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Overview
Compatibility
Installation instructions
Customer support & learning resources
Changelog
Main benefits
Ease of integration
Extensive plugin system
User profile creation
Private conversations
Group interactions
About this plugin
Categories: Social Networking
Version: 14.0.0
Last updated: 12-07-2024
WordPress version: 6.1
Tested up to: 6.6
PHP version required: 5.6
Languages: English (Australia), English (Canada) [+46]
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Overview
BuddyPress is a versatile and robust social network plugin for WordPress, designed to add social network capabilities to any WordPress site. Aimed at site builders and developers, BuddyPress offers a seamless integration experience and extensive extensibility through WordPress’s plugin system. With BuddyPress, members can register on your site, create user profiles, engage in private conversations, form social connections, participate in groups, and enjoy many other social networking features. It is highly customizable, allowing developers to pair it with any WordPress theme, and it also offers built-in support for Akismet and bbPress. The plugin’s extensibility is further enhanced by various add-ons available on WordPress.org, such as BP Attachments and BP Classic, ensuring backward compatibility with older BuddyPress versions. The BuddyPress community welcomes contributions and offers multilingual support, emphasizing community growth and better software development for everyone involved.
Ease of Integration and Use
- Focused on ease of integration and use for site builders and developers.
- Comes with a robust theme compatibility API to ensure BuddyPress content pages look right with most WordPress themes.
Extensibility
- Allows for great add-on features through WordPress’s extensive plugin system.
- Supports additional templates and themes, making it easy to create custom BuddyPress themes.
Built-in Support for Popular Plugins
- Includes built-in support for Akismet and bbPress, two very popular WordPress plugins.
- Ensures seamless integration with these plugins to enhance functionality.
Community and Language Support
- Available in many languages thanks to volunteer efforts.
- Encourages contributions from the community to improve the software and expand its capabilities.
Rating and reviews
Jeremy
26 Jun, 2024
The update to the new major version absolutely destroyed my BuddyPress community and content. Even after trying the BP Classic plugin, it was still non-functional, BP links would not go to the right pages, and lots of errors and 404’s. I’ve tried troubleshooting: I didn’t have any 3rd party BuddyPress plugins I, ran BP repair tools, cleaned my database out, lots. I’m just glad most of our community content was in bbPress, the forum software. That is all preserved. All the updates, memberships, friendships, and more that we depended on BuddyPress for is ruined. 🙁
Buddypress brought some interesting community functions, but after this disaster of a release, and the huge problems and time its been costing me, we need to reassess if it will be a part of our community’s future. I will look into a few other resolutions and if those don’t work, I’m giving up on Buddypress completely.
This topic was modified 1 month, 3 weeks ago by Jeremy.
This topic was modified 1 month, 3 weeks ago by Jeremy.
locker17
23 May, 2024
I am new to buddypress and try to understand the functions. I often work with elementor but since version 12 there are no physical wordpress pages I can load to the the editor.Where is the documentation for that? One sentence here, one sentence there. Sorry, but your documentation is absolutely horrible. You hardly find what you want.
This topic was modified 6 months, 1 week ago by locker17.
Ketil Ervik
23 May, 2024
It is not possible to link the pages to buddypress! Have tried and refreshed permalinks but it didn’t help! Have tested buddypress over the years, this was the last time. Very poor plugin and no howtos.
This topic was modified 1 month, 4 weeks ago by Ketil Ervik.
clickforcharity.net
18 May, 2024
All ok – its somewhat buggy but then it can’t be used to kill or enslave people so it doesn’t have big budget!
This topic was modified 2 months ago by clickforcharity.net.
This topic was modified 2 months ago by clickforcharity.net.
This topic was modified 2 months ago by clickforcharity.net.
olamyklebost
12 Mar, 2024
I am running WP 6.4.3 with the BuddyApp and BuddyApp Child theme. Tried several times, always blank web page.
