- Version:6.2.0
- Last updated:3 weeks ago
- Active installations:200,000+
- WordPress Version:4.8 or higher
- Tested up to:5.5.0
- PHP Version:5.6 or higher
Description
Are you looking for modern, robust, and sophisticated social network software? BuddyPress is a suite of components that are common to a typical social network, and allows for great add-on features through WordPressās extensive plugin system.
Aimed at site builders & developers, BuddyPress is focused on ease of integration, ease of use, and extensibility. It is deliberately powerful yet unbelievably simple social network software, built by contributors to WordPress.
Members can register on your site to create user profiles, have private conversations, make social connections, create and interact in groups, and much more. Truly a social network in a box, BuddyPress helps you build a home for your company, school, sports team, or other niche community.
BUILT WITH DEVELOPERS IN MIND
BuddyPress helps site builders & developers add community features to their websites. It comes with a robust theme compatibility API that does its best to make every BuddyPress content page look and feel right with just about any WordPress theme. You will likely need to adjust some styling on your own to make everything look pristine.
BuddyPress themes are just WordPress themes with additional templates, and with a little work, you could easily create your own, too! A handful of BuddyPress-specific themes are readily available for download from WordPress.org, and lots more are available from third-party theme authors.
BuddyPress also comes with built-in support for Akismet and bbPress, two very popular and very powerful WordPress plugins. If youāre using either, visit their settings pages and ensure everything is configured to your liking.
Installation
REQUIREMENTS
To run BuddyPress, we recommend your host supports:
- PHP version 7.2 or greater.
- MySQL version 5.6 or greater, or, MariaDB version 10.0 or greater.
- HTTPS support.
Automatic installation is the easiest option as WordPress handles everything itself. To do an automatic install of BuddyPress, log in to your WordPress dashboard, navigate to the Plugins menu and click Add New.
In the search field type āBuddyPressā and click Search Plugins. Once youāve found it, you can view details about the latest release, such as community reviews, ratings, and description. Install BuddyPress by simply pressing āInstall Nowā.
Once activated:
- Visit āSettings > BuddyPress > Componentsā and adjust the active components to match your community. (You can always toggle these later.)
- Visit āSettings > BuddyPress > Pagesā and setup your directories and special pages. We create a few automatically, but suggest you customize these to fit the flow and verbiage of your site.
- Visit āSettings > BuddyPress > Settingsā and take a moment to match BuddyPressās settings to your expectations. We pick the most common configuration by default, but every community is different.
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