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What do you like best about BuddyPress?

I love that Buddypress basically gives you the framework to create an online community that is based on your website / online membership. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BuddyPress?

I haven't used Buddypress for a few years now but I remember that it was very frustrating for my developers to make simple changes which were needed in order to streamline the user experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BuddyPress solving and how is that benefiting you?

I used Buddypress to help a client offer his membership a platform to communicate with each other securely and also for the membership to share tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What is BuddyPress?

BuddyPress is a social networking software for building communities inside WordPress sites.

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BuddyPress is a social networking software for building communities inside WordPress sites.


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Recent BuddyPress Reviews

Waqar J.
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Waqar J.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Help me create a giant forum for my clients."
Its allows me to create and manage social portal for a furniture company. Importantly it's all their requirements no big customization at all. Im h...
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Riya S.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Best Plugin for Wordpress sites."
The best part of using buddypress for me is they provide me many options to customize my site even i can integrate it with CRM. with Buddypress it ...
Amy S.
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Amy S.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"BuddyPress is an Amazing Plugin that Adds Communtiy features to WordPress sites"
BuddyPress is easy to install and use. It is also well supported and documented by the BuddyPress development community.
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What do you like best about BuddyPress?

The best part of using buddypress for me is they provide me many options to customize my site even i can integrate it with CRM. with Buddypress it become easy to customize my site. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BuddyPress?

I did not face any problems while working on BuddyPress. But sometime I experience slow performance otherwise I had a great experience while using it and love to explore more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BuddyPress solving and how is that benefiting you?

One of my customer asked me to build a website for social networking for their business where they can connect to their suppliers and contractors and talk with them. with BuddyPress I completed my work easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about BuddyPress?

BuddyPress is easy to install and use. It is also well supported and documented by the BuddyPress development community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BuddyPress?

I have been using BuddyPress for over 5 years and I have not found anything not to like about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BuddyPress solving and how is that benefiting you?

BuddyPress allows developers to quickly add community features to their web projects. The benefits are thousands of hours saved by not having to code similar functionality from scratch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about BuddyPress?

I like that there are various options to customize your site and that you can integrate it with a CRM, and a membership gateway such as Memberium or Memberpress. This platform has allowed us to create a private membership site and community for our members. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BuddyPress?

There are some customizations that you have to download a third-party plug-in to make and then some customizations would require a web developer to make. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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If you want to create a membership site away from the mainstream social media platforms this is a great way to do it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BuddyPress solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have been able to create a private membership site. A place that is reserved for our paying members and it is a safe place for conversation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vinesh M.
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What do you like best about BuddyPress?

BP is dead easy to set up. Default pages are created automatically and mapped to their proper functions. also, I liked the option of being able to customize and create a social media website similar to Facebook, Twitter, etc. it's an open-source plugin for WordPress which is free to cost. Even you can customize it if you've some programming knowledge. The thing, I love about BuddyPress is its huge community support. I needed a backend for my website and I thought this was going to be a great option. It wasn't.

The team there is very nice and responsive, but it wasn't fit for my company. We ended up going with a project management back end. With BuddyPress, you get to make your website social and interactive. I wanted to create a website where people could talk and interact but I was not sure i could handle a forum. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BuddyPress?

No built-in media uploading. Activity updates are similarly crippled. There's no text editor so users can't even add inline hypertext links. Finally, after posting the problem to different online forums, it was resolved. Compatibility issue is one thing BuddyPress user may battle with, especially on WordPress users.

The plugin may not work well with some themes and plugins. It doesn't provide you complete social media site feature, so you need other plugins or you need coding to create features as per your requirements. also add a new profile img. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering BuddyPress:

This is the best plugin community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BuddyPress solving and how is that benefiting you?

All the functional events I want it on my website. the best work on my site. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jonny A.
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What do you like best about BuddyPress?

BuddyPress is a very flexible community based platform build as a plugin for WordPress. The main things I really like about BuddyPress is it's flexibility from a coding perspective. It's built with developers in-mind with a large range of hooks and over-ridable functions that make customisations a breeze! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BuddyPress?

At times the documentation can be a-little sparse so it can be tricky to find answers when you are getting into deep customisation - although that's improving all the time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BuddyPress solving and how is that benefiting you?

I've created a couple of large enterprise level sites with BuddyPress, along with a small handful of smaller community based projects. One of the biggest solutions it provides is complete control of your communities data - from a privacy point of view (and that of your members) it's a good thing to have this control away from the big platforms like Facebook. Ultimately it provides a quick way to deploy a very functional community site to help people interact with each other. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about BuddyPress?

The ease of set up was a standout for us. Anything we needed to do seemed pretty straightforward over all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BuddyPress?

For the most part, BuddyPress did what we had intended it to do. We were a team of designers and developers, so working around limitations was a part of our daily life. Otherwise, BuddyPress gave us what we were looking for structurally. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering BuddyPress:

If you are looking for a solution that has longevity - this is it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BuddyPress solving and how is that benefiting you?

We were tasked with 'creative a little internal social network' and BuddyPress was the fastest way forward. We were able to provide our staff and clients access and limit or expand their security as necessary. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about BuddyPress?

Buddpress is one of the best community portal for CMS. Buddy press is a very user-Friendly plugin in WordPress. If Anyone wants To create Own community Portal for their company. I will suggest BuddyPress because the overall development time and cost would be significantly less. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BuddyPress?

But we have very less plugin in market place for other feature like wiki, file management And. File sharing. For each community portal file sharing option for group user or another group member. That option is not there. And for file management also there is no restriction and no private folder for each user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BuddyPress solving and how is that benefiting you?

One of my c asked the community portal for their company. I checked their requirement. That time I realise BuddyPress will be suitable for their requirement even though some main features is not there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Doug M.
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What do you like best about BuddyPress?

Easy to setup and install; it fit in with the wordpress way of creating things. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BuddyPress?

I found that we'd have to customize the software a lot in order to make it work for our client. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BuddyPress solving and how is that benefiting you?

We were trying to setup a site to use for shared economy; ie, we wanted to allow members to be able to purchase from other members. We didn't choose the solution because there was a lot of customization involved, and the client wanted to choose a non wordpress solution to go forward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Waqar J.
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What do you like best about BuddyPress?

Its allows me to create and manage social portal for a furniture company. Importantly it's all their requirements no big customization at all. Im happy and my clients too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BuddyPress?

The emails controls and it types especially when you have to deal with high amount of members in your sites. It slows down the flow sometimes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering BuddyPress:

Make something for email sending in background. It optimize the UX and overall system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BuddyPress solving and how is that benefiting you?

My client asked me for social networking forum where there contractor and suppliers can meet and discuss. Or share idea or documents in groups. I got it done instantly from buddypress Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about BuddyPress?

Social Features / Profiles / Groups / Activity section Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BuddyPress?

Nothing particular. Maybe performance could have been better as in some cases there are certain limitations when the community grows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering BuddyPress:

I think it's the best available plugin with a lot of integrations available into the market which not only completes the requirement of social platforms without any particular cost or limitations. Moreover, it provides everything out of the box in an instance and quite easy to manage by any type of user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BuddyPress solving and how is that benefiting you?

Mostly it's related to provide a kind of social part of the website to help people to communicate and interact with each other. It's a ready-made plugin for these kinds of features which mostly accommodate the required functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.