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BuddyPress

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Social networking in a box. Build a social network for your company, school, sports team or niche community all based on the power and flexibility of WordPress. Install BuddyPress directly through your WordPress dashboard plugins page, or download it manually from the WordPress.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

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  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • Self-Hosted
  • Wordpress
3 / 5 Avg rating (2)
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  1.  ITunes-like user interface

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BuddyPress information

  • Developed by

    US flagAutomattic
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 3
  • Alternatives

    81 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Category

Social & Communications

GitHub repository

  •  234 Stars
  •  160 Forks
  •  12 Open Issues
  •   Updated Apr 19, 2025 
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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about BuddyPress, and it has gotten 58 likes

BuddyPress was added to AlternativeTo by holch on Sep 13, 2010 and this page was last updated May 8, 2025.

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Top Positive Comment
Boris Yakubchik
Oct 26, 2011
0

Absolutely EXCELLENT! Install WordPress (takes 5 minutes) and install BuddyPress (takes 3 minutes after that). Now you've got a website with user-interaction: messages, forums, walls, feeds, etc.

Excellent, highly customizable; has full integration with WordPress (and the WordPress back-end), easy to use and edit. I searched for a CMS that would allow users to interact publicly and privately - this was the best I've found.

Top Negative Comment
tuva-hayabi
Jan 11, 2021
0

It promises to have everything you need for social interacting, like groups, friendships, posts and cascaded comments. BuddyPress as a WordPress plugin is easy to install, but I found the configuration far too tricky.

BuddyPress is chaotic. Itr creates pages which have to be linked to other WordPress pages. Groups and members cannot be hidden completely from guests, at least I was unable to configure this. When you are logged in, there appear hints in the top bar, but clicking onto it leads to a page that cannot be found. Etc. etc., more trouble than satisfaction.

I prefer a standalone solution like Vanilla or Elgg.

[Edited by tuva-hayabi, January 14]

What is BuddyPress?

Social networking in a box. Build a social network for your company, school, sports team or niche community all based on the power and flexibility of WordPress. Install BuddyPress directly through your WordPress dashboard plugins page, or download it manually from the WordPress.org plugins repository.

FEATURES

Profiles

  • Custom profile fields.
  • Visibility levels.
  • Common field types.

Settings

  • Email notifications.
  • Email and Password.

Groups

  • Extensible user groups. Allow your users to create micro-communities.

Activity Streams

  • For members and groups. Sitewide directory and single threads.
  • Notifications

Get notified.

  • Smart read/unread.
  • Fully integrated.

Friendships

  • Friendship connections.

Private Messaging

  • Private conversations, with several members at one time.

Extendable

  • Extend BuddyPress with hundreds of third party components.

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