BuddyPress

How  to Install BuddyPress |

How to Set up BuddyPress or How to Build Social Network by using BuddyPress: buddypress features, buddypress themes, buddypress plugins & buddypress settings

BuddyPress: A fully fledged & Official WordPress Plugin for online community & social networking.

While working with Wordpress websites, we come across various plug-ins which are used to enhance the performance & functionality of website.

One such plug-in which aids in creating the community or a social network with its community features, is BuddyPress. Various functional elements of PHP like plug-ins, themes & widgets can be inherited & get extended with BuddyPress and this is also known as an official plugin for WordPress. It fully supports social networking and online community features such as making user profiles, user groups, activity streams, message attachments & notifications, document collaborations etc. Wordpress.org alone supports more than 700 plugins for BuddyPress.

We just have to log into our WordPress account and then start working BuddyPress by searching through plugin’s area. We have to download and install BuddyPress plugin. After that we are ready to go with it.

Some features of BuddyPress are listed below:

• University, school or college can enjoy campus wide social network
• Groups with specific interests can have their niche of social networks
• Products & Services can be managed with focussed communities
• Internal collaboration & communication tool for company & employees

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BuddyPress has various components that can be integrated unswervingly with our website. It is also compatible with other plugins. We can even select only those features that we want to use otherwise we can drop them by unselecting them using checkboxes available. The menu items, pages and buttons for the enabled features can be seen as well.

It allows its users to share our thoughts, create groups, connect with people, creating profiles and many more actions can be performed using BuddyPress. BuddyPress is popular for creating dating websites. As it provides numerous features that support dating websites’ modules, we don’t have to add much in dating website that we wish to create.

Matrid Technologies has assisted one of the preeminent company of dating website in New York with the development services of BuddyPress. For any sort of BuddyPress Development , feel free to get in touch with Matrid BuddyPress Experts.

We can install and set up BuddyPress by going through following steps:

For installing BuddyPress we need to follow some steps, along with that we can do more additional settings to enhance its functionality:

•    Let’s start firstly with Installing BuddyPress, for which:

a)    From your WordPress dashboard, we will scroll to the section of ‘Plugins’ to fetch the link for “Add New’ and will search for “BuddyPress” and it will appears primarily.

WordPress dashboard → Plugins  →  Add New →  Search BuddyPress

b)    After selecting the option of ‘BuddyPress’, we need to install it & after it's downloading, we need to activate Plugin. This will leads you to the welcome screen of “BuddyPress”.

Install BuddyPress→ Download BuddyPress → Activate Plugin

•  After activating the BuddyPress PlugIn, we can have the configuration of “Settings” as well. For this we will select the section of “Settings” and then we move forward to the link of “BuddyPress” and select the tab of “Settings” from the screen of BuddyPress.

We can even have the configuration of settings directly from welcome screen of BuddyPress when we firstly install it, from the tab of “Get Started”.

WordPress Dashboard Settings→ BuddyPress → Settings

This will have the various choices for required settings, for profile syncing, creating new groups, profiles or deleting account, allowing activity streams on blogs & forum posts etc. After selecting the required settings, we can save them with the tab of “Save Settings”.

•      For making new user accounts on your site, we need to move to the section of “Settings”, and then we have the link of “General”. From there in parallel to the option of “Membership”, we need to mark the checkbox for “Anyone can register”.

        Wordpress Dashboard Settings →  General → Membership → selected Anyone can register

Along with this we need to scroll down further to link of ‘BuddyPress’, under the tab of ‘Settings’, we have the option of ‘Toolbar’ in parallel to which we will mark the checkbox for “Show the toolbar for logged out users”.

                Wordpress Dashboard Settings →  BuddyPress → Toolbar  → selected Show the toolbar for logged out users.

While learning out from this session for BuddyPress installation & BuddyPress settings, if you feel stuck; then feel free to  hire buddypress experts & developers from Matrid Technologies.

•      In order to set up User Profiles Fields, we move to the section of ‘Users’ and select the option for ‘Profile Fields’. This will allow us to enable the profile fields that we wish to have for initial phase of sign-ups of our users under the required name of profile group or simply “Base Profile”. Once the signup process is completed, we can add new profile fields groups in case more of the information is required from users.

                                         Users → Profile Fields

•      We can also Activate the components of BuddyPress. For this we need to scroll to the section of ‘Settings’, and open the tab of “Components” coming on the screen after selecting the link of “BuddyPress”. We need to activate the components like Extended Profiles, Friend Connections, User Groups, Private Messaging, Site Tracking etc as per our requirements & then easily save the settings done.

WordPress Dashboard Settings → BuddyPress → Components → Save Settings

•      After getting the components for BuddyPress, we can even attach pages to them.

We need to have the section of ‘Settings’ from where under the title of ‘BuddyPress’, we have the option for “Pages”. Pages though get created and attached to the BuddyPress components, anyhow we can some customizable pages for our components by clicking simple sub-option of ‘Add New’ under the option of ‘Pages’, having two blank pages of Registration & Activation. Then after creating the pages, go back to the Settings and then to BuddyPress and assign the pages with required  components. After doing the required settings don’t forget to save them with tab of “Save Settings”.

Settings → BuddyPress → Pages → Add New → Save Settings

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