Best BuddyPress Demo Website Setup Guide 2021

BuddyPress is one of the most powerful WordPress social network plugin. BuddyPress and it’s addons allows you to create a featured social network website like Facebook. If you always wished to have a website for your community whether it’s for your school, college, business, club members, or just simply a private community website then this WordPress plugin can be the perfect choice for you. You will have member profiles, activity streams, user groups, messaging, notifications and more.
Creating a Buddypress Demo website is completely free and very easy. It donot require any prior coding knowledge only simple WordPress setup experience is enough.
let’s create a BuddyPress demo using our free BuddyPress Theme BuddyX and some plugins .

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Setup BuddyPress Demo

Here in this video I will show you how create a BuddyPress demo to test and understand it’s features how everything will look with BuddyX theme. We recommend to create your demo as it will be easy to delete in just one click.

BuddyPress Demo with BuddyX Theme

BuddyPress easily integrate with WordPress plugins for LMS and Marketplaces.
checkout all the BuddyPres demos we have created using BuddyX theme and LMS plugins LearnDash, LifterLMS, LearnPress, TutorLMS, Dokan Marketplace, WC Vendors, gamipress, BadgeOs etc.

BuddyX Preview

BuddyPress Demos with Reign BuddyPress Themes

Reign is our premium theme which have dedicated support for LMS and Multi Vendor plugins and offers dedicated Reign Addons to setup your right combination with BuddyPress, BuddyBoss platform or even PeepSo.

Checkout all the Reign addons to understand what we mean.

checkout all our Reign Demos here.

Social Community

BuddyPress Demo with Reign Theme – Click here | Try Sandbox
BuddyBoss Platform Demo with Reign Theme – Click here
PeepSo Demo with Reign Theme – Click here | Try Sandbox

Social Learning LMS

LearnDash Demo with Reign Theme – Click here | Try Sandbox
Sensei Demo with Reign Theme – Click here
Tutor LMS Demo with Reign Theme – Click here
LifterLMS Demo with Reign Theme – Click here | Try Sandbox

Social Marketplace – Multi Vendor E-commerce

Dokan Demo with Reign Theme – Click here | Try Sandbox
WCFM Demo with Reign Theme – Click here
WC Vendors Demo with Reign Theme – Click here | Try Sandbox

Community Event

Event Manager Demo with Reign Theme – Click here

Community Job Board

WP Job Manager Demo with Reign Theme – Click here | Try Sandbox

Membership Directory

GeoDirectory Demo with Reign Theme – Click here
BuddyPress Demo with Reign BuddyPress Theme – Click Here
BuddyPress and BuddyBoss Platform Demo with Free BuddyX Theme – Click Here

To help you test BuddyPress, we are giving you a live Sandbox BuddyPress Demo website using our Reign BuddyPress Theme.

BuddyPress Dark Mode Demo

Reign theme offers multiple theme color scheme along with the dark mode.
BuddyPress Dark Mode Demo here

BuddyPress provides a unique social aspect to your website and helps in creating social Learning, Social Marketplace and Social blogging platform. Check out multiple demos of how BuddyPress integrates with LMS Plugins like LearnDash, Tutor LMS, Lifter LMS, and LearnPress. We have also built some powerful BuddyPress add-ons that are included in the demo. These BuddyPress add-ons add many required functionality to a social networking website such as adding more privacy control to your community, customizing the activity stream options, adding hashtags feature, adding status updates and moods, and a lot more. Take a look:

Features of BuddyPress Plugin

Now, we know what BuddyPress does. Let’s jump into the features we get out of the box after activating this plugin. These features are included in the plugin and you can easily activate and deactivate them as per your choice.

Creating and updating user profiles, BuddyPress allows users to create their own profiles and update it with the relevant information.
Sending friend requests. Users can also send friend requests as well as follow other users.
Sending Private messages. BuddyPress also gives features of messaging just like facebook. Users can send private messages to one another and can also choose to receive an email notification for the same.
Create And Join Groups. Admin can choose to let their users create and join groups of common interest.
Users can follow activity streams. BuddyPress activity streams provide a quick view of the recent activity going on within a site or with regard to a particular user.
Forum Discussions. BuddyPress is fully integrated with bbPress, thus allowing users to participate in forum topics and other discussions.

BuddyPress Components

BuddyPress Member Profile
BuddyPress Friend Connections
BuddyPress Private Messaging
Mentions
Activity Stream
Notification System
BuddyPress User Group

1. Extended Profile

BuddyPress Extended Profile

Your member will have a personalised profile page with custom profile fields. The profile tab will display data input given by a user. They can change it any time they want. For example, I would like my users to tell their birthday, email, about me etc. We can create different input fields and let user. BuddyPress now also include BuddyPress member type and Group type inbuilt with latest update.Using BuddyPress Newsfeed addon you can merge the diffrent activity steams into one for a member profile. One more popular BuddyPress addon is BuddyPress Status it allows to add text on profile header or emojis to show next to username.

Extended Features:

You can use addon for BuddyPress repeater field and create profile field groups and fields with repeater.

BuddyPress Profile Pro

Extended BuddyPress Profile:

You can also add more features to BuddyPress Extended Profile such as repeater fields and much more with the amazing BuddyPress Profile Pro Add-on. This plugin allows that you can easily add multiple field groups and display them at member’s profile. The Repeater groups can be like Education, Work history and lots more and the repeater fields like multiple phone number, multiple website URLs, skills sets with multiple values.

Also Read: Best BuddyPress Themes and Plugins To Create Intranet Website

2. Adding BuddyPress Friend Connections

A very essential aspect of a social networking website is making friends. This feature is also provided by this amazing plugin. Your members can easily send friend requests to other members. They can also follow other members. Checkout BuddyPress auto friends for adding common friends to all members best for community admin to welcome new member.

Extended Features:

Streams.

Add Privacy To Your Community: You can also lock BuddyPress components such as messages, friends, activity stream and other for your logged out users with the help of BuddyPress Private Community Pro add on for BuddyPress. Therefore, if you wish to create a completely private community, you can do so easily with the help of this addon.

Proven Solutions To Stop BuddyPress Spam

3. Sending BuddyPress Private Messaging

BuddyPress just like other social networking websites, also allows you to send and receive private messages to your friends. It gives you options such as compose, Sent, inbox and starred.

Extended Features:

Censoring Unwanted Content: You can also use BuddyPress Profanity plugin to censor content in your community! Easily Censor all the unwanted words in activities, private messages contents by specifying a list of keywords to be filtered.

4. Mentions

Do you like @ style of communication? It is possible with BuddyPress. Any user can mention your name on the wall and comments and you will be notified.

Extended Feature:

Adding Status Updates: You can also update status on your BuddyPress Activity and set moods on your profile with the help of BuddyPress Status Plugin.

This plugin allows your community members to update their status with what they are doing at that moment. It also allows them to set icons such as emojis to appear beside their username at the profile. Thus, your members can also express their moods on their status update.

5. Activity Stream

BuddyPress Activities allow you to post any activity on your Activity Streams. When any of your friends post any activity on their wall it appeared on your Activity Stream. You can also favorite or comment on the activities of your friends directly in the Activity Streams.

Extended Features

Customize Activity Streams: You can also create your own Activity Stream with the help of BuddyPress Activity Filter plugin for BuddyPress. This free plugin allows you to customize the working of BuddyPress Activity. This feature is usually done via coding but after this plugin, it has become much easier. BuddyPress Activity Filter allows site admin to change the default activity filter based on the type of activity.

Add Polling Feature: If you want to create a poll activity on your BuddyPress powered website or BuddyPress Demo site, you can also do so by creating polls inside the activities on your BuddyPress site with the simple yet effective BuddyPress Polls add-on, and enhance the way your users communicate and respond.

Bump BuddyPress Activities: You can also bring your BuddyPress activities on top with the help of BuddyPress Activity Bump add-on. This add on enables you to bump the ‘most active’ activities on top of your BuddyPress site. The activity will be highlighted as soon as anyone likes or comments on the activity

6. Notification System

BuddyPress notifications — Receiving WordPress BuddyPress Notifications

It is very important to be aware of what your friends are liking and commenting. BuddyPress also provides features of notifications for a social network website.

Each profile has a notification counter. The count increases some activities like a comment, mention, message, etc. triggers. You can view all the notifications at one place and mark them as read.

Also Read: How To Grow Your Social Community Website

7. Creating BuddyPress User Groups

Creating BuddyPress Groups — Creating BuddyPress User Groups

You can also create groups in your community website and allow your members to join the group they are interested in. Users can also share activities in the group and subscribe to different topics in the groups. If you want to learn how to create a group, you can check this tutorial on How to Create BuddyPress Groups – BuddyPress Tutorials

Extended Features:

Add Reviews To Groups: You can also allow your members to add reviews to various BuddyPress Groups with BuddyPress Group Reviews Plugin. It allows BuddyPress members to add group reviews & give multi-rating to given criteria(s). After the review post, all reviews displayed in the manage review section of the group.

The beauty of the BuddyPress lies in its modular design which you can see in the BuddyPress demo. These features are present in modules. You can activate and deactivate any features you want at any time.

You can use BuddyPress to create sites like:

A campus-wide social network for your university, school or college
An internal community for your company
Niche social networks for very specific interest groups
Focused communities for products & services
Integrated with bbPress to enhance community forums

Clean BuddyPress Theme

BuddyPress Development

Final Thoughts on BuddyPress

You can easily learn about all the features of this plugin and decide what feature you wish to include in your own community website. Therefore, we have created a BuddyPress demo website to help accelerate the exploring features of BuddyPress. Every type of messaging can be done over this platform. Your privacy will be kept at their priority.