• 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.

2. Adding BuddyPress Friend Connections

Adding BuddyPress Friend Connections

Extended Features:

BuddyPress Private Community pro

1. 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.

3. Sending BuddyPress Private Messaging

BuddyPress Private Messages

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:

BuddyPress profanity

1. 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

BuddyPress 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:

1. 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.

BuddyPress status

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 Activity Stream

Extended Features

BuddyPress Activity Filter

1. 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.

Adding BuddyPress Polls

2. Add Polling Feature: If you want to create a poll activity on your BuddyPress powered website, 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.

6. Notification System

Receiving WordPress BuddyPress Notifications

7. Creating BuddyPress User 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:

BuddyPress Group Reviews

1. 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 member to add group review & 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. 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

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 exploring features of BuddyPress.