BuddyPress Codex

Since BuddyPress 2.4 Groups and Member are able to upload Cover Images to be used on the single Group and Member pages. If you would like to use Cover Images when building custom loops you can use the following code to retrieve the cover images whilst inside your loop. Inside Groups Loops Inside Members Loops

This page shows the list of Groups which you have joined. ⇒ Next: Groups → Invitations ⇐ Previous: Friends → Requests ⇐ Back to Member Guide

BuddyPress 2.2 introduced the concept of member types. This functionality is outlined below. Registering member types BuddyPress itself does not register any member types. Plugins and themes can register member types using the bp_register_member_type() or the bp_register_member_types() function: The first parameter of bp_register_member_type() is a string identifier for the member type, used internally by BP as […]

Hey there guys, i’m working on a website where i’m integrating s2member functionality with buddypress. I thought some of the things I’ve come across may be useful to other people. 1. Filter Users Displayed in Members Directory by s2member role. In your plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/members/ folder edit the file “members-loop.php”. Just under at the top 20 lines […]

An introduction to BuddyPress for members. Registration Registration Process Member Pages Activity Activity → Personal Activity → Mentions Activity → Favorites Activity → Friends Activity → Groups Profile Profile → View Profile → Edit Profile → Change Profile Photo Notifications Notifications → Unread Notifications → Read Messages Messages → Inbox Messages → Starred Messages → […]

By default, BuddyPress will load the Activity tab when clicking on a member’s profile link. If you would like to change this default landing tab to something else than the Activity tab you can do so. Constants such as this are best placed in files that load before BP is fully loaded. Add the code […]

Where we are: users page in the admin screen What we want to do: add one or n members to a group What we want to get: an Add to BP Group menu in the Bulk Actions menu box What we need: a group ID, one or more users. Don’t forget to check the members […]

BuddyPress has some nice built-in tools for collecting data from your members. You’ll be calling the “extended profile data” or “xProfile” in BuddyPress-speak in your theme. You can retrieve and display this data without modifying template files by attaching a new function to an existing action hook provided by BuddyPress. For example, Carlos has registered […]

If you’ve added a new navigation item to the single Member page, you may want to add the same link to the Toolbar Menu. Let’s say you added a tab called ‘Dogs’ – this will add the same link to the Toolbar Menu. Put it in the same file that adds your tab on the […]

Documentation for the BP_Group_Member_Query class, introduced in BuddyPress 1.8, will live here.