Rating: 1 star
The update to the new major version absolutely destroyed my BuddyPress community and content. Even after trying the BP Classic plugin, it was still non-functional, BP links would not go to the right pages, and lots of errors and 404’s. I’ve tried troubleshooting: I didn’t have any 3rd party BuddyPress plugins I, ran BP repair tools, cleaned my database out, lots. I’m just glad most of our community content was in bbPress, the forum software. That is all preserved. All the updates, memberships, friendships, and more that we depended on BuddyPress for is ruined. ??
Buddypress brought some interesting community functions, but after this disaster of a release, and the huge problems and time its been costing me, we need to reassess if it will be a part of our community’s future. I will look into a few other resolutions and if those don’t work, I’m giving up on Buddypress completely.
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It is not possible to link the pages to buddypress! Have tried and refreshed permalinks but it didn’t help! Have tested buddypress over the years, this was the last time. Very poor plugin and no howtos.
]]>Rating: 5 stars
All ok – its somewhat buggy but then it can’t be used to kill or enslave people so it doesn’t have big budget!
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I am running WP 6.4.3 with the BuddyApp and BuddyApp Child theme. Tried several times, always blank web page.
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when do install and active crash the site (theme – woffice) ..this is happen when do update the plugin…
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I am new to buddypress and try to understand the functions. I often work with elementor but since version 12 there are no physical wordpress pages I can load to the the editor.
Where is the documentation for that? One sentence here, one sentence there. Sorry, but your documentation is absolutely horrible. You hardly find what you want.
Rating: 2 stars
I installed BuddyPress 12.0 on my site, and it bricked the site. A number of WordPress critical errors were shown from multiple plugins.
The BP Classic plugin didn’t help.
Even reinstalling an earlier version of BuddyPress didn’t fix the issue. I had to restore from a backup of the site I took earlier.
If you’re even thinking of touching BuddyPress 12.0 you NEED to upgrade it in a staging environment first otherwise you could be very sorry.
So far this update is an incompatible mess for me, and recommend everyone else stay away until they can fix it.
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If you want to update your BuddyPress BE CAREFUL. Their latest update to v12.0 completely destroyed my community. No way to recover. I MUST restore with the latest backup taken last night. Luckily I tested this “amazing” update on my cloned test site.
Just be very careful when updating BP…
Rating: 5 stars
I find it very good plugin with basic features, but in reality, you need better design and more features / options.
If you want to save time to make your site look decent or not so good at coding yourself, I recommend you to go with paid themes.
Rating: 4 stars
A month ago I created my first WordPress site with one third-party plugin and the forum plug-in bbPress.
Getting a theme to work well with both plugins took quite a bit of time as I had to write a small bit of custom css and PHP. My knowledge of css and PHP is low. Actually it took a few weeks to get everything to look nice and work well together, although the work was done on a very part-time basis.
I now want to install BuddyPress and bbPress together on another WordPress site as community software for a certain niche.
Is there a reasonably low-priced (or free) theme I can purchase for BuddyPress (and that works with bbPress installed on the same site) that looks nice?
Please give me some recommendations. I don’t want to spend three weeks making css tweaks to get a decent look community website.
As regards reviewing BuddyPress (together with bbPress), I installed both a week ago. It is good BuddyPress allows you precisely to turn what functionality what want on and turn everything else off. For my case I just wanted the ability to allow BuddyPress groups to have their own associated bbPress forum. It worked, although the default themes are rather plain – hence my desire for a good theme recommendation. BuddyPress and bbPress work well together. My only issue is one common to all WordPress users. The more plugins you add to a WordPress site, the greater the chances of some little issues occurring, although this is not the fault of BuddyPress or bbPress.
When I was looking for what forum plug-in to use, I installed three different ones. bbPress was the most plain looking one by default. However bbPress was the only one that played nicely with all the other plug-ins. So I stuck with bbPress. After a little work, I managed to get bbPress looking good.
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We are almost in 2023 and this plugin doesn’t follow none of the modern trends in terms of design and features. The core functions are below average, the standard design of the plugin is awful, looks like a plugin built in the mid 2000s like the designs we used to see in 2006/2007. The plugin is very primitive, there are no reshare options for status, no likes for post but a weird star that doesn’t even gets notified to another user. Then why the hell the plugin doesn’t support medias by default? You need toooo many plugin just to add some small simple things that should be inside the plugin by default, like also live notifications. I’ve been using Buddypress for years and my conclusion is that this plugin has been built only to make you pay for everything and make everything super complex, this plugin is not really customer friendly and it’s not a nice choice to create a social network based platform, and if you want a decent social network prepare yourself to install 40+ plugins only for buddypress.
Rating: 4 stars
Plugin is great, our theme supports it. But there is a bug with blank page for the registration page, user profile edit page etc. etc. if theme contains ‘theme.json’ file but no ‘templates/index.html’ file (not block theme)
It can be fixed by adding this code into your ‘functions.php’ file or in the ‘after_theme_setup’ hook:
remove_theme_support( 'block-templates' );
We have spend almost two days to manage this problem.
]]>Rating: 5 stars
It already has many features, great dev team and it is highly extendable.
The UI might not be great, but using a BP-supporting theme can change that.
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I just spent the past six months trying to create a new website using BuddyBoss, and have given up. I had high hopes for BuddyBoss, but the product doesn’t live up to the hype. The one claim they make that they live up to is support, which is good.
If you want to build a site that’s a straightforward clone of Facebook, with no unique functions or features, BuddyBoss might work well for you.
But if your members need functions beyond ordinary social media, you’re probably better off with a plugin like Youzify that allows you to add these social media features to a regular WordPress site that allows you to do anything.
Here are just a few of the major problems we encountered:
1) They have a “BuddyBoss Integrations” webpage with a long list of plugins that supposedly are compatible with BuddyBoss, but I think they just mean your computer won’t blow up if you combine them. For instance, Elementor is on that list, which was a major plus since we use it heavily. But it turns out that none of the core BuddyBoss pages (like Groups, Forums, Members, etc.) are editable in Elementor: you can only create new pages in Elementor using their Sample page.
2) Don’t believe their claim of requiring fewer plugins: you’ll need tons of them. It’s true that you don’t need BuddyPress, but that’s about it for cutting down on plugins.
3) Many of our support requests got the reply that we would need to hire a professional developer to get what we want. Sometimes it seemed like sending business to developers was the reason they created BuddyBoss.
4) The turning point came when we realized that we were spending half our development time trying to work around BuddyBoss limitations. We bought it to make our lives easier, not harder.
We were far beyond the 14-day money back guarantee. But, since we never used BuddyBoss for even one minute on a live site, I was hoping for at least a partial refund, since it turned out to be useless to us. (There’s no way you can really discover that in just 14 days.) No such luck: $228 and six months of work wasted.
I worry about the future of the BuddyBoss company. They regularly have lifetime license offers that they push really hard. They are sacrificing future revenues for a cash infusion now, which makes me wonder whether they have staffed-up too fast and created too much overhead.
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First off I am a programmer and web developer. I thought I would try out buddypress with wordpress because I use wordpress for my blog. I am running buddypress locally on my pc with vagrant/virtualbox …
Buddypress itself works fine. I was really excited at first. I thought Oh wow this is cool, I can use this. I was playing around and I went to create a post and noticed there was no way to add any sort of media or emoji’s etc. It seems like things are missing all over. So I got to reading the Buddypress doc, then I got to googling.
It turns out that in order to allow users to add media you need a plugin. rtMedia is what came up. Ok I’ll add that. Try it out. Images upload everything else fails. Come to find out you need the transcoder for that. OK I think. I add that. WELLLL… Now you need to pay $9 a month. And if you want the pretty options of rtMedia you need to pay $499 a year. Ok what about reporting and mediating? More plugins. More money.
Want to let users edit their posts??? YEAH ANOTHER PLUGIN and More money$$$
Want to let users share ??? yeah you got it, another plugin.
This is as bad as the micro-transactions in games. Basically you will be plugin shopping just to create the basic feeling of a social platform. Being able to report content is very important.
I mean it seems like everything is a damned plugin and who knows if all of these plugins will work together or with my theme or blah blah blah.
I didn’t go much further. Who knows how many more plugins I would need to get an actual usable social platform that someone would use up and running.
There are many other options out there that work great, look great and cost less. Media is one of the most important parts of a social platform, without that it is nothing but a boring giant comment website.
Rating: 5 stars
It is somewat missing most of privacy tools for members tho:(
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It’s a great addition to any website that focuses on community. Because it is entirely FSE compatible, you will be able to develop a community website using a theme that is based on FSE.
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Me parece un grandísimo trabajo, muchas gracias.
]]>Rating: 5 stars
If you need basic community features for your website for free, you definitely should take a look at BuddyPress.
However, BuddyPress, by default, comes with very basic features, but this is its advantage. You can install extensions you need or code them on your own which allows you to not overload your project with features you don’t use.
And yes, you read this text thanks to BuddyPress.
]]>Rating: 1 star
The OTHER forum plugins give you a clear idea of what their plugin looks like when installed. Once activated the “Request Membership” attracting hundreds of spam memberships.
Usually there are Short Codes to add to a page to visit a part of the forum or the forum itself. This system creates it’s own pages and fills them with NOT WANTED ugly pages. It’s a mess,
Gods sake the BuddyPress 10.0 Page you get sent to all the time have the basics at the top. Instead you dive right into Membership requests, more engaging logging activities
Hello having settings in both settings AND tools again adds confusion.
At first glance one can’t see ANY dicussion forum, the support section is flooded with a bunch of options and other things NOT about the basic forum. I just found my posts made into BB posts (not what we need)
Uninstalled, never again beware
]]>Rating: 4 stars
This is great for adding communication features to a website.
The only annoying thing is that it loads its CSS files on all pages, even ones that aren’t BuddyPress ones.
Rating: 5 stars
This plugin is really awesome.
]]>Rating: 3 stars
Hey there,
i used buddypress before, and created some Profil pages, and now Google Console tells me this:
Either “name” or “item.name” must be specified
the Code where the Problem starts,
{“@type”:”ListItem”,”position”:2,”name”:””}] <<<<<<< and this NAME must be definied, but i dont know where to find the correct file for this. Can you fix this global or must i fix it itself for my website?
Rating: 5 stars
BuddyPress is a great plugin!
We were able to create several independent social networks on the multisite.
The basic functionality of the plugin works very well.
We include additional features with other plugins from the BuddyPress community.
And it’s all free!
Thanks to the developers.
I give 5 stars!
Rating: 1 star
To start with BuddyPress on its own is an absolute mess if you are trying to create a private social media site. It just doesn’t get the job done. Yes, there are third-party plugins that can seemingly do everything that you need but many are not up to date or only work with some themes and the entire thing just becomes an incohesive mess of plugins that were not meant to work together.
I did get a site working nearly the way I wanted it, but this was mostly due to Wbcom who seems to be a developer that rounds out all of the hard edges of BuddyPress through themes and plugins. I guess if you think of BuddyPress as a platform for experienced developers like Wbcom to make a useful social media site then I should change the rating to five stars.
BuddyPress as it is requires a tremendous amount of help from various plugins and themes before a social media site can be created. There are few resources to guide you through the process other than those that describe the particular plugin or theme which is hardly unbias as the majority have paid options to upsell.
The BuddyPress site itself has a tremendous amount of information but none of it very useful. There are a lot of unanswered questions that I found in my search with similar questions that I had. Many of the forum questions are a decade old and it is hard to know if they are relevant still. Aside form that the documentation is extensive but it is the kind of documentation that mostly reiterates the same description of options that are in the plugin pages next to each option.
What might be really useful is a wiki that guides a user through some common configuration options for a handful of different use cases. Even if using third party plugins to reach the goal since the guide wouldn’t be created by the plugin dev a user could trust that it was selected for the task and not in the hopes of upselling.
I’m not against people making money, and I’m happy to pay for code that is truly useful and helps me reach my website goals. In fact, after this experience the options that came up in my search that do not use BuddyPress but have annual license fees for turnkey solutions for a social media Website look more appealing than when I started.
I just hoped to do it with BuddyPress. If a social media site to help people create social media sites with BuddyPress would help us get there I’d be happy to host it and learn by trying to build it. I just cannot seem to get off the ground with anything useful other than Wbcom which I guess might be the way to go if using BuddyPresss.
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They say at the bottom of the download page “BuddyPress works out-of-the-box with nearly every WordPress theme,” this claim is misleading. I have installed BuddyPress on 4 premium themes and many manual configurations were needed.
The worst thing about BuddyPress is that it ignores some of the theme and site settings and there is no built-in settings page to disable the sidebar, for example. It’s the little basic things that make me rather pay money for a premium community/profile plugin than a free version like BuddyPress.
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If it were not commercial addons to BP (Youzify), it would not be possible to use it. Plugin that stopped in the 90s. Email service terrible. Archaic design. No SVG support, even though BP provides an SVG logo on its website:https://codex.buddypress.org/official-fonts-and-logos/. There are not many functionalities that, for example, also have free plugins available in the WP repository such as Ultimate Memeber or Peepso. I do not recommend. It’s a waste of time.
Rating: 1 star
A great idea!
Fantastic tool – if it worked.
But it doesn’t work.
It has several breaks in the installation, and most commonly for me, is the creation of the register and activate pages.
Pretty important features for a community building tool.
See, when users can’t register – there won’t be much of a community.
Tried several installs, on several platforms. It just doesn’t work.
Steer clear of this one.
Rating: 5 stars
good
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