Global, personal, and group activity streams with single-stream view. Included are threaded commenting, status updates, favorites, @mentions, RSS feeds, and email notifications.
BuddyPress
Social networking, in a box.
Everything you need to start your own
self-hosted and WordPress-powered
social network!
Download BuddyPress 1.6.1
Activity Streams
Friend Connections
Let your users make friend connections so they can track the activity each other, and focus on the people they care about the most.
Private Messaging
Private messaging allows your users to talk to each other directly, in private. Users can even send messages to multiple recipients at a time.
User Groups
Powerful public, private or hidden groups allow your users to break the discussion down into specific topics. Extend groups with your own custom features using the group extension API.
Extended Profiles
Fully editable profile fields allow you to define the fields users can fill in to describe themselves. Tailor profile fields to suit your audience.
User Settings
Allow your users to change their notification options and sensitive account information without needing to access your site's administration area.
Multisite Blogging
Start a blog built on the best blogging software in the world. Even allow each of your users to start their own full powered WordPress blog. Track new posts and comments across your site.
Discussion Forums
Full featured discussion forums built on the lightweight and powerful bbPress platform, built into groups allow for more in-depth conversations.
Need a feature not listed?
BuddyPress is infinitely extensible, just like WordPress. In fact, it’s a WordPress plugin so you can build or use plugins to extend or run alongside BuddyPress.
If you’re a WordPress plugin or theme developer then you already know the fundamentals of BuddyPress. You should be able to start building and designing for BuddyPress with very little extra work.
