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BuddyPress Components and Features

Published on May 17th, 2013 by @mercime

[Being updated for BP 1.7+] Extended Profiles Showcase your community members by creating an unlimited number of profile fields and groups of profile fields custom-made and meaninful for your community. Available profile field types include: text box, date selector, radio buttons, selectform, multiple selectforms, and a birthday field. * More about Extended Profiles Member Account [...]

Groups

Published on May 8th, 2013 by @mercime

Groups in BuddyPress are gatherings of members, posts, and any other user-generated content. A member can create a group in BuddyPress (if enabled by Super/Site Admin) and thus becomes the group administrator. Every group includes a Status Update form for members and the latest group news which can be kept up to date by group [...]

Members

Published on May 7th, 2013 by @mercime

BuddyPress makes it easy for you to build your community or social network and establish relationships among members with default components such as Extended Profiles, Activity Streams, Friend Connections, Private Messaging, User Groups, and Blogs (multisite installation only) and major features like Notifications. The following is an overview of the default membership features using BuddyPress. [...]

Activity Streams

Published on May 7th, 2013 by @mercime

Activity streams aggregate all of your activities across a BuddyPress installation. All of your friends’ activities are also recorded so you can check what your friends are doing on the site. Enabled BuddyPress components make use of the activity stream component, which means any sort of activity can be recorded. Blogs posts, new friendships and [...]

Extended Profiles

Published on May 7th, 2013 by @mercime

Highlight the best of your community members by creating an unlimited number of Extended Profile (xProfile) Fields and/or groups of Extended Profile Fields custom-made for your social network. To start creating xProfile fields, go to dashboard menu Users > Profile Fields. If you have a multisite installation with BuddyPress activated network-wide via Network Admin > [...]

BuddyPress Widgets

Published on May 7th, 2013 by @mercime

BuddyPress provides widgets which you can add to any of your theme’s widget areas. To activate these, go to dashboard menu Appearance > Widgets. (BuddyPress) Members (BuddyPress) Recently Active Members (BuddyPress) Who’s Online (BuddyPress) Groups (BuddyPress) Recent Networkwide Posts – Multisite Installations only (BuddyPress) Members Options Title: Set the title to be displayed in the [...]

Version 1.7.1

Published on April 30th, 2013 by Boone Gorges

On April 29, 2013, BuddyPress 1.7.1 was released to the public. This is a maintenance update. For Version 1.7.1, the database version (_bp_db_version in wp_options) was 6080, and the Trac revision was 6968. Summary Fixed a deprecated jQuery call (#4964). Improved the construction of avatar URLs on multisite setups (#4948). Fixed a number of instances [...]

Version 1.7

Published on April 6th, 2013 by Boone Gorges

Version 1.7 is a major BuddyPress feature release. BuddyPress 1.7 introduces many dozens of new features and enhancements, on top of hundreds of bugfixes. For Version 1.7, the database version (_bp_db_version in wp_options) changed to 6067, and the Trac revision was 6900. Read the full ticket log here here. Highlights Theme Compatibility – BuddyPress now [...]

Installing Group and Sitewide Forums (v1.6)

Published on August 14th, 2012 by @mercime

Installing Group and Sitewide Forums (v1.6) The following is a step-by-step illustrated guide for installing the Group and/or Sitewide Forums (bbPress 2.1) for BuddyPress 1.6+ on WordPress 3.4.1 after completing the BuddyPress installation wizard. Forums Setup Forums in BuddyPress make use of the bbPress software to function and we made it easy for you to [...]

Installing Group and Sitewide Forums (v1.5)

Published on August 6th, 2012 by @mercime

A step-by-step illustrated guide for installing the Group and/or Sitewide Forums (bbPress 2.0) for BuddyPress 1.5+ on WordPress 3.2.1 after completing the BuddyPress installation wizard. Forums Setup Forums in BuddyPress make use of the bbPress software to function and we made it easy for you to install from the wp-admin backend with a few clicks. [...]

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