BuddyPress Codex

For New Installations: The following is a step-by-step guide for installing the Group and/or Sitewide Forums  for bbPress 2.3+ and BuddyPress 1.7+ ***To upgrade BP 1.6.5 installations with internal BuddyPress Group Forums using bbPress 1, please go to http://codex.buddypress.org/user/buddypress-site-administration/migrating-from-old-forums-to-bbpress-2/ Forums Setup Forums in BuddyPress make use of the bbPress software to function and we made [...]

Recently, bbPress 2.2+ introduced support for BuddyPress. However, BuddyPress already has a Discussion Forums component that is packaged with the plugin. We don’t recommend that you use both bbPress and BP’s Discussion Forums at the same time.  So which one should you use? For most users, we recommend bbPress. bbPress is more flexible, more robust, [...]

So you’ve been using BuddyPress’ built-in group forums since BuddyPress 1.5, but would like to use the new bbPress plugin to power your forums instead. Gotcha.  You’ll need to migrate your existing group forum content over to bbPress as well.  Don’t worry!  This is what this article is all about. Let’s get started! (1) Backup [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

The forum topics loop can be used to output a list of forum topics. Standard Loop Accepted Parameters The bp_has_forum_topics() function will accept a number of parameters that will manipulate the data being returned. type optional List forum topics by type. Accepted arguments: newest,popular,unreplied,tags (if type equals “tags”, define the “search_terms” argument and list the [...]

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The developer docs are here to help you, as a developer understand how BuddyPress works and can be extended upon. So far we have custom loops documented, which is important for theme developers who want to customize the output of BuddyPress screens. We’re also building up a comprehensive list of actions and filters within BuddyPress, [...]