Plugins add a lot of functionality to your website – here are the ones we often use and recommend:
BuddyBoss-integrated
- BP Profile Search
Adds a configurable search form to your Members directory, so visitors can find site members by searching their extended profiles. This plugin is deeply integrated with the BuddyBoss theme. Demo → - oEmbed for BuddyPress
The easiest way for members to share their favorite content from sites like YouTube, Flickr, and Hulu on their profile Walls. Simply enter any URL from one of these sites into a Wall update or forum post and it will display an embedded image or video.
Premium Plugins (Contact Forms, Payments, Subscriptions)
- Gravity Forms
Allows you to easily create forms, view and edit entries within WordPress, receive email notifications, and export form entries to Excel. It is a superb plugin. - PHPurchase
Allows you to sell digital and physical products through your WordPress site. On-page payment integration with PayPal Pro and Authorize.net, inventory tracking, along with memberships and subscriptions. Incredibly easy to use and powerful. We use it on BuddyBoss for selling our themes. - s2Member
Allows you to restrict access to content based on up to four membership levels. It integrates seamlessly with PayPal Pro for on-site payment and fully supports recurring billing, with the ability to track affiliate commissions on a recurring basis.
User Management
- Welcome Pack
When a user registers on your site, Welcome Pack lets you automatically send them a friend or group invitation, a Welcome Message and can redirect them to a Start Page. - BP Group Management
Lets you easily manage group membership by banning, unbanning, promoting and demoting current members of any group, adding members to any group, and deleting groups. - BuddyPress Topic Mover
Sometimes your users may inadvertently place a forum topic under the incorrect group. This plugin makes it easy to move those topics to the correct groups. - Subscribe to Comments
Enables blog commenters to sign up for e-mail notification of subsequent comments.
Website Maintenance
- WordPress Database Backup
Provides scheduled backups of your core WordPress database tables and saves them to your server and can even email them to you. - WordPress Backup
Lets you easily backup the upload directory (images), current theme directory, and plugins directory to a zip file. Zip files can be optionally sent to your email. - WP DB Optimizer
Optimize your database tables in one click for improved speed performance. - Quick Page/Post Redirect
Allows you to redirect links within your website. Useful for migrating a website, changing domains and forwarding outdated pages to newer pages.
Spam Prevention
- Akismet
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. This plugin comes packaged with WordPress and we highly recommend using it. - WP-Hashcash
Eradicates comment spam by confirming (via Javascript) that a user actually opened your website in a web browser. It works very well. - WPMU Super CAPTCHA
Prevents spam sign ups and blog creations on your BuddyPress site by forcing a visual confirmation CAPTCHA in order to login.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
- All in One SEO Pack
Optimizes your WordPress site for search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. - WP Title 2
Allows you to add a heading for any link in your navigation, and a different heading for the corresponding page. This lets you use short heading in the navigation and longer, more descriptive headings on the pages.
Twitter and Facebook
- ShareThis
Adds buttons to share your pages and blog posts through email, Facebook, Twitter and 50+ social networks. - Twitter for WordPress
Displays yours latest tweets in a WordPress widget.
Some of the plugins listed here are no longer compatible with WP3.2.1 or BP 1.5
oEmbed for example seems to not work well with the current builds. Do you have any alternate recommendations?
You should no longer need to use the oEmbed for BuddyPress plugin. oEmbed functionality is actually built into BuddyPress 1.5.
oEmbed doesnt work anymore – with or without plugin
Is there a plug in that can sync facebook wall post to users buddypress wall or stream?
BuddyStream does, but it’s premium and a bit iffy at times.
WordPress Backup link is dead
is there any plugin lilke custom-upload-dir which will work with buddyboss to manager uploaded content???
Nice thread … admin/ guys please recommend me plugin that can
1. Import users Facebook profile info, pictures albums and videos to buddypress and get nicely integrated in BuddyBoss theme
2. some chat plugin that is good (i saw ajax but its giving errors)
3. sync facebook status to BB theme nicely in real time OR cron
4. Good event manager plugin
JP
Ping,
1) Does not exist
2) many of our users use cometchat
3) Facestream should do the trick
4) http://buddypress.org/community/groups/events-manager/
Facestream is no longer supported. Is it still working well with the current versions of WP and BP?
is there a plugin to bring buddypress top grey navigation bar (profile etc) into my regular wordpress menu?
Oliver, what regular WordPress menu are you referring to?
When you go to Profile>Photos> and right click on one of the photo and click “open link with new tab” there image looks messy. There is no css in this page. Didn’t you guys style attachment.php ? or are guys using other method to show a picture? Can you guys fix this?
Towfiq,
We use AJAX to open the picture in a custom formatted div.
If you really wanted to fix it you could use an htaccess redirect using a regex for anything like “/activity/([0-9]{1,9})/?buddyboss_ajax_pic_page=true” to redirect to “/activity/$1/”
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-TJ Chester
BuddyBoss Support Specialist
So far the best album I’ve found is Cincopa’s Easy Album.
CLEditor seems to be what I need for sitewide forum comments and blog comments styling (WYSIWYG).. but there seems to be a conflict with how it loads in my theme..?