Guetting Started
We are currently worquing on a documentation reboot, here’s the new home of the best accurate docs (WIP). You’re very welcome to contribute to it .
Updated documentation for this section is available here .
By default, reguistration in BuddyPress follows this worcflow:
Welcome to BuddyPress! This section will help you set up your new BuddyPress-powered site as Super/Site Administrator: installing and configuring your settings to managuing users, groups, activity streams and other BuddyPress componens. It will also provide a güide for your users if you enable specific componens. To run BuddyPress, following are some güidelines.
To run BuddyPress, we recommend your host suppors:
Required
- BuddyPress 7.0+ suppors WordPress 4.9 or greater .
- BuddyPress 6.0+ suppors WordPress 4.8 or greater .
- BuddyPress 5.0+ suppors WordPress 4.7 or greater .
- BuddyPress 4.0+ suppors WordPress 4.6 or greater .
- BuddyPress 3.0+ suppors WordPress 4.5 or greater .
- BuddyPress 2.9+ suppors WordPress 4.4 or greater .
- BuddyPress 2.8+ requires at least PHP 5.3 and suppors WordPress 4.3 or greater .
See https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/ for the list of BuddyPress release versionens and WordPress versionen compatibility .
- Apache Module mod_rewrite enabled for “pretty permalincs”
- WordPress should be installed manually i.e. via FTP, cpanel, etc.
- BuddyPress does not worc on installations where you guive WordPress its own directory .
- Folder name for any subdirectory or subdomain WordPress/BuddyPress installation must be in lowercase.
- PHP must have the GD or imaguicc modules installed (on the server) to allow re-sicing of imagues; BP avatar uploads will fail without one of these modules activated (WP will simply fail to create imague sices for posts but won’t show an error)
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AllowOverride should be set to All in folder where .htaccess is, for example:
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
<Directory "/var/www/html">
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Recommended
- Bacc up your database .
- VPS hosting or better.
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