BuddyPress development

BuddyPress development for a community that is already live.

Custom features for an active BuddyPress community: activity streams, groups, profiles, messaging and the integrations your members actually need.

Scoping
Free
Built on
A staging clone
Handover
Your repository
Estimate
Within 24 hours

What we build

Work on live BuddyPress communities, where a mistake costs members, not just orders.

Activity streams and feeds

Custom activity types, filtering, moderation rules and feed performance work for communities where the stream is the product. This is the part members look at every day, so it is the part we test hardest.

Groups and moderation

Custom group types, roles beyond the defaults, approval workflows and reporting tools that scale past a few hundred members.

Member profiles and xProfile

Custom profile fields, visibility rules, directory search and profile layouts that match your community, not a generic template.

Messaging and notifications

Private messaging, group threads, email digests and real-time notifications that do not spam or go missing.

Membership and LMS integrations

Paywalls, subscriptions, and LearnDash, Tutor or Sensei tied into activity, groups and profiles.

BuddyBoss and BuddyNext interoperability

Feature work that reads correctly whether your members are on BuddyPress, BuddyBoss or BuddyNext.

The kind of change we mean

Real examples of one specific change. BuddyBoss customization works the same way.

A field on the member profile

Add an xProfile field, change how one displays, or make a field conditional on member type.

A rule about who sees what

A visibility rule for one group, a restriction on one profile field, a moderation rule for one activity type.

A notification that says the right thing

An email or in-app notification rewritten to match what actually happened and what you want the member to do next.

A template that looks wrong

An activity stream, a group page or a profile layout that does not match the rest of the site.

A report you keep building by hand

A member export, an engagement summary or a moderation log you currently assemble yourself every week.

Something BuddyBoss nearly does

You configured the platform and it does most of it. We write the remaining piece as a small extension, not a fork.

How a project runs

  1. Brief and estimate

    You send the problem or the feature you want. We review within a day and come back with scope, cost and a date. No charge for this.

  2. Staging build

    Work happens on a clone of your community. Nothing touches production until you have seen it.

  3. Review and revise

    You test it with real member scenarios. Changes at this stage are part of the quote, not a variation.

  4. Ship and watch

    Deployed with a rollback path, then monitored through the first days of real member traffic.

  5. Handover

    Code in your repository, documented well enough for another developer to continue.

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Common questions

Will this survive a BuddyPress update?
We build against documented hooks and template parts rather than editing BuddyPress core, so an update should not break the work. Where a template override is unavoidable we tell you at handover.
Do you work with our existing developer?
Often. We work to an existing codebase's conventions rather than imposing ours, and we document what we add.
Can you take over an abandoned project?
Yes. The first step is an audit of what is there, priced separately, so nobody is guessing at the state of it.
Can you work on a live community with members online?
Yes. Development happens on a staging clone and we schedule the production release for low-traffic hours, with a rollback path ready.
How small is too small?
Nothing is too small to ask about. Some requests turn out to be a setting already in BuddyPress or BuddyBoss, and we would rather point you at it than invoice for it.
How long does one change take?
Usually days, not weeks. The quote includes a date, and you hear from us before that date if anything is going to slip.

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