Yes, there are third-party plugins that can seemingly do everything that you need but many are not up to date or only work with some themes and the entire thing just becomes an incohesive mess of plugins that were not meant to work together.
I did get a site working nearly the way I wanted it, but this was mostly due to Wbcom who seems to be a developer that rounds out all of the hard edges of BuddyPress through themes and plugins. I guess if you think of BuddyPress as a platform for experienced developers like Wbcom to make a useful social media site then I should change the rating to five stars.
BuddyPress as it is requires a tremendous amount of help from various plugins and themes before a social media site can be created. There are few resources to guide you through the process other than those that describe the particular plugin or theme which is hardly unbias as the majority have paid options to upsell.
The BuddyPress site itself has a tremendous amount of information but none of it very useful. There are a lot of unanswered questions that I found in my search with similar questions that I had. Many of the forum questions are a decade old and it is hard to know if they are relevant still.
Aside form that the documentation is extensive but it is the kind of documentation that mostly reiterates the same description of options that are in the plugin pages next to each option.
What might be really useful is a wiki that guides a user through some common configuration options for a handful of different use cases.
Even if using third party plugins to reach the goal since the guide wouldn't be created by the plugin dev a user could trust that it was selected for the task and not in the hopes of upselling. I'm not against people making money, and I'm happy to pay for code that is truly useful and helps me reach my website goals. In fact, after this experience the options that came up in my search that do not use BuddyPress but have annual license fees for turnkey solutions for a social media Website look more appealing than when I started.
I just hoped to do it with BuddyPress. If a social media site to help people create social media sites with BuddyPress would help us get there I'd be happy to host it and learn by trying to build it. I just cannot seem to get off the ground with anything useful other than Wbcom which I guess might be the way to go if using BuddyPresss. They say at the bottom of the download page "BuddyPress works out-of-the-box with nearly every WordPress theme," this claim is misleading.
I have installed BuddyPress on 4 premium themes and many manual configurations were needed. The worst thing about BuddyPress is that it ignores some of the theme and site settings and there is no built-in settings page to disable the sidebar, for example. If it were not commercial addons to BP Youzify , it would not be possible to use it.
Plugin that stopped in the 90s. Email service terrible. Archaic design. There are not many functionalities that, for example, also have free plugins available in the WP repository such as Ultimate Memeber or Peepso. I do not recommend. It's a waste of time. A great idea! Fantastic tool - if it worked. But it doesn't work. It has several breaks in the installation, and most commonly for me, is the creation of the register and activate pages.
Pretty important features for a community building tool. See, when users can't register - there won't be much of a community. Tried several installs, on several platforms. It just doesn't work. Steer clear of this one. Interested in development? Changelog 9. BuddyPress for WordPress is a content management system designed to bring people together. It allows users with similar interests to connect and communicate with one another.
Some great use examples of BuddyPress are:. The sky is really the limit with BuddyPress. This guide will walk you through installing and configuring BuddyPress on your WordPress site — allowing you to build your own interactive online community.
You must update your permalink structure to something other than the default for it to work. We will show you how to update your WordPress permalinks. If you do not see this warning you have already changed your permalink settings and can skip to the next guide. The BuddyPress settings allow you to customize your BuddyPress community options to fit your website needs. For example, you can choose if you want users to private message each other, upload custom profile photos, or delete their own accounts.
The Buddypress website says this can be done, but after I was done I could only access the static pages and not any of the built-in dynamic pages. Join today and get access to 1,'s of books and videos. Sign up today! Log in Username. Remember me. Log in Forgot your password? Start Newer 1 Older End 1. Hi, After viewing the Social Media section of your Wordpress training I installed Buddypress as part of my MU website, and I have a number of questions regarding the overall integration and how users share content with each other just like on other social networks.
My first problem is that the default installation doesn't show me nearly as much information as shown in the video. I know I can add widgets to supply more content etc. For example I only see a "home" page and a "sample page" in my installation whereas the video shows a number of other pages which I assume contain specific content.
A screenshot of my page is attached. My goal is to integrate Buddypress with my existing Wordpress site while keeping the existing theme for my MU main website, which is a news portal. I want to add Buddypress as a way for users to register, create a social profile and interact with other members.
When a visitor comes to the main website and clicks "register" or "login" it will provide them access to the members only content. The way I have things, my main site is the news portal, and I want my social portal to be another MU site using Buddypress, which will manage all the user profiles and registrations for all my MU sites.
So once a member is logged on to the Buddypress site, they should appear logged on to all the other sites and be able to manage their profiles from one central location.
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