. There are not many functionalities that, for example, also have free plugins available in the WP repository such as Ultimate Memeber or Peepso. I do not recommend. It's a waste of time.

A great idea! Fantastic tool - if it worked. But it doesn't work. It has several breaks in the installation, and most commonly for me, is the creation of the register and activate pages. Pretty important features for a community building tool. See, when users can't register - there won't be much of a community. Tried several installs, on several platforms. It just doesn't work. Steer clear of this one.

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