One of the most popular plugins for building an online community is BuddyPress. BuddyPress helps you build any kind of community website with member profiles, activity streams, user groups, messaging, and more.

What is BuddyPress?

BuddyPress is designed to allow schools, companies, sports teams, or any other niche community to start their own social network or communication tool. BuddyPress inherits and extends upon the integral functional elements of the WordPress engine including themes, plugins, and widgets.

How do you customize Buddypress?

To customize BuddyPress:buddypress contains template files; copy any you want to modify into a directory named buddypress in your themes root. eg. / wp-content/themes/mytheme/buddypress/css contains style sheets; copy any you want to modify into a directory named css in your themes root. eg. /