BuddyPress Codex

We are currently working on a documentation reboot, here’s the new home of the best accurate docs (WIP). You’re very welcome to contribute to it. You can add links to: (a) the directory pages of your activated BuddyPress components and/or (b) your respective Member screens, in any of the navigation menus available in your theme. […]

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 […]

BuddyPress 2.1 introduced three new features that specifically require template updates in order that they function. @mentions Interface Password Strength Meter Activity Show Filters @mentions Auto Suggest @mentions introduces a drop down panel that will auto suggest user names to select from the characters you start typing. For this feature to work you will need […]

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 ( aka Site Tracking ) If you activate the Site […]

Activity dropdown filters are used in order to let a user filter the activity stream in three main contexts: the activity directory, the single member activity page and the single group activity page. Version 2.1 of BuddyPress introduced the template tag bp_activity_show_filters() to dynamically generate the options of the activity dropdown filters. While the BP […]

bp_activity_set_action() is used to set activity actions. bp_activity_set_action() should only be invoked through the ‘bp_register_activity_actions’ action. Usage Parameters $component_id The unique string ID of the component the activity action is attached to. Possible values can be one of the BuddyPress optional components or an optional component the plugin is creating : ‘activity’ ‘blogs’ ‘friends’ ‘groups’ […]

User Guides are submitted by the members of the BuddyPress community. Unlike the regular guides to BuddyPress functions, actions, loops they will tend to cover useful tips or custom functions to achieving specific functionality over and above the default component rendering. BuddyPress has a great community of skilled developers and users developing sites and writing […]

BuddyPress provides admin dashboard panels to help you manage all the different activities throughout the site, similar to the way you manage comments and other content. This screen is customizable in the same ways as other management screens, and you can act on activities using the on-hover action links or the Bulk Actions. There are […]

This section provides an overview of the available tools to help you manage your BuddyPress community. Sections Back-end Administration Panels Front-end Management Tools Back-end Administration Panels Settings → BuddyPress (single site, multisite) Tab: Components Tab: Pages Tab: Settings Appearance → Menus BuddyPress Menu: Logged In links BuddyPress Menu: Logged Out links Users Link: Extended Profile […]