BuddyPress Codex

This page shows all the @ mentions you received throughout the site. Filter to Show @mentions in: Everything (default) Updates New Sites (if on Multisite installation) Posts Comments Friendships (if Friendships are enabled) New Groups (if Groups are enabled) Group Memberships (if Groups are enabled) Group Updates (if Groups are enabled) ⇒ Next: Activity → […]

This page is the record of all your activities throughout the site listed in chronological order. If you’re logged in, there’s a status update box before the activity stream where you can post what’s on your mind. Filter to Show: Everything (default) Updates New Sites (if on Multisite installation) Posts Comments Friendships (if Friendships are […]

1. Click on the “Register” link. Some sites use “Join Us”, “Sign Up”, or other terminology. 2. Fill in the forms. Some sites allow you to create your own blog. You can fill up the form to create one now, or choose to create a new blog later. 3. Click on the “Complete Sign Up” […]

This page lists all the notifications that you have either opened up to read or marked as already read. You have the option to delete the notifications one by one or in bulk. Any notification that you mark as “Unread” is automatically moved to the Notifications → Unread page. You can filter the order of […]

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). […]

Welcome Forum Volunteers Thank you for taking the time to provide support at the BuddyPress Forums. Please note that the rules and guidelines set up in the WordPress support forums apply here as well. The following documents will help you navigate through our Forums. 1. Forum Welcome – this document is in part directed towards […]

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 2.2 introduced the concept of member types. This functionality is outlined below. Registering member types BuddyPress itself does not register any member types. Plugins and themes can register member types using the bp_register_member_type() or the bp_register_member_types() function: The first parameter of bp_register_member_type() is a string identifier for the member type, used internally by BP as […]

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 […]