Written by You may have used WordPress for a while and can probably use several plugins to increase the site’s performance. Some plugins can increase your revenue while others help you build an online community. BuddyPress adds many community-building functions. You can create a Facebook-like social network to help improve collaboration among employees.
BuddyPress also allows users to sign up to create profiles. This is a great way to connect with your clients, customers, and clients. This will create excitement about your site and allow you to provide immediate support to customers.
What is BuddyPress?
BuddyPress can be described as a “social networking that fits in a box” and allows you to create any community-based website using WordPress. It features; member profiles, activity streams, messages, user groups, and many others.
You can also use a variety of extensions to enhance your social media network. You can add messages, attachments, documents, document collaboration, walls, and much more. It is easy to integrate, use and expand.
User can create their profile, add messages, join groups, update statuses, and much more. BuddyPress comes with a range of elements that you can integrate directly into your WordPress site. It also integrates with your theme right out of the box. BuddyPress Search plugin is an addon of BuddyPress that provides additional features for member and profile search on your online community website.
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BuddyPress Search Plugin
BuddyPress Search Plugin allows BuddyPress users to search BuddyPress profiles using created fields such as age, name, and all XProfile Fields. You can enable search components for BuddyPress and WordPress user fields, as well as WordPress Post, Pages, and Custom Post Type.
You can also display the global search form with a BuddyPress widget or shortcode.
Key Features
- Allows you to enable the search for selected BuddyPress components
- Allows you to enable the search for WordPress user fields and Xprofile fields.
- Controls Live searching and an option to enable autocomplete.
- Enables the search component for various CPTs like WordPress posts, pages, WooCommerce products, Elementor Pages, LearnDash Courses, etc.
- Widget and shortcode to display the global search form on any post or page.
BuddyPress Search Backend Settings
To configure the backend settings of the plugin, navigate to Dashboard>WB plugins>Buddypress search. Here you will find the settings for the search components.
Search Component Settings
This setting allows you to search the following BuddyPress components.
- Enable Search Components: This will allow you to select the search components including search in BuddyPress activities, BuddyPress groups, members, public groups, private groups, and hidden.
- WordPress User Fields: This setting will allow you to select the user fields.
- Xprofile Fields: This allows you to select the profile fields for search.
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Enable Post/Pages Settings
This setting allows you to search the following WordPress content and custom post types like WordPress posts, pages, WooCommerce products, Elementor Pages, LearnDash Courses, etc.
- Post: This allows you to select the WordPress post, post categories, metadata, and tags.
- Page: This allows you to select the pages for searching
- Product: This allows you to select the products, products tag, and categories.
Live Search Settings
This setting allows you to set live searching on the site.
- Enable Autocomplete: This allows you to enable/disable the autosuggestion
- Number of Results: This allows you to set the no. of results to display on the search form.
Frontend BuddyPress Search Activity Setting
Display The Search Form In The Frontend
To display the BuddyPress search form, navigate to the WordPress widget Tab and add the BuddyPress search widget to the right sidebar. You can also modify the title of the widget.
This widget will now be displayed on your right side.
Live Search Settings
Live search settings provide you with two options:
- Enable Autocomplete: This allows disabling/enabling the auto-suggestion function.
- Number of Results: You can set the number of results. The number of results that will be displayed on the search form.
Autocomplete can be enabled on the backend to suggest auto-suggestions as you type.
Conclusion
BuddyPress Search Plugin allows site members to search BuddyPress profiles using created fields such as age, name, and all Xprofile Fields components. This improves the user experience on your website and allows users to make faster decisions about what they want. This article should have helped you integrate these incredible features into your WordPress site.
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