BuddyPress Hashtags for BuddyPress and bbPress. It allows adding hashtag links to BuddyPress activity and bbPress topics. Hashtags turn into links that are used to search items based on topics.

BuddyPress Hashtags offers dedicated widgets for BuddyPress Activities and bbPress Forums, you can display them at desired sidebars. It will have the most used hashtags throughout the entire community. It also gives you sorting methods and limit to display a certain number of hashtags.

BuddyPress Hashtags gives the ability to use hashtags on any BuddyPress or bbpress posts. It comes with searchable hashtags either from widgets provided by the plugin or using BuddyPress search.

– one can use the hashtag in a BuddyPress activity and bbPress topics.
– Hashtag turns into a link and is used to search related activities.
– Admin can set minimum and maximum hashtag length.
– Dedicated widgets for BuddyPress activities and bbPress topics.

1. Download the zip file from My Account << Downloads section of your wbcomdesigns.com profile.
2. Upload the “BuddyPress Hashtag” plugin to the “/wp-content/plugins/” directory via FTP.
3. Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu.
4. Alternatively, you can use WordPress Plugin installer from Dashboard >> Plugins >> Add New to add this plugin.

How much does it cost?

• $19.00 – Personal License
• $49.00 – Developer License

Requirements

• WordPress 4.5 or newer
• BuddyPress 3.0.1 or newer

You can set the length of the hashtag by navigating through:

Dashboard >> WB Plugins >> Hashtags >> General

You will have two options here:

Minimum hashtag length  – Allows you to set minimum hashtag length. The default value is 3.

Maximum hashtag length –  Allows you to set the maximum length of the hashtag. The default value is 16.

Note: For setting length at widgets you have the option inside

Dashboard >> Appearance >> widgets >> BuddyPress Hashtag/bbPress Hashtag >> Limit.

For showing the most used community hashtag at the sidebar head towards:

Dashboard >> Appearance >> Widgets >> Buddpress/bbPress hashtag 

Drag these widgets at the desired sidebars it can right sidebar, left sidebar, activity index etc.

You will have the following options to set:

• Title – Allows you to set the title of the widget.

Backend view

Frontend view

• Limit – Allows you to the set limit of the hashtags (number of hashtags you want to show at the widget area.)

Backend view

Frontend view

• Sort – Allows you to sort the hashtags in ascending or descending order as per name or size.

• Display – Allows you to display the hashtag in cloud or list view within a sidebar.

Backend view

Cloud view frontend

List view frontend

1) BuddyPress Hashtag Shortcode [bpht_bp_hashtags]

Allows you to show BuddyPress shortcodes at the front end. You can select a specific number of hashtags in list or cloud view and also can sort it in ascending or descending order as per name or size.

i) attribute: displaystyle

Allows you to display the hashtag in cloud or list view.
type: string
required: no
default: cloud
accepts: cloud, list

ii) attribute: sortby

Allows you to sort the hashtags by name or size.
type: string
required: no
default: name
accepts: name, size

iii) attribute: sortorder

Allows you to sort the hashtags in ascending or descending order as per name or size.
type: string
required: no
default: asc
accepts: asc, desc

iv) attribute : limit

Allows you to the set limit of the hashtags (number of hashtags you want to show at the widget area.)
type: number
required: no
default: 12

2) bbPress Hashtag Shortcode [bpht_bbpress_hashtags]

Allows you to show bbPress shortcodes in the front end. You can select a specific number of hashtags in list or cloud view and can sort those in ascending or descending order as per name or size.

i) attribute: displaystyle

Allows you to display the hashtag in cloud or list view.
type: string
required: no
default: cloud
accepts: cloud, list

ii) attribute: sortby

Allows you to sort the hashtags by name or size.
type: string
required: no
default: name
accepts: name, size

iii) attribute: sortorder

Allows you to sort the hashtags in ascending or descending order as per name or size.
type: string
required: no
default: asc
accepts: asc, desc

iv) attribute: limit

Allows you to the set limit of the hashtags (number of hashtags you want to show at the widget area.)
type: number
required: no
default: 12

Education field group is added as repeater fieldset and you can add all your education history one by one.

You can easily change the order of the fields with simple drag and drop.

You can check your resume from your profile, you will have resume tab inside the BuddyPress menus and admin bar also.

1. Search in your theme directory that if there is a file present at the path BuddyPress/members/single/home.php file.
2. If the file is present in parent theme copy the home.php file content and place it inside the buddypress-private-community-pro/templates/members/single/home.php.
3. Once you copy theme’s file to the plugin’s file, add $blpro_prof_visib = apply_filters( ‘blpro_profile_visility_home_override’, $visib = true ); after do_action( ‘bp_before_member_body’ );.
4. Now, you are supposed to find and replace the following content.

Lock BuddyPress Components

1. Remove admin roles from members directory
2. Remove users from the member directory list
3. Display profile progress bar
4. User profile completeness percentage to get listed in the member directory
5. Enable profile visibility settings at the front end
6. Lock BuddyPress activities

1. Number of groups a member can create
2. Number of groups a member can join
3. Number of members per group

1. Create Polls at BuddyPress activity and groups.
2. A poll icon is added to the What’s new in Activity.
3. A poll icon is added to the What’s new in Groups.
4. Single Option Polls – users can pick just one answer.
5. Multiple Option Polls – users can pick more than one answer.
6. Responsive Designs, Fits well with all mobile devices.
7. Logged out users see the polls on activities, but can’t vote or see the poll results.
8. BuddyPress Polls widgets to display Single and multiple Poll results.

• Multi-Select Polls: Enable multi-select polls to allow users to cast more than one vote in each poll. If this option is disabled, users can only cast vote for only one option in each poll.
• Hide Results: If Hide Results option is enabled, results will be hidden from the users who have not voted yet. If disabled, the voting result will be visible to users who have not voted yet.
• Poll Closing Date & Time: If enabled, users can set poll closing date & time. If disabled, users can vote anytime, polls will always remain open for voting.

Plugins come with a widget to display poll results with graphs. It’s an independent plugin, extends BuddyPress Activity as Post update Polls, works perfectly for individual Activities and BuddyPress Groups.

BuddyPress polls options to set images as members

Display of single BuddyPress Poll at activity page posted by member with Image

1. You can add your own list of bad words.
2. Options to enable content filter for Activities, Activity comments & BuddyPress Private messages.
3. Options for admin to choose which type of word rendering he want to activate for the site.
4. You have the choice which type of filter character you want to use to hide bad words.
5. Site admin has choice to enable/disable case sensitive filter.
6. Options for Strict filters to filter characters within the words.

1. Download the zip file and extract it.
2. Upload “buddypress-profanity” directory to the “/wp-content/plugins/” directory.
3. Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu.
4. Alternatively, you can use WordPress Plugin installer from Dashboard > Plugins > Add New to add this plugin.

1. Go to Dashboard > BuddyPress Profanity > General.
2. Enter the keywords you wish to remove from the community under “Keywords to Remove” option
3. You also have the option to enable and disable filter of bad languages for the following: Status Updates, Activity Comments, and Messages.
4. Word Rendering option allows you to select the pattern in which the profanity will be displayed in the community’s posts or comments.
5. Filter Character option allows you to select the character which will replace the letters of keywords and will be displayed in community’s posts or comments.
6. The Case Matching setting provides two option Case Sensitive and Case Insensitive. Case Sensitive filters keywords with strict case matching and are not recommended while Case Insensitive setting capture more words while filtering. We recommend users to use Case Insensitive matching.
7. The Strict Filtering with strict mode does not filter embedded keywords. We recommend users to use Strict Filtering ON mode.

• Yes, It needs you to have BuddyPress installed and activated.

• Yes, multiple keywords can be set to filter with the setting [Keywords to remove] provided under the general tab.

• This can be achieved with the help of filters provided in the plugin. To replace keywords with a custom character for eg. @ write below code in your functions.php file of active theme or wherever you want.

• No, the plugin filters the content to display on the screen, BuddyPress database is unaffected by plugin changes.

• The [Case Matching] setting provides two option Case Sensitive and Case Insensitive. Case Sensitive filters keywords with strict case matching and are not recommended while Case Insensitive setting capture more words while filtering. We recommend users to use Case Insensitive matching.

• The [Strict Filtering] with strict mode on does not filter embedded keywords. We recommend users to use Strict Filtering ON mode.

• $11.00 – Personal License
• $51.00 – Developer License

• WordPress 4.5 or newer
• BuddyPress 2.7.x or newer

1. Download the zip file and extract it.
2. Upload “buddypress-moderation-pro” directory to the “/wp-content/plugins/” directory.
3. Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu.

The plugin provides following settings for flagging activity comment:

The plugin provides following settings for flagging activity update:

The plugin provides the following settings for flagging private messages:

The plugin provides the following settings for a flagging group:

The plugin provides the following settings for flagging members:

BuddyPress Profile Pro gives you the power to extend BuddyPress Profiles with repeater fields and groups. You can easily add multiple field groups and display them at member’s profile. These groups can be repeater groups like Education, Work history and lots more.

You can also have repeater fields like multiple phone number, multiple website URLs, skills sets with multiple values.

• Standard API customers need an API key set up in a project of your choice.
• Google Places API customers with a Premium Plan license need an API key set up in the Google Maps Premium Project (the project created for you when you ordered the Google Maps APIs Premium Plan). If you have not yet purchased access to the API, please contact sales.

Get an API key

If you are using the standard Google Places API Web Service

To get started using the Google Places API Web Service, click the button below, which guides you through the process of activating the Google Places API Web Service and getting an API key.

GET A KEY

Alternatively, follow these steps to get an API key:

1. Go to the Google API Console.
2. Create or select a project.
3. Click Continue to enable the API.
4. On the Credentials page, get an API key (and set the API key restrictions).
   Note: If you have an existing unrestricted API key or a key with server restrictions, you may use that key.
5. To prevent quota theft, secure your API key following these best practices.
6. (Optional) Enable billing. See Usage Limits and Billing for more information.

Do not use this key outside of your server code. For example, do not embed it in a web page or in a mobile application.

Education field group is added as repeater fieldset and you can add all your education history one by one.

Extended Fields tab is created under the Profile Menu section for saving fields data.

* sign adjacent to the field labels represents that the field is required.

1. Education
2. Professional Experience
3. Contact Details

Plugin’s Constants

Admin Actions

Available Filters

BuddyPress Quotes a more attractive way to express your feelings, Quotes, thoughts and many more.  Make your activity post appealing by adding background images or solid colors.  Admin can add multiple images and colors to choose from via backend settings.

BuddyPress quotes plugin comes with the feature to let users post their activity updates with interactive backgrounds selection such as colors and images set by the site administrator, so they can tell a more expressive story.

Posting an activity update using BuddyPress Quotes with beautiful backgrounds can help make that activity go viral.

The plugin comes up with backend settings using which site admin can upload multiple images for quotes selection, as well as admin can also set a different set of colors for background selection. Images and colors will be available for end-users in the BuddyPress Activity post form for selection while posting updates.

Features of BuddyPress Quote

• Make BuddyPress Activity Posts more attractive
• Helps in increasing engagement in Community
• Best for posting Quotes
• Easy backend settings for admin to add images and Color options

1. Download the zip file from My Account << Downloads section of your wbcomdesigns.com profile.
2. Upload the “BuddyPress Quotes” plugin to the “/wp-content/plugins/” directory via FTP.
3. Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu.
4. Alternatively, you can use WordPress Plugin installer from Dashboard >> Plugins >> Add New to add this plugin.

Admin can set background images to be used for quotes by navigating through:

Dashboard >> WB Plugins >> BP Quotes >> General >> Quotes Background Images

Make sure to use images of dimension 1024 x 512 px for a better experience. 

Admin can set background images to be used for quotes by heading towards:

Dashboard >> WB Plugins >> BP Quotes >> General >> Quotes Background Color

Posting an activity update using BuddyPress Quotes with beautiful backgrounds can help make that activity go viral.

BuddyPress Sticky Post plugin comes with the feature that lets site administrators prioritize certain activities over others.
As its name suggests, BuddyPress Sticky Post lets admin pin-up site-wide and groups activities to the top of BuddyPress activity list.
This will make it easier for the site administrator to make the pinned activity item recognized first by the community whenever they visit the site.
With BuddyPress Sticky Post, one will not have to worry about scrolling through the long list of activity and conversations to see the latest updates in the pinned activity items.

Features of BuddyPress Sticky Post is as follow:

• Admin can pin important post inside BuddyPress activity and groups.
• Admin can unpin the pinned activity at any time.
• The pinned activity will bump to the top.
• BuddyPress Sticky Post eliminates the chances of missing the important posts by users.

1. Download the zip file from My Account << Downloads section of your wbcomdesigns.com profile.
2. Upload the “BuddyPress Sticky Post” plugin to the “/wp-content/plugins/” directory via FTP.
3. Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu.
4. Alternatively, you can use WordPress Plugin installer from Dashboard >> Plugins >> Add New to add this plugin.

Admin can pin activity via navigating to the activity page/single group page. He will get the option of “Pin Post” beneath each post on the BuddyPress activity page and the activities of the group.

Admin can unpin activity via navigating to the activity page/single group page. He will get the option of “Unpin Post” beneath each post on the BuddyPress activity page and the activities of the group.

BuddyPress Auto Friends is a simple BuddyPress add-on which gives the site admin an option to select common friends for all the members.
These common friends get added as a friend automatically whenever any new member signs up to the online community. There is no limit to the number of friends that a site admin can add as common or global friends.

Features of the plugin are as follow:

• Admin can add users from the back end whom he wants to be an automatic friend of every user on the website.
• As soon as the member register and login to the site he will get notification displaying that “5 friends accepted your friendship requests”.

1. Download the zip file from My Account << Downloads section of your wbcomdesigns.com profile.
2. Upload the “BuddyPress Auto Friends” plugin to the “/wp-content/plugins/” directory via FTP.
3. Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu.
4. Alternatively, you can use WordPress Plugin installer from Dashboard >> Plugins >> Add New to add this plugin.

Admin can add a user to be a global/common friend of all newly registered members on the website by navigating through:

Dashboard >> WB Plugins >> Auto Friends >> General 

Note that adding a user to this list will automatically create friendship between that user and any newly registered user. It will not create friendships between this user and already existing ones.

Yes, BuddyPress auto friends allow adding multiple members as global friends. All selected global friends will be added as friends for all new signups.

Yes, users will receive auto friend notifications.

They can navigate through the notification to look at the list.

By default, BuddyPress offers separate type of activities for your BuddyPress Activity Stream. This makes all the activities happening in your community to be shown under different respective activity options. The BuddyPress Newsfeed plugin converts all separate activity streams and rebuilds it just like Facebook Newsfeed. This plugin shows all the activities whether it is members, groups, friends and favourites in one place and makes your Activity Stream free from extra activities.

• Combining and providing an aggregated page to the members where they can see all the activities of other members.
• You will get a choice to select which type of activity should be displayed in your newsfeed. Just checkmark the ones you need from the backend options.
• You can also segregate your activities from that of your friends by showing a separate tab called “Personal” for only your activities

To install the plugin follow the below steps:

• Download the zip file from My Account << Downloads section of your  wbcomdesigns.com profile.
• Upload the “BP NewsFeed” plugin to the “/wp-content/plugins/” directory via FTP.
• Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu.

Alternatively, you can use WordPress Plugin installer from Dashboard >> Plugins >> Add New to add this plugin.

BuddyPress News Feed has various options for an Admin to manage NewsFeed Functionality.

• Go to Dashboard > WB Plugins >BP NewsFeed

• General

• • Select Tab to merge into news feed: Admin gets to choose the activities to which he wants to see under the newsfeed tab. Just select the tabs and save the changes.

• • Which Tab should be the first one: Choose the tab in between them you want to display first.

• • Enable activity post form at newsfeed: Site Admin can allow whether he wants to display activity post form at the Newsfeed page.

• • Save Changes: Click on this button to save all the settings.

Allow your members to set a status on their BuddyPress Profile with BuddyPress Status add-on for BuddyPress.

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.

BuddyPress Status comes with an inbuilt set of icons and also gives users the feature to upload their custom emoji and icons from backend.

• Update what you feel at the moment
• Set a mood Icon.
• Set and customize the Icons from the backend to display for the BuddyPress members.

To install the plugin follow the below steps:

• Download the zip file from My Account << Downloads section of your  wbcomdesigns.com profile.
• Upload the “BP Status” plugin to the “/wp-content/plugins/” directory via FTP.
• Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu.

Alternatively, you can use WordPress Plugin installer from Dashboard >> Plugins >> Add New to add this plugin.

BuddyPress status has various options for an Admin to manage BP StatusFunctionality.

• Go to Dashboard > WB Plugins >BP Status

• Status Icon

• • Select Icon Set to be available: There is a checkbox provided for each icon set, Selected Icon set will appear at the user’s bp profile, besides the username.

• • Activity Reaction Icon: Selected Icon will be available to give a reaction to activity updates. Just drag and drop the icons from icon sets.

• General

• • Disable status Icon in activity Loop: This setting disables the status icon beside username in the activity loop.

• • Disable status icon at user profile page: This setting disables the status icon beside username in at user profile page(header section).
  • Disable reaction icon in bp activity actions: This setting disables the reaction icon in BuddyPress activity actions.

User can update his/her status from the profile page.

• Write your status in the text box and click on ADD button to save the status for future.You can store upto ten status, adding more than that will delete the oldest one.
• Click on Add and Set Current button, in order to instantly update the status.
• Set a status icon: Selected icon will appear beside username in member header.