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

Prologue In the past, it has been extremely difficult to filter any BuddyPress template loop. For example, let’s say I wanted all activity loops to show the last five entries instead of the default of 20. It was possible, but basically you’d either have to requery the activity loop to grab the last five entries […]

BuddyPress uses loops to display the content of its components. In this article you will focus on how to “rearrange” the content displayed in four of its major components : Members, Groups, Blogs and finally Activity. You will achieve this thanks to the type or action argument of the init functions of each of these […]

Just as you use “The Loop” to loop through posts in WordPress, each content type in BuddyPress has its own custom loop. By using these loops in your template, you can output any kind of information and really customize how content is displayed within your BuddyPress theme. The default BuddyPress template files makes use of […]

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 […]

The profile data loop is the most complex out of all the custom BuddyPress loops. It’s actually two loops in one, the first is to loop through profile field groups, and the second to loop through profile fields in that profile field group. Standard Loop Accepted Parameters The bp_group_has_profile() function will accept a number of […]

The private messages loop can be used to output a user’s private messages, both from their inbox and sentbox. Standard Loop Accepted Parameters The bp_has_message_threads() function will accept a number of parameters that will manipulate the data being returned. user_id optional The ID of the user to fetch messages for. By default this will be […]

The group members loop can be used to display members that have joined a group. It can be used nested inside the bp_has_groups() loop, or on its own with a group_id parameter. Standard Loop Accepted Parameters The bp_group_has_members() function will accept a number of parameters that will manipulate the data being returned. group_id required The […]

NOTE: This will only work with an installation of BuddyPress and WordPress MU or WordPress with multisite enabled. The site blogs loop can be used to output a list of blogs that have been created on your installation. Standard Loop Accepted Parameters The bp_has_blogs() function will accept a number of parameters that will manipulate the […]

The site groups loop can be used to output a list of groups created on your site. Standard Loop Accepted Parameters The bp_has_groups() function will accept a number of parameters that will manipulate the data being returned. type optional Defines the type of groups to return. Accepted arguments: active, newest, popular, random, alphabetical, most-forum-topics, most-forum-posts […]