You will find the corresponding option at:

Dashboard >> Appearance >> Customize >> Footer.

Here you will find the following options:

1) Select Footer

Footer Type: Allows you to select default theme footer or footer made using Elementor.
If you enable the option “Elementor Footer” then you will get the drop-down “Select Footer” listing Elementor footers so that you can select it from.

2) Settings

You will find following styling option inside it note that these are only applicable if you are using default theme footer.
Background Color – Allows you to change the background color of a footer.
Widget Title Color – Allows you to change the widget title color of a footer.
Text Color – Allows you to change the text colour of footer.
Link Color – Allows you to change the link color.
Link Hover Color – Allows you to change the link hover color.

3) Copyright

Here you will get the following options
Enable Footer Copyright – Allows you to enable or disable the option.
Copyright Text – Allows you to write the text you want to display.
Alignment – Allows you to align the text center, left or right.
Padding – Here you can set the top, right, bottom, left padding accordingly.
Background Color – Allows you to set the background colour of copyright section.
Text Color – Allows you to set the text colour of copyright text.
Link Color – Allows you to set the link colour if any in copyright text.
Link Hover Color – Allows you to set the link hover colour of copyright text.

Add new custom Footer:

Step 1: Navigate to Dashboard >> Reign Settings >> Footer >> Add New.

Step 2: Name your footer and click the publish button.

Step 3: Now pressing on Edit with Elementor button will redirect you to the page builder.

Step 5: Add your elements, You are done with your job by simple drag and drop of widgets. There are multiple options to select widgets from for example Brading, Social icons, Nav menu and many more.

Step 6: Save your design changes and it will be available inside customizer to set as a global footer for the website.

Step 7: Now set this footer as your website’s footer by navigating through
Dashboard >> Appearance >> Customize >> Footer >> Select Footer.

Step 8: Enable Elementor footer option and select your corresponding footer, you are all set with your new custom footer.

Step 1: Head towards Dashboard >> Pages >> Add new.
Step 2: Name the page and publish.
Step 3: Now edit the page using Elementor page builder.
Step 4: Design the page as per requirements and place the login/register widget at the desired location. You will find the widget inside wbcom elements sections.
As far as 404 page is a concern you can make the same using regular title and button widgets.
Step 5: Updated the page.
Step 6: Assign the page by navigating to:
Dashboard >> Customize >> General >> Page Mapping.
Now select the specific page at respective drop downs and you are done with your custom pages.

You will find the corresponding option inside
Dashboard >> Appearance >> customize >> General >> Custom Codes
Here, you will find the following options:
Tracking Code: You can enter your tracking codes here. This code will be enqueued in the site header. For example Google Tracking Code, Facebook Pixel Code, etc.
Custom JS: Header: Just want to do some quick JS changes? Enter them here, they will be applied to your theme.
Custom JS: Footer: Just want to do some quick JS changes? Enter them here, they will be applied to your theme.

Create member and group widget on any page by following steps:
Step 1: Navigate to Dashboard >> Pages >> Add New.
Step 2: Enter the title and edit the page via Elementor page builder.
Step 3: Drag and drop Reign members/ Reign Groups widget from the WordPress section.
Step 4: Update the page.
You are all done!

Reign BuddyPress Member Widget Layout

Reign BuddyPress Group Widget Layout

Much more than just connectivity. A fully featured community, with lots of options to dig from members, groups and activity.

Here I am talking about the most powerful WordPress plugin BuddyPress.
Following are the list of features BuddyPress includes, we will discuss in brief:
1) Profile – One can create and update his profile and as an admin, you can also extend profile by creating new xProfile fields and fields Group.
2) Friend Connections – One can send and receive friend requests.
3) Groups – One can create and join groups, can become an admin of the group and also send invites. BuddyPress also provides a dedicated page for group listing.
4) Activity – One can keep track of activities happening throughout the site. BuddyPress provides separate places for different activities they are as follow:
Sitewide activity stream.
Member activity stream.
Group activity stream.
5) Members – A separate member listing page. An easy way to find and send a request to known or favourites.
6) Messages – Public and private messaging features with inbox, compose, sent and starred messaging options.
7) Notifications – Helps you to keep an eye on important updates.
8) Dynamic member links – Member specific pages.
9) Emails – You can now easily edit the BuddyPress email content.
10) Forums – Fully integrated with a bbPress plugin to give an option of forum discussions.

You can install plugin in one of two ways:

Automated Installation
Step 1: Navigate to Dashboard >> Plugin >> Add New
Step 2: Search for BuddyPress
Step 3: Install and Activate the plugin.

Manual Installation
Step 1: Download BuddyPress from here.
Step 2: Via FTP upload the plugin inside the wp-content/plugins folder.
Step 3: Navigate to Dashboard >> plugin >> installed Plugins. Activate plugin.

There are two types of pages BuddyPress serves, directory pages and member-specific pages.
You can add both to the navigation menus.
Follow below steps to proceed further:

Add directory pages to the menu.
Step 1: Navigate to Appearance >> Menus.
Step 2: Create a new menu.
Step 3: Select the BuddyPress pages from page section.
Step 4: Select the location for the menus from menu settings options.
Step 5: Save the menu.

Add logged-in member specific links to the menu.
Either create a new menu or add these to the menu you already created above.
Step 1: Click on screen option at the top.
Step 2: Select the BuddyPress option.
Step 3: Select the items you want to add to the menu from the BuddyPress section.
Step 4: Click on “Add to menu” button.
Step 5: If you have created a new menu then select display location from Menu settings section.
Step 6: Save Menu.

For configuring BuddyPress navigate through
Dashboard >> Settings >> BuddyPress.

You will find three options here, they are as follow:

1. Components – Allows you to enable/disable components you want to include.
2. Options – Includes different setting options related to BuddyPress such as profile, group and activity settings.
3. Pages – Allows you to map BuddyPress pages accordingly.

Let’s discuss these three options in details.

Components
You will find the following options inside it:

• Extended Profiles – Allows you to Configure and customize your community with fully editable profile fields.
• Account Settings – Allow your users to modify their account as per their choice.
• Friend Connections – Allow your members to create friends and expand their circle.
• Private Messaging – Allow your members to share private messages.
• Activity Streams – Global, personal, and group activity streams with threaded commenting, direct posting, favouriting, and @mentions, all with a full RSS feed and email notification support.
• Notifications – Allows your member to receive notification of the activities related to them happening throughout the site depending on the customization of their notification settings.
• User Groups – Allows your users to organize themselves into specific public, private or hidden sections with separate activity streams and member listings in your community.
• Site Tracking – Track and record activity for new posts and comments from your site.
• BuddyPress Core – This is a must-use option and you can not deselect it. It‘s what makes BuddyPress possible.
• Community Members – This one is also a must-use option and you can’t deselect it, everything in a BuddyPress community revolves around its members.

Options
You will find four setting options inside it, here will discuss each one by one briefly:

Main Settings

• Toolbar – Allows showing the Toolbar for logged out users.
• Account Deletion – Selecting this option allows registered members to delete their own accounts.
• Template Pack – Allows you to select BuddyPress template pack.
  Profile Settings

Profile Settings

• Profile Photo Uploads – Selecting this option allows members to upload avatars.
• Cover Image Uploads – Selecting this option allows registered members to upload cover images for their profile.
• Profile Syncing – Enable syncing of BuddyPress to WordPress profile.
  Groups Settings.

Group Settings

• Group Creation – Selecting this option allows group creation for all users.
  Admin can always create groups, no matter what the setting is.
• Group Photo Uploads – Allows setting customizable avatars for groups.
• Group Cover Image Uploads – Allows setting customizable cover images for groups.
  Activity Settings.

Activity Settings

• Post Comments – Allows activity stream commenting on posts and comments.
• Activity auto-refresh – It automatically checks for new items while viewing the activity stream.

Pages
As all is done let’s proceed towards creating and mapping pages.

Create two pages register and activate by navigating through
Dashboard >> Pages >> Add New >> Register/Activate.
You will notice BuddyPress already made two pages activity and members.
You now just have to map these page here in BuddyPress settings.

• Members: Select members page for member listing.
• Activity Streams: Select the activity page for site-wide activity.
• User Groups: Select groups for group listing.
• Register: Select registration page and allow your members to register to the site.
• Activate: Select activation page.

Now save the settings by clicking the save button.

BuddyPress can handle millions of users. It will add rows to the database without problem, and that database can scale to a very large size.

However, there are things that might have an impact on that. Your hardware will play a big role.

Following are the minimum server requirements for the BuddyPress:

• PHP version 7.0 or greater.
• MySQL version 5.6 or greater.
• BuddyPress 3.0 supports WordPress 4.5 or greater.

BP avatar uploads will fail without one of these modules activated (WP will simply fail to create image sizes for posts but won’t show an error), so make sure that PHP must have the Imagick or GD modules installed (on the server) to allow re-sizing of images.

For release versions and WordPress version compatibility, give a closer look at the respective links.

A user can edit their profile by navigating through:
Profile >> Edit
You only have to fill this page based on how many profile field group were set by Admin. For the profile section, you can also change your profile photo and cover image.

Register members can delete their account by navigating through:
Profile >> Settings >> Delete Account.
Make sure you will only get this option if site admin has enabled it.
Account deletion will also delete all the content created by you in the site. Those will be irrecoverable.

Invite Anyone is an ultimate plugin to increase members easily and quickly on your site.
It allows every member to invite their friends by adding send invite tab on user’s profile page.

How to start:
Step 1: Install and activate the plugin by navigating through
Dashboard >> Plugin >> Add New.
Step 2: Manage settings by heading towards:
Dashboard >> Settings >> Invite Anyone.
Step 3: Send invite tab will appear on a user’s profile and single group page when a plugin is activated, allowing users to enter email or selecting from the list respectively to invite their friends.

BuddyPress allows you to send Public as well as private messages.
For sending a private message head towards your profile >> messages >> Compose.
Here, select a user name in autocomplete “send to” field, type your message and then click on send message button. All done.

For public messages, you can send the same by mentioning the member with “@” sign then your message anywhere within BuddyPress site it can be sitewide activity, group activity or your own profile page. The user will be notified by notification count and via email as well if enabled.

Following is the shortcode for activity listing you can use this in your post and pages:

[activity-listing]

Here is the way you can specify options

[activity-listing option_name=option_val option_name2=option_val2 and so on]

For Example: [activity-listing title=Chris_Group object=Groups per_page=1].

The accepted parameters:-

• title (string):- What should be the title of the activities section

Example: [activity-listing title=My_Activity-Listing per_page=2].

• display_comments (sting|bool):- How to handle activity comments.
• Possible values: – ‘threaded’ – comments appear in a threaded tree, under their parent items.
  – ‘stream’ – the activity stream is presented in a flat manner, with comments sorted in chronological order alongside other activity items.
  – false – don’t fetch activity comments at all.
  Default: ‘threaded’.
• include (string):- Activity IDs or string of activity IDs comma-separated to query. Providing an ‘include’ activity IDs will override all other filters passed in the argument. When viewing the permalink page for a single activity item, this value defaults to the ID of that item. Otherwise, the default is false.
• in (string):- Activity IDs or string of activity IDs comma-separated to limit the query by (IN). ‘in’ is intended to be used in conjunction with other filter parameters. Default: false.
• exclude (string):- Activity IDs or string of activity IDs comma-separated to exclude. Default: false.
• sort (string):- ‘ASC’ or ‘DESC’. Default: ‘DESC’.

Example: [activity-listing title=Chris_Group object=Groups sort=ASC].

• per_page (int):- Number of results per page. Default: 20.

Example: [activity-listing per_page=4]

• page_args (int):- String used as a query parameter in pagination links. Default: ‘page’.
• max (int):- Limit the maximum no. of activities to be included in the list.

Example: [activity-listing title=Max_Activity-Listing max=1].

• scope (string):- Use a BuddyPress pre-built filter.
  – ‘just-me’ retrieves items belonging only to a user; this is equivalent to passing a ‘user_id’ argument.
  – ‘friends’ retrieves items belonging to the friends of a user.
  – ‘groups’ retrieves items belonging to groups to which a user belongs to.
  – ‘favorites’ retrieves a user’s favorited activity items.
  – ‘mentions’ retrieves items where a user has received an @-mention.
  The default value of ‘scope’ is set to one of the above if that value appears in the appropriate place in the URL; eg, ‘scope’ will be ‘groups’
  when visiting http://example.com/members/joe/activity/groups/.
  Otherwise defaults to false.
• user_id (int):- If you want to list a particular user’s activity
• object (string):- object to filter on e.g. groups, profile, status, friends(what type of activity is this)
• action (string):- action to filter on e.g. activity_update, new_forum_post, profile_updated(why this activity was created)
• primary_id (int):- object ID to filter on e.g. a group_id or forum_id or blog_id etc. We will see the use in a minute.

Example: [activity-listing object=groups primary_id=2].

• secondary_id (int):- secondary object ID to filter on e.g. a post_id(I don’t think you are going to use it)
• search_terms (String):- In case you want to list the results of activity search
• allow_posting (int):- If you want to allow users to post. It will include the default activity posting form. It is experimental and may have issues on some of the themes.
• hide_on_activity (int):- Default 1. Hide/show the shortcode content on activity pages(If you are using it in the sidebar and want it to be visible on user/group/site activity page, set it to 0)
• container_class (string):- Default ‘activity’ . Allows changing the class of the shortcode contents wrapper. If you have the hide_on_activity=0, then please set it to some other value than ‘activity'(Maybe ‘activities’ or something else). If you do not change it, On the user/group/site activity page, the activity filter will affect the content of the shortcodes. It is suggested to change it if hide_on_activity=0 is set.

This shortcode can take the following parameters:

Examples:-

[activity-listing per_page=2]

This [activity-listing per_page=2] shortcode shows a list of Activity, and it accompanies a great deal of parameters to customize which activity is appeared and how they are spread out.

[activity-listing user_id=1]

You can use this shortcode to shows the content of the user activity list. The shortcode can be used on any page or widget area.

[activity-listing search_terms=’Arts and Science.’]

This shortcode uses to show list activities containing the search word “Arts and Science.”

[activity-listing object=groups]

This [activity-listing object=groups] shortcode uses to shows the List of all activities of the group.

[activity-listing object=groups primary_id=2]

You can make your BuddyPress website only visible to your registered members by installing a simple plugin called “BuddyPress Members Only”. This plugin will restrict guest users to view a specified page.

If the guest user tries to view any other page, then he/she will be redirected to Register Page.

Get this plugin

Yes, there is a possible way of integration of BuddyPress and bbpress because along with the options of the profile, activity, member and group bbpress provides a Forum, Topics and Replies option.

when you install both BuddyPress and bbpress together there will be no such effect over the site. But there is a new Post Type is added on the Dashboard Named Forum, Topics and Replies.

Here are the options after activating bbpress

Here are the options for BuddyPress

Yes, the Ultimate Membership Pro works and compatible with BuddyPress.

You can get more information from their official website, here.

Get the plugin

Yes. Buddypress is very much compatible with any type of WordPress enabled Multisite.

But before starting, you would have to configure the following:

1. wp-admin > Network Admin > Settings > Components
2. wp-admin > Network Admin > Settings > Pages
3. wp-admin > Network Admin > Settings > Options

For Configuring these options, you can get help from BuddyPress Official website, here.

Yes absolutely, BuddyPress and bbPress are both compatible with each other and work very fluently at the same time.

You can access your created forums from your profile and vice-versa.

Yes, Avada is a fabulous Responsive Multipurpose theme. Avada is compatible with BuddyPress, bbPress, Easy Digital Downloads, WooCommerce and many more.

Get Avada Theme

No, bbPress and BuddyPress are very compatible with each other. If a user is signed up for the BuddyPress community, then he/she will automatically be signed up for bbPress forums.

Get BuddyPress

Get bbPress

You can manage the redirects after login with ‘login_redirect‘ hook which WordPress provides. You need to paste the following code in your functions.php file located in your theme folder.

function redirect_to_new_url() {
return '/your-new-redirect-url';
}

add_filter('login_redirect', 'redirect_to_new_url');

No, but you can integrate badges to be shown by a plugin named “BadgeOS Community AddOn”. Registered members will have to complete certain tasks to achieve badges/points/ranks.

Get this plugin

You would have to add Pages to the Menu displayed at the front-end. To do so, follow the given steps:

• Navigate to wp-admin > Appearance > Menus

• Now click on View All tab from the Pages widget and select BuddyPress pages such as Activity, Groups, Members, etc. Then click Add to Menu.

From here you can also add Pages to the front-end Menu from other plugins such as WooCommerce’s Shop, Cart and Checkout Pages.

After adding to Menu, BuddyPress pages should be accessible from the front-end.

To make your registration Page your main page, you need to follow some simple settings on your WordPress DashBoard.

Go to WordPress Dashboard  >> Select Setting option >> Click on the General settings and check the box “Anyone can register” and provide the role to the new user.

After saving the above settings just go to the Reading option of the Settings

Make sure your bullet is on the “static page” and now select the Register page as your Home Page from the DropDown. Just save the settings.

Open your site after logging out and reload the page.

You can now see the Register Page as your front page.

Yes, absolutely, WPForo is a forum plugin and can be implemented on the BuddyPress website. Because BuddyPress is a community plugin and these two are not related and should have no conflicts.

Get WPForo

Get BuddyPress

Yes, Because BuddyPress and Woocommerce both are plugins and both works separately.

1. These are the post types of WooCommerce.
2. These are the post types of BuddyPress.

No, BuddyPress and Phpfox are different from each other. Phpfox is a social networking software from which you can make social networking sites. And it is not related to WordPress.

On the other hand, BuddyPress is a WordPress plugin that lets you create a community website.

Unfortunately, there is no way around to link these two for now.

Yes, Socially Viral works very well with BuddyPress.

Yes. BuddyPress is a widely used community plugin for WordPress. Their developers are still working hard to keep updating and releasing security updates.

You can get more information on every release of BuddyPress here.

BuddyPress is a community plugin and it allows your registered members to send friendship requests, post activity updates, post comments, create groups etc.

You can get more information here.

To connect BuddyPress Extended Profile,

• First, make sure you have enabled and saved the Extended Profile option in Admin Dashboard > Settings > BuddyPress.

• Now head over to Users > Profile Fields. Here you can add New Fields or Group of New Fields to show on the Profile.

• Almost done, now go to your Profile Edit screen from the front-end to fill the information.

For setting the users on the BuddyPress, go to the user >> Select all users option >> then see their user name and their password >> Now login each member one by one on a separate login page.

OR

Download a plugin called USER SWITCH that will let you log in with different user every time.

In BuddyPress, you can set up users to a group directly.

Any user can post links to BuddyPress Activity without any problem. You can see an example below:

Yes, BuddyPress is compatible with Elementor Builder and Elementor build themes.

Download BuddyPress

Download Elementor

Yes, BuddyPress is a plugin for WordPress. So, it is mandatory to have WordPress Installed.

No, BuddyPress is a community plugin and doesn’t include any forums in it. You can use forum plugins to integrate forums on your BuddyPress website. Such as bbPress :

Other popular forum plugins are:

• wpForo Forum
• Asgaros Forum
• Forum Engine

No, you don’t need to have a Multisite website to use BuddyPress. BuddyPress can easily be installed and can be used in any kind of WordPress enabled website.

Yes. You just need to add a page to your menu which will list all the members in it. Follow the given instructions below:

• Go to your Admin Dashboard > Appearance > Menus

• Now go to View All section in Pages Widget. And check Members option and Click Add to Menu and then Save Menu.

• There should be a Members tab in your menu. You can see the list of all members through it.

There are widgets that are available that will help you with this problem.

Go to the DashBoard >> Select appearance>> Click on Widgets >> there you will find Buddypress Login widget and not select which page you want to see the login

Give a title to the widget and you are done. Just save it and reload the member page and go to a user page. There you will find the login option.

You can now go to your members site, there you can see a logout option on the site.

Another Way is:

In widgets drag the (BuddyPress) Login Widget to the Footer 1 Widget and save the title name.

Here is the output demo that you will see on every page until you login to the account.

No, BuddyPress is a community plugin and it doesn’t need any chat functionality enabled. It works without any Live Chat plugin.

But if you need your members to live chat on your website then only you need a live chat plugin along with BuddyPress.

No, BuddyPress is a plugin for WordPress itself. It would not work without WordPress Installation. After Installing WordPress, you would have to install the BuddyPress plugin.

Yes, certainly. BuddyPress itself is a community plugin and can easily be implemented on any WordPress website.

Yes. Upstream released an update (ver 1.8) which has in-build BuddyPress integration. UpStream now automatically uses BuddyPress avatars, if you have BuddyPress installed in your WordPress.

Get more information on Upstream 1.8 Updates

There are multiple themes, both premium and free, which are compatible with BuddyPress and looks beautiful. Themes such as:

1. BuddyX 
2. Reign BuddyPress Theme
3. Boss
4. KLEO
5. BeSocial

There are many other themes in the market, but these we like the most.

Sales features are not inbuilt with BuddyPress, but we can allow users to sell items with BuddyPress using WooCommerce and we can display there listing items at their product and can also sync their new items listing with BuddyPress activities. We have offered a similar solution for BuddyPress, you can take a peek here Storemate https://wbcomdesigns.com/downloads/storemate-dokan/

Yes, users can post text posts through their profiles logged in.

Login with your account >> click on your name >> select activity option >> write a post >> click on Update post.

Yes, Users can very easily publish contents and updates on BuddyPress enabled websites.

Any Logged in User should see a “What’s new” section on the website. Here you can post updates.

There are also various plugins which provide addons for content such as media files, polls, status etc to publish on BuddyPress community.

No, BuddyForms doesn’t require BuddyPress to be Installed. But BuddyForms provides you to add elegant and responsive forms in plugins such as WooCommerce,  BuddyPress, etc.

Get BuddyForms

Yes, Restrict Content Pro provides an Integration plugin to connect with BuddyPress.

You can find more 3rd-Party Integrations for Restrict Content Pro here.

Get this Integration Plugin

It depends on your need. If you want to integrate forums into your website then you would have to install bbPress.

Both are different plugins and you can install them independently.

Admins cannot see BuddyPress private messages By Default. But private messages can be revealed with the help of a plugin called “BP Messages Tool“. That’s by design. This plugin is helpful for admin in case of harassment reports and accusation cases.

In order to use this plugin. Install and Activate it.

Then Navigate to Tools > BP Messages

Yes, you certainly can.

There are many ways you can achieve this. Simple and Straightforward ways are:

1. Go to your BuddyPress plugin directory and make HTML changes by searching a class name.
2. You can add/modify PHP codes through hooks and filters provided by WordPress.
3. You can also change PHP codes through hard-coding in the core BuddyPress files.

Get more information about Hooks/Filters here.

For styling BuddyPress Pages just go the WordPress Dashboard and select Appearance >> Customize option

Now, for the BuddyPress Styling Look down some options of BuddyPress Nouveau and Additional CSS.

No, any BuddyPress User can not post photos on their profile.

They can just post updates in the form of text and symbols. Other than this they can change their profile image.

For photos and any other media format, there is another plugin addon available like a buddyboss media plugin.

Yes, Admins have the capability to add or remove Users in BuddyPress Groups. To add a particular user/users follow the given steps:

Go to Admin Dashboard > Groups

Here admin has to choose the group name in which he wants to add members. Open the desired group.

Now just search for the member by username in the Add New Members section and Save Changes.

Yes, BuddyPress is mandatory for Youzer to run. Otherwise, you will get the following error.

Yes, absolutely. Hueman Theme is the best-rated theme of all time on WordPress.org for Blogs and Magazines. It’s fully compatible with BuddyPress.

No, BuddyPress doesn’t support hashtags by default. But we offer a simple and easy plugin that integrates Hashtag support for BuddyPress. This plugin also supports multiple language hashtags.

Get this plugin

For adding any custom tab to the BuddyPress you need only to use simple addons for the BuddyPress which you can install from the WordPress site.

Some Addons are:

BuddyPress Member Reviews

BuddyPress Activity Filter

BuddyPress Activity Social Share

Yes, both are different plugins and works differently. They are very much compatible with each other and will have no conflicts. You can use them at the same time without any doubt.

No, BuddyPress Users can not post photos on their profile By Default.

BuddyPress doesn’t have this compatibility by design. Users can just post updates in the form of text and special characters. Other than this, they can only change their profile images by going to the Edit Profile option.

For photos and any other media format, there is another plugin addon available like a Buddyboss Media Plugin.

No, unfortunately, BuddyPress doesn’t have any premium user feature until now. You would have to use a membership plugin for that.

Some popular membership plugins compatible with BuddyPress are:

• Paid Memberships Pro
• Restrict Content Pro
• Memberium

Yes, you can use NEXTGEN with BuddyPress.

By default, all the links are posted inside activities, group activities, Group description are do follow links, that’s the main reason lots of spammers try to register BuddyPress communities to gain a backlink.

Yes, Accesspress’ Parallax is a widely popular free WordPress theme. It is elegant with a beautiful design that supports rich blog layout and compatible with BuddyPress.

Get this theme

Yes, you can have a separate theme for Buddypress, just make sure that the theme is compatible with BuddyPress/WordPress.

We provide some full-fledged BuddyPress optimized WordPress themes. You can check them out here.

BuddyPress pages are BuddyPress template driven, most of the themes are compatible with BuddyPress by default same goes for Divi theme. All the BuddyPress pages like Member directory, Group directory, single-member, or group page will show up as default BuddyPress template as Divi does not override these templates. You will need to customize these pages to match your site style.

If you are starting a new website and social community feature is the most important one, I would recommend go with a BuddyPress Compatible Theme to save time and cost. Here is a free BuddyPress Theme you can see he BuddyPress templates are modified.

For upstream plugin, it needs to be tested for any possible conflict, ideally, it should work together.

Now, Here you will see on scrolling down there are options to style your group pages in BuddyPress Nouveau or if you  have little bit knowledge of CSS then put Additional CSS

Yes, BuddyPress and bbpress are the plugins that are easily integrated with any theme thus it will be working fine with the theme by Divi. You only have to set the pages in the menu and manage the permalink from the setting.

To set menus :

To set permalinks:

To set direct menus from BuddyPress settings:

To remove the Wp-admin bar you just need to disable some of the settings of the in your profile.

Go to the WordPress Dashboard>> Select Users >> Click on Your Profile >> checkout “Show ToolBar when Viewing site”

After Checking out and saving you will see no admin pannel down there

To get back to the admin panel just paste /wp-admin/ in URL and you will be redirected to the Dashboard.

Example: https://example.com/wp-admin/

Yes, anyone can log in to a BuddyPress site if he/she is a registered member of that website by going to your-website-name/wp-admin

For Registering process, it entirely depends on the admin if he enabled the “Anyone can register” option from the Admin Dashboard.

If this option is checked, then users should see the Login/Register button or link on the website.

You can change the default avatar size with some codes in BuddyPress. There are two methods to put the code in:

1. Either in function.php file located in your core Themes folder.
2. Or you would have to create a bp-custom.php file in your wp-content/plugins/ directory.

Now after you know where to paste the code, the following code will be used to change the default avatar size:

if ( ! defined( 'BP_AVATAR_THUMB_WIDTH' ) )
define( 'BP_AVATAR_THUMB_WIDTH', 50 ); //change this with your desired thumb width

if ( ! defined( 'BP_AVATAR_THUMB_HEIGHT' ) )
define( 'BP_AVATAR_THUMB_HEIGHT', 50 ); //change this with your desired thumb height

if ( ! defined( 'BP_AVATAR_FULL_WIDTH' ) )
define( 'BP_AVATAR_FULL_WIDTH', 260 ); //change this with your desired full size

if ( ! defined( 'BP_AVATAR_FULL_HEIGHT' ) )
define( 'BP_AVATAR_FULL_HEIGHT', 260 ); //change this to default height for full avatar

Now try to upload an avatar the changes will be observable.

Yes, there is a very simple way to delete the profile from the front end or change the settings of their profile.

But before the delete option is visible there is a small checkbox to check-in BuddyPress Settings

Just follow the simple steps on the online site:

open the profile page by clicking on your name >> setting>>Delete the account.

( This is for the customers who are logged in. )

BuddyPress comes with only limited Profile fields for users to enter their information. But with BuddyPress Xprofiles, you can add additional or custom fields in the user’s registration form or Profile Edit screen.

Xprofiles offers the following fields:

1. Date Of Birth
2. Terms/Acceptance
3. File
4. Image
5. Email
6. Web
7. Post Types Selector
8. Terms Selector
9. Decimal
10. Date Picker
11. Slider
12. Color
13. And Many More

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Yes, Avada is compatible with BuddyPress and many other popular plugins such as WPML, Yoast, Contact Form 7, WooCommerce and much more.

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Yes. BuddyPress and bbPress are fully compatible with each other. It just depends on your need that if you want to integrate a forum into your community website or not.

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To create a group in BuddyPress just follow some settings.

go to setting on dashboard >> select BuddyPress >> check both (Freind Connections and User groups ) and save the settings.

Another way is from the front end of the website. But before that make sure the Group is added to the menu

Now, see on the front of the website and you will find a menu of the Groups there where you can create new groups on a single click

If you are the admin of a group or your group is a public group then you can simply send invites to the members.

But if you want to invite users from the admin panel then follow some steps:

go to WordPress dashboard >> select groups >> then choose group name you want to add members in >> now go down to Add New Members

Simply search the name of the new member and add it to the group.

BuddyPress user profile has options for a different type of field values, text area offers WYSIWYG editor.

By default, the user can not publish any articles. if you are willing to publish there are a couple of plugins like social article plugin.

Yes, without a doubt. Divi Builder is one of the most popular theme builders these days. These page builders are supported by many popular plugins such as BuddyPress and bbPress.

You can check some of the websites built with Divi theme, here.

It’s not possible, BuddyPress provides you with a variety of options to choose in its settings. From Template Pack to Profile Settings and Group Settings.

1. Make sure you have BuddyPress Installed and Activated from Installed Plugins option.

2. Now Navigate to Settings > BuddyPress > Options tab.

Here you can find settings of BuddyPress Plugin.

WPForo and BuddyPress are totally different plugins. There is no comparison between these two.

WPforo is a forum plugin and for forum WordPress has a plugin bbPress. For forum you can choose either WPforo or bbPress based on your choice.

Well, Yes you can absolutely use WPforo instead of BuddyPress. Both have different functionalities and can be used standalone.

BuddyPress pages are template driven, elementor or any other page builder will not be a help for default BuddyPress pages.

No, BuddyPress doesn’t have the functionality of verified user account by default.

But you can use a free plugin called “Verified Member for BuddyPress”

1. Go to your Admin Dashboard and Install and Activate this plugin.

2. Now go to All Users and hover over any user you want to be verified. Select “Extended” here.

3. Here you should see an option as “Verified Members”

4. After checking this option, you should see the verified marks on profiles on your website.

Yes, you can view all the members of your group in BuddyPress.

Navigate to Your Profile > Groups

Here Choose the group from which you want to view the members and then Go to Members Tab

BuddyPress one of the most popular community plugin with regular updates and 2 lakh plus installations already indicates about positive performance.

But the question arises how to know if the plugin is good in terms of performance, so here we will discuss in brief  to follow some steps for the same:

Check plugin performance – You can use the P3 plugin for checking the plugin performance, however, it is not updated from a long time so you can also use website performance tools that tell a lot about every component and about a problematic plugin too. You can use GTmetrix or Google page speed test tools.

Follow all WP standards – Next important aspect to test if the plugin is good is that it should follow all WP standards and there should not be any errors or warnings.

Good in terms of security – code sanitization and all
CSS and JS minification

People can easily see who has liked pictures in their BuddyPress community. One of the most popular plugin which allows user to add media inside the BuddyPress community is rtMedia having extension rtMedia Likes which allow users to like media and also provide with the functionality to see who has liked your pictures.

It is extremely easy to use.

• Install and activate rtMedia
• Install and activate rtMedia Likes
• Visit site’s front end
• Click on the image/media
• Click on the “people like this” link
• It will open the pop-up which shows the list of users like that particular media.

The plugin will also allow you to see or list all the media one have liked. For this follow below steps:

• Navigate to Dashboard >> rtMedia >> Settings >> Other Settings
• Enable the “user’s liked page” option.

• Navigate to the front end profile
• Click on Likes tab

Yes, there is a plugin that lets your BuddyPress users add their location. Also, allows user to search another user’s location. The plugin is GEO my WordPress.

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BuddyPress and WordPress store profile information in 2 separate locations, and there’s a process to sync profile data between the 2 tables. However, this is pretty much limited (from how I’m reading the code) to a single named field.

What’s the best way of adding other profile fields to this sync process (I’m particularly thinking of the description and various contact fields) – looks like I’ll need to create a function to hook into xprofile_updated_profile and user_profile_update_errors – is this right?

Most of the time people ask “Is there an elegant way of establishing the mapping between WP user meta and BP xprofile_data, or do I have to create the records representing profile fields in xprofile_fields manually?”

You can take a look of

BuddyPress to WordPress Full Sync

Follow BuddyPress users on your site just like Twitter with the help of BuddyPress Follow plugin. You will get a follow/following tab on member’s profile and on the member directory page.

For bug reports or to add patches or translation files, visit the BP Follow Github page.

Guide

• Using custom templates – How to override the template bundled with the plugin for use in your WP theme.
• Custom slugs – Change the default slugs used in BP Follow to better suit your community.
• Filter switches – Enable / disable certain functionality with these code snippets
• Translation – Find out how to override the default text and labels by adding a custom translation file.
• Tutorial – Add a follow button on a regular WP page
• Tutorial – Create your own follow activity loop
• Tutorial – Get the following or followers count for a user

Addons

• BP Private Messages For Followers Only – Allow members to send private messages only if the recipient is following them.
• BP Working Papers – A plugin that creates a relationship between BuddyPress Groups and WordPress Sites for the purpose of peer reviewing Working Papers. Includes support for following working paper sites using the BP Follow Blogs module.

Community-submitted scripts and guides

• myCRED BP Follow integration – Code snippet to integrate BP Follow with the myCRED plugin. When a user is followed, this adds points to both parties.
• Email notification for new posts sent to people following the post author – by @colabsadmin
• Script – Convert friends over to followers – by @jwenerd

All BuddyPress pages are template driven pages like Activity, Members, Groups, Register.

Single-member profile, single group, or single activity use above base slug to display them. If you have to modify any look and feel, you can follow https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/template-hierarchy/

https://gist.github.com/r-a-y/5736878 you can use this plugin for component-specific debugging.

By default every page those are visible for the logged out users will be indexed including member’s profile. You can use BuddyPress Lock plugin to make your website private and as per choice hide some or all BuddyPress pages for logged out users for more features you can also check the paid plugin BuddyPress Private Community Pro that will limit your BuddyPress community features for logged out users and in this way stop them from indexing on google.

BuddyPress by default does not provide any such feature. It will require custom coding to add this feature to our site. However, thankfully BuddyPress is a large community and one can easily get an add-on plugin for most of his requirements. For this, you can easily check who viewed your BuddyPress profile with the help of BuddyPress Recent Profile Visitor Plugin.

Profile data is stored in the following tables:

wp_bp_xprofile_groups – The profile groups

wp_bp_xprofile_fields – The fields, what type they are, the name etc.

wp_bp_xprofile_data – The data for each user for specific fields

Avatars are stored in:

wp_usermeta – with the meta_keys:

‘bp_core_avatar_v1’ – the URL to the avatar thumbnail

‘bp_core_avatar_v1_path’ – the filesystem path to the thumbnail

‘bp_core_avatar_v2’ – same as v1 but the full size image

‘bp_core_avatar_v2_path’ – same as v1 but the full size image

Yes, this is the default  feature of BuddyPress. On the profile page, you can select my friend’s tab to show a friend’s activities.

BuddyPress registration page is template driven.

For users to sign up to your new BuddyPress powered site you will need to enable registration.  Visit  Settings > General in the WordPress admin and make sure you have “anyone can register” checked.

by default, it uses all the Xprofile fields for registration. To add or remove any fields from the BuddyPress registration page you will have to add /remove from the primary field group of Xprofile.

for more details check: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/guides/modifying-the-registration-form/ 

By default BuddyPress allows you to add profile fields you need to navigate through
Dashboard >> Users >> Profile Fields 

Here, you will have an option to add a new field or new field group.

If you want to add the extended field you can use BuddyPress Profile Pro plugin.

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Fortunately, we have developed a FREE plugin for BuddyPress to limit the members listing as per our need. When you limit the members the pagination will automatically be added to it.

The plugin is called “Shortcodes for BuddyPress”. There are other features that these plugins offer such as, show activities, groups list, and notifications and filter them too.

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Just paste the shortcode on the page wherever you want to fetch the filtered information.

Example: [members-listing search_terms=’zoya’]

For free BuddyPress theme, you can check BuddyX. It is a BuddyPress dedicated theme.

You can build Online Social Community, Intranet or Extranet Website Using Free BuddyPress theme. No coding required! Beautifully designed to create a stunning social network website for all niches and is equipped with clean code and easy-to-customize options.

You can also try the demo to check the functionalities and layout.

Yes, BuddyPress is a Plugin and Divi is a theme. So, Buddypress Plugin will work with all types of the theme.