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 →
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. You can even configure it to let your users create blog posts from the front-end! 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 Useful for migrating a website, changing domains and forwarding outdated pages to newer pages.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.
Jean-Pierre said on October 24, 2011
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?
Michael Eisenwasser (Admin) said on October 24, 2011
You should no longer need to use the oEmbed for BuddyPress plugin. oEmbed functionality is actually built into BuddyPress 1.5.
Ozhef said on October 30, 2011
oEmbed doesnt work anymore – with or without plugin
Daniel Schulz-Jackson said on May 11, 2012
Hmm. You might remove it from this list then, no? To keep us from getting confused…
Unwired Tech said on October 27, 2011
Is there a plug in that can sync facebook wall post to users buddypress wall or stream?
Skyrie said on November 3, 2011
BuddyStream does, but it’s premium and a bit iffy at times.
Mike Karle said on October 28, 2011
WordPress Backup link is dead
hijab said on October 29, 2011
is there any plugin lilke custom-upload-dir which will work with buddyboss to manager uploaded content???
Ping said on December 1, 2011
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
TJ Chester (Admin) said on December 1, 2011
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/
KA said on January 17, 2012
Facestream is no longer supported. Is it still working well with the current versions of WP and BP?
Oliver said on December 12, 2011
is there a plugin to bring buddypress top grey navigation bar (profile etc) into my regular wordpress menu?
TJ Chester (Admin) said on December 14, 2011
Oliver, what regular WordPress menu are you referring to?
Towfiq I. said on December 16, 2011
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?
TJ Chester (Admin) said on December 18, 2011
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/”
For further support issue please use our support forums at http://www.buddyboss.com/forum
-TJ Chester
BuddyBoss Support Specialist
Mandy said on January 15, 2012
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..?
DK said on March 7, 2012
But I did not find any Plugin to activate the default wordpress admin bar, it’s ’cause I’m running the BP installation as a second blog in my WPMU network, so I need the WPMU menus in the admin bar, and I wanted to activate the default WP admin bar, but I could not, I’ve already added the code to call de default admin bar, but anything happened.
How can I do that?
Thanx
TJ Chester (Admin) said on March 12, 2012
DK,
You will need to add the CSS for the admin bar to make it show up. The code alone will not be enough.
Thomas said on March 13, 2012
How the heck to change the image to a group when you create it, from the back-end? I can’t find a plugin or way to give each group a unique image from the admin area.
Any help would be great.
TJ Chester (Admin) said on March 13, 2012
Thomas,
You can not edit the group image from the back-end. You can only edit from the front-end, otherwise you defeat the purpose of ease of use for your network members.
Thomas said on March 13, 2012
Sorry, my reply sounded snide, I’m sure that’s a BuddyPress thing, not doing it from the backend (I believe I read something like this to when I Google’d) – not a BuddyBoss thing.
Multitasking.
G’day.
Thomas said on March 13, 2012
Makes sense. I assumed ease-of-use for both. Oh well. It wouldn’t be an issue if I had better access to coming at my site through the front end right now. But that’s not BP or WPs fault.
Thank you!
DK said on March 14, 2012
I’ve got a big problem!!!!
When a mention is made I can not see this mention, when I click to see it takes me to a page that says:
Page Not Found
The page you were looking for was not found.
What do I have to do to fix this problem?
DK said on March 14, 2012
I mean, I activated the wordpress default admin bar on buddy boss and it has a “Mentions” menú and when there’s a mention it appears there, and when I click, I get redirected to /members/admin/mention
How can I fix that?
Thanks
TJ Chester (Admin) said on March 15, 2012
DK,
We have a dedicated forum, please use that for future reference to this matter: http://www.buddyboss.com/forum
Do you have any plugins that call jQuery? If so, disable them and try again.
HD said on April 21, 2012
I really like the wall to wall FB style messaging you’ve built into Buddyboss, but I’ve already started building with a different theme. Is there a chance you’ve made a plugin that would ad that wall to wall functionality to other BP themes?
Thanks!
TJ Chester (Admin) said on April 22, 2012
Sorry, our features are only available in theme form.
jason said on May 2, 2012
Hi, i want to purchase your theme, but ive already installed lots of buddy press plug-ins. Im worried that once i activate your theme, i may get errors because your theme may have the plug-ins that i already have installed.
Should i deactivate all of the buddypress plug-ins and then install?
Thank-you
TJ Chester (Admin) said on May 6, 2012
You should deactivate your plugins upon install and re-enable them one by one until you come across a conflict. Then you know which ones you may need to find an alternative for.
Gualter said on August 3, 2012
i am having trouble posting photos to news feed
any sugestions?
TJ Chester (Admin) said on August 8, 2012
I would suggest disabling all of your plugins and try again. For faster response to support plase use our support forums at http://www.buddyboss.com/forum
Darren Hayward said on October 16, 2012
Do you know a plugin that will enable file sharing and file searching?
TJ Chester (Admin) said on October 17, 2012
Darren,
There is not a plugin that will do this out of the box, however, this page may help you on your way: http://labsecrets.com/2011/02/12/an-instant-file-sharing-system-with-wordpress-gravity-forms/