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. 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 […]

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 […]

BP Legacy Widgets have been progressively replaced by BP Block Widgets since version 9.0. They were moved into the BP Classic backwards compatibility Add-on during the 12.0.0 BP development cycle. 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) […]

This article examines what you can do as a plugin developer to maintain backwards-compatibility template support, while utilizing the newer template-loading approach as featured in BuddyPress 1.7. We will walk through a real-life case study involving the BP Follow plugin and what was done to update the plugin for BuddyPress 1.7. Intro If you created […]

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. 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 […]

Version 1.7 is a major BuddyPress feature release. BuddyPress 1.7 introduces many dozens of new features and enhancements, on top of hundreds of bugfixes. For Version 1.7, the database version (_bp_db_version in wp_options) changed to 6067, and the Trac revision was 6900. Read the full ticket log here here. Highlights Theme Compatibility – BuddyPress now […]

Archived file. Good only for BP 1.7 version BuddyPress 1.7 Theme Compatibility * Theme Authors, Make Sure Your Theme Registers BuddyPress Support – @boonebgorges * Add BuddyPress Styles To a Theme – @modemlooper * Overview of Theme Compatibility in BP 1.7 (Customization) – @hnla * Upgrading “Template Packed” Themes to BP 1.7 Theme Compatibility – […]

Archived file. Good up to BP 1.8. From BuddyPress 1.2 through 1.6.5, most WordPress themes went through the BP Compatibility process via the BuddyPress Template Pack plugin to align the HTML structure of the BP template files with that of the respective WP theme. BuddyPress 1.7 is now compatible with nearly all WordPress themes available […]

In BuddyPress 1.7, the Groups Component comes with a great Admin UI that allows Community Administrator to easily manage the created groups (members, settings…) directly from the WordPress backend. As plugin authors, I think we should enjoy this new area and let the Community Administrator manage the settings of the group extension we might use […]

bp_activity_add() This function was introduced in BuddyPress 1.1, it’s located in /bp-activity/bp-activity-functions.php at line 997 (version 1.7-beta1). It needs an array of arguments and returns the activity id once created by the method BP_Activity_Activity::save() BuddyPress uses some aliases to call this function from its different components as detailed in this chart : Functions Components Types […]