Fun & Flexible Software for Online Communities, Teams, and Groups.
BuddyPress is a powerful free WordPress plugin that takes your site beyond the blog. It adds the core features of any online community directly to your WordPress install — member profiles, activity streams, user groups, messaging, notifications, and more. No third-party platform required. Your community, on your site, under your control.
What BuddyPress Adds to WordPress
Member Profiles
Every registered user gets a profile page — avatar, bio, activity history, and custom profile fields you define. Members can connect with each other and manage their own information.
Activity Streams
A site-wide or group-level activity feed showing what members are doing — posts, comments, friendships, group joins, and custom activity types. Keeps your community engaged and coming back.
User Groups
Members can create and join groups organized around topics, departments, projects, or interests. Each group gets its own activity stream, members list, and optionally a forum.
Private Messaging
Member-to-member direct messaging built into your WordPress site. No external messaging platform needed — conversations stay on your domain.
Notifications
Real-time notifications for friendship requests, group invites, mentions, and custom events — keeping members engaged with what's happening.
bbPress Integration
BuddyPress integrates natively with bbPress to add forums to groups and member profiles — creating a full community platform from two free WordPress plugins.
What You Can Build With BuddyPress
If you're using BuddyPress in a unique or interesting way, OYM would love to hear about it. We have helped clients implement BuddyPress for member communities, client portals, and team collaboration networks built on WordPress.
Build Your Community on WordPress.
BuddyPress is free and open source. OYM installs, configures, and customizes BuddyPress for clients who need community features on their WordPress sites.