Why I left BuddyPress

Watch Vito Peleg from WPFeedback tell you about why he left BuddyPress and created a thriving community using the BuddyBoss Platform and Theme

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BuddyBoss is used by Industry Leaders

We are seeing more and more leaders in the industry choose BuddyBoss to launch their WordPress powered social network

Vito Peleg

www.wpfeedback.com

Michael Short

www.waas-pro.com

Adam Preiser

www.wpcrafter.com

Pros & Cons of using BuddyPress

Pros

It’s years of development. It would be a huge project for a company to recreate all this from scratch and they’ll risk having too many bugs to handle.
Open Source This means that the code is available for you to modify, extend and do almost anything you want with it.
High code quality standards The developers that have been leading the development of BuddyPress have done a very good job keeping high standards in the quality of the code and development process.

Cons

No paid staff. All contributors have full time jobs and they’re volunteering their free time.
Development is moving too slow
Not the idea solution for customers who are launching an online community on WordPress.
BuddyPress is not serving our customers well
Very incomplete. Basic features. You need to add plugins for the most basic features. All these plugins are built by different developers and the whole thing is held together by rubber bands. Most of these plugins are adding features that really should be there out of the box, in a modern social network.
Our customers end up having a site with 20 or 30 different plugins, all built by different developers, managing multiple different license keys, different admin experiences and one plugin update, it could break the other plugin…and it ends up being a really poor experience for our customers.

Raising the bar with BuddyBoss

With BuddyBoss, you create and launch your online community faster, and without all the pain that comes with trying to make BuddyPress and bbPress work.

Simple Stack: One Plugin, One Theme, and if you want it, one Mobile App
Unified admin experience: The settings are organized beautifully, with video tutorials explaining each section. The forum functionality and the social networking functionality are brought together into the same plugin.
Synchronized updates: When we update the BuddyBoss Platform, we’ll usually update the BuddyBoss Theme on the same day. Contrast this with using plugins from different authors, and when new functionality gets added to the plugins, you realize that your theme doesn’t have styling for it, which means it won’t look nice. You then need to hire developers to style it for you and it becomes a pain to maintain it all.
The features you need, out of the box: We’ve added a huge set of features that are missing in BuddyPress, even very basic things like support for media. In BuddyPress you can’t add photos, you have to add a third party plugin for that. You can’t follow other users, you have to add a third party plugin for that.
Customer Support: BuddyPress doesn’t have professional support. You end up posting in forums and waiting for someone to respond. It will usually take a few days to weeks before someone responds, if they respond at all. At BuddyBoss, we have 24/7 customer support. We have a distributed team of support agents and an office of support agents with a 24/7 shifting schedule. At any time of the day there are agents ready to answer your questions, and if there’s a bug in the product we’ll go onto your website, patch it and fix it in the product.
Speed of development: We have a large team of developers working day and night, throughout the year on building new features and improving existing features. And we’re moving very aggressively. As the months go by, our feature set will keep stacking and stacking.
Compatible with BuddyPress plugins: If you’re migrating from BuddyPress, you can bring all the BuddyPress plugins with you. Since the BuddyBoss Platform started as a fork of BuddyPress and bbPress, we made sure to retain all the compatibility with the existing BuddyPress plugins.

What people are saying

More power out of the box

All the features you need to build a thriving online community, and more cool stuff in the pipeline!

FEATURE

BUDDYPRESS

BUDDYBOSS

Member Profiles

Profile Fields

Account Settings

Notifications

Social Groups

Activity Feeds

Member Connections

Private Messaging

Multisite support

Forum Discussions

Photo Attachments

Photo Albums

Emojis

Animated GIFs

Email Invites (invite users to the network)

Network Search (search all social components)

Profile Repeater fields

Profile Gender fields

Profile Social Network fields

Advanced Profile Search

Profile Types Management

Group Types Management

Group Hierarchies

Self-selection of profile type

Private Network

Custom URL Registration

Custom Profile Name Formats

Grid and List View settings

Forum @mentions

Activity Likes

Activity Follow

Activity Link Previews

Customizable Activity Post Types

Profile Completion widget

Following/Follower widgets

Restrict Messaging to Connections

Intuitive Threaded Messaging Experience

Advanced LearnDash Integrations

Lazy Loading of content

Admin can "View As" any other member

Beautiful email templates with site logo

Default Data

REST API

Event Based, Cached REST API

coming soon

Documention with video tutorials

Github for Open Source

Starter Add-on for developers

Public Product Roadmap

Public list of verified integrations

Dedicated Theme, updated at same time

24/7 support for paying customers

Full time, paid development team

Mobile app solution, built by the same team

Shaping the future of WordPress powered communities

The development of the BuddyBoss Platform is moving aggressively. Our public roadmap lists the major features that are in the pipeline. Thousands of sites are already using the BuddyBoss Platform within months of launching it and our team is committed to making the BuddyBoss Platform, the #1 solution for building online communities on WordPress.  

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