BuddyPress Codex

BuddyPress 2.0 allows admins to edit user profile fields from the Dashboard>>Users>>Edit User page. This extended profile page offers the ability to add your own settings for a user. This page gives a simple example of how to add the meta boxes to the extended profile page. What you add to the meta box can […]

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 added an “Extended Profile” tab into the Dashboard > Users interface. Just hover over the member’s username and click on the Extended Profiles link to get the xProfiles Admin Screen.

When writing BuddyPress themes and plugins, it can be essential to know the sequence in which action hooks are invoked. The diagram below is especially useful during the site loading process, and will help you make better informed choices of actions to hook into for the loading and initialization of your plugin or theme. The […]

If you use symbolic links (symlinks) for your WordPress plugin environment, you may need to do some additional configuration to ensure that BuddyPress assets are loaded correctly. If you find that CSS and Javascript assets are not being loaded correctly (the <link> tags are in the page source, but the paths are incorrect), try putting […]

Introduction BuddyPress strives for the most complete internal documentation possible. When contributing patches to BuddyPress, you are highly encouraged to document your code using our standards. We also welcome patches that provide new documentation, or correct/amend existing documentation. Standards BuddyPress’s documentation is based on WordPress’s PHP Documentation Standards. Familiarize yourself with that document before continuing […]

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 […]

BuddyPress Core is first taking care of the members. As a result, when you write a BuddyPress plugin, there is a very good chance that you’ve got to play with the finest element identifying the users : their ID. There are two scenarios: the logged in user and the user whose profile is displayed. Thankfully, […]

Using Javascipt or CSS in BuddyPress plugins are interesting ways to take care of the user experience. I think, as a plugin author, you need to have two concerns : you might not be the only one to use Javascript, other plugins can be activated in the community website, your CSS rules might not get […]

Where we are: users page in the admin screen What we want to do: add one or n members to a group What we want to get: an Add to BP Group menu in the Bulk Actions menu box What we need: a group ID, one or more users. Don’t forget to check the members […]