BuddyPress Codex

After activating BuddyPress, you will be automatically redirected to the BuddyPress Welcome Screen if this is the first time you’ve activated BuddyPress or if you’ve just upgraded BuddyPress. After taking some time to check out the new features added to the plugin, go to Network Admin menu > Settings > BuddyPress > Components to begin […]

You can install BuddyPress in your Network (multisite) in either of the following setups. Network-wide A. BuddyPress root blog in Main Site B. BuddyPress root blog in Secondary Site One site of the Network C. BuddyPress Activated in Main Site only D. BuddyPress Activated in Secondary Site only Posts, comments, or activities of the users […]

Out of the box, all sites in a multisite install will share BuddyPress tables. That means that with a component like Extended Profiles, all sites will share the same profile fields, and changing them in one site will affect all others. However, with a few modifications you can create separate tables for each site, so […]

On February 17th, 2015, BuddyPress 2.2.1 was released to the public. This is a maintenance update. For Version 2.2.1, the database version (_bp_db_version in wp_options) was 9181, and the Trac revision was 9502. Summary Multisite: Deleting a post from non-root blog may delete root pages (#6226). Activity: ‘just-me’ scope not using correct user ID (#6215). […]

Version 2.2 is a major BuddyPress feature release. For Version 2.2, the database version (_bp_db_version in wp_options) was 9181, and the Trac revision was 9441. Read the full ticket log here here. Highlights Introduce Member Types API – Registering member types enables a strict separation of different and explicit types of community members. View the […]

Note: This guide is for use with BuddyPress 2.2+. Any public registered post type can be tracked into the activity streams once it has been published. Here are the different options to add the “buddypress-activity” support to a public post type. Activate the Blogs component. If you activate the Blogs component from the BuddyPress component’s […]

BuddyPress provides admin dashboard panels to help you manage all the different activities throughout the site (added in BuddyPress 1.6). Sections General type Options All Spam Search All Activity form Bulk Actions (Apply) Options Mark As Spam Not Spam Delete Permanently Show All Activity Types (Filter) Options Created a group Friendships accepted Joined a group […]

Version 2.1 is a major BuddyPress feature release. For Version 2.1, the database version (_bp_db_version in wp_options) was 8311, and the Trac revision was 9032. Read the full ticket log here here. Highlights New @mentions interface – type a @ when leaving a status update or commenting on an activity item or blog post, and […]

Site Administrators on non-Multisite installations can now perform spam actions from Dashboard > Users > All Users just like Super Administrators of Multisite installations have been able to do.

Version 2.0 is a major BuddyPress feature release that introduces several new Administrative features, a number of new APIs and a slew of “under the hood” enhancements that include significant gains in performance via caching and streamlined queries. For Version 2.0, the database version (_bp_db_version in wp_options) was 7892, and the Trac revision was 8279. […]