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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Infobox software<br />
| name = BuddyPress<br />
| logo = Logo-budypress.gif<br />
| logo size = 250px<br />
| screenshot = <br />
| caption = Profile page for BuddyPress user<br />
| developer = John Jacoby, Paul Gibbs, Boone Georges, Andy Peatling, Pike Winchurkar<br />
| latest release version = 3.2.0<br />
| latest release date = {{release date and age|2018|09|14}}<br />
| latest preview version = <br />
| latest preview date = <br />
| platform = [[PHP]], [[MySQL]], [[WordPress]]<br />
| genre = [[Blog publishing system]], [[Social Networking]]<br />
| license = [[GNU General Public License]] version 2<br />
| website = http://buddypress.org/<br />
| operating_system = [[Cross-platform]]<br />
}}<br />
{{Portal|Free software}}<br />
'''BuddyPress''' is an [[open source]] [[social networking]] software package owned by [[Automattic]] since 2008.<ref>{{cite web<br />
| url = http://wpdope.com/automattic-acquires-buddypress/<br />
| title = Automattic Acquires BuddyPress<br />
| author = Brian Brandt | authorlink=<br />
| accessdate = June 30, 2011 | date = March 5, 2008| publisher = WPdope<br />
}}</ref> It is a plugin that can be installed on [[WordPress]] to transform it into a social network platform.<ref>{{cite web<br />
| url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/30/AR2009043004142.html<br />
| title = Automattic Rolls Out A WordPress For Social Networks<br />
| author = Joseph Tartakoff | authorlink=<br />
| accessdate = June 30, 2011 | date = May 1, 2009| publisher = [[The Washington Post]]<br />
}}</ref> BuddyPress is designed to allow schools, companies, sports teams, or any other niche community to start their own social network or communication tool.<br />
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BuddyPress inherits and extends upon the integral functional elements of the WordPress engine including themes, plugins, and [[GUI widget|widgets]]. As it is built on WordPress, it is written using the same primary technologies, [[PHP]] and [[MySQL]].<br />
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In 2010, BuddyPress was placed third in [[Packt]]'s Most Promising Open Source Project Awards, losing to [[Pimcore]] and TomatoCMS.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/results-of-the-2010-most-promising-open-source-project-buddypress-finishes-3rd/|title=Results of the 2010 Most Promising Open Source Project Awards: BuddyPress Finishes 3rd|work=WPMU DEV Blog|access-date=2018-10-12|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-cms/packt-awards-most-promising-open-source-project-award-009218.php|title=Packt Awards: Most Promising Open Source Project Award|work=CMSWire.com|access-date=2018-10-12|language=en-us}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
* {{cite book | last=Sabin-Wilson | first=L. | title=BuddyPress For Dummies | publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons|Wiley]] | series=For Dummies | year=2010 | isbn=978-0-470-56801-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6LpNbB4VxSAC&printsec=frontcover | ref=harv}} 314 pages.<br />
* {{cite book | last=Lister | first=T. | title=BuddyPress Theme Development | publisher=[[Packt Publishing]] | year=2013 | isbn=978-1-78328-162-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rV6PAQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover | ref=harv}} 130 pages.<br />
* {{cite book | last=Hedengren | first=T.D. | title=Smashing WordPress Themes: Making WordPress Beautiful | publisher=Wiley |chapter=Chapter 10 | series=Smashing Magazine Book Series | year=2011 | isbn=978-0-470-97024-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=_HcrPa4zg4EC&oi=fnd&pg=PT315 | ref=harv}}<br />
* {{cite web | title=Blogging in the Classroom: Using WordPress Blogs with BuddyPress Plugin as a Learning Tool | website=Journal of Advertising Education | date=August 7, 2016 | url=http://search.proquest.com/openview/d9cedb28b0d37d517389ab04171f86b1/1?pq-origsite=gscholar | ref={{sfnref | ProQuest | 2016}} | accessdate=August 7, 2016 | pages=5–17}}<br />
* {{cite web | last=Siegler | first=MG | title=BuddyPress Launches: May A Thousand Social Networks Bloom (Someday) | website=[[TechCrunch]] | date=April 30, 2009 | url=https://techcrunch.com/2009/04/30/buddypress-launches-may-a-thousand-social-networks-bloom/ | ref=harv | accessdate=August 7, 2016}}<br />
* {{cite web | last=Eldon | first=Eric | title=WordPress’s BuddyPress is the web’s social network in a box | website=[[VentureBeat]] | date=April 30, 2009 | url=https://venturebeat.com/2009/04/30/wordpresss-buddypress-is-the-webs-social-network-in-a-box/ | ref=harv | accessdate=August 7, 2016}}<br />
* {{cite web | title=14+ Best Buddypress Themes For 2016 - Top Social Network Themes | website=[[The Jerusalem Post]] | date=August 7, 2016 | url=http://www.jpost.com/PromoContent/14-Best-Buddypress-Themes-For-2016-Top-Social-Network-Themes-443617 | ref={{sfnref | The Jerusalem Post &#124; JPost.com | 2016}} | accessdate=August 7, 2016}}<br />
* {{cite book | last=Jones | first=K.M.L. | last2=Farrington | first2=P.A. | title=Learning from Libraries that Use WordPress: Content-management System Best Practices and Case Studies | publisher=American Library Association | year=2013 | isbn=978-0-8389-1162-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dRKSAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA95 | pages=95–99}}<br />
* {{cite web | author=Santos | title=Social networks with BuddyPress | website=ACM Digital Library | url=http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2618202 | doi=10.1145/2618168.2618202 | ref=harv | accessdate=August 7, 2016 | pages=182–183}}<br />
* {{cite web | last=Team | first=Online Services | title=WordPress multi-user: BuddyPress and beyond | website=[[University of Lincoln]], The Lincoln Repository | date=May 15, 2015 | url=http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/2084/ | ref=harv | accessdate=August 7, 2016}}<br />
* Jones, Kyle (2011). [http://go.galegroup.com/ps/anonymous?id=GALE%7CA255559916&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=fulltext&issn=00242586&p=AONE&sw=w&authCount=1&isAnonymousEntry=true "Buddypress and higher education."] ''Library Technology Reports''/[[Gale (publisher)|Gale]]. 47.3.<br />
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