BuddyPress Codex

[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 [...]

On May 16, 2013, BuddyPress 1.7.2 was released to the public. This is a maintenance and security update. For Version 1.7.2, the database version (_bp_db_version in wp_options) was 6080, and the Trac revision was 7081. Summary Sanitization improvements (#4989, #4992, #4993, #4994, #4995). Register certain activity actions only if their components are active (#4979, #4980). [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 > [...]

Sections Public Messages Private Messages Private Message Screens How to Send a Private Message Public Messages BuddyPress provides ways for you to send a message publicly to another member of the site or network. Members will be notified of public messages by a new message count in the Notifications circle in Admin/Toolbar as well as [...]

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 [...]

With the stable release of BP 1.7 came the introduction of a new means of rendering the members navigational elements. Long discussed and requested had been the desire to have the menu navigation rendered as a true UL construct with sub menu items as correctly nested ul/li elements as this would allow for not only [...]

Description Outputs ID number of user. If placed outside of a Members loop, it will default to the ID of the logged in user. Usage Parameters None. Example To get the current user’s ‘Birthday’: To get User 4′s ‘Hire Date’: Source File bp_profile_field_data is located in bp-xprofile/bp-xprofile-template.php.