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How Do Shortcodes Enhance The Functionality and Display of BuddyPress Components?

How Do Shortcodes Enhance The Functionality and Display of BuddyPress Components?

BuddyPress’s default templates put activity streams, member directories, and group listings on their own dedicated pages. If you want any of that content embedded somewhere else, a homepage, a landing page, a custom template, you need shortcodes or widgets, not a template override.

Shortcode for BuddyPress Pro adds exactly that: three shortcodes, plus matching Elementor widgets for anyone who’d rather not type shortcode syntax by hand.

The Three Shortcodes

Activity Stream: [bp_activity]

BuddyPress activity stream shortcode

Drops the latest community updates and interactions onto any page or post, useful for a homepage that wants to show live activity without sending visitors to the dedicated activity page.

Members Directory: [bp_members]

BuddyPress members directory shortcode

Embeds a member directory anywhere, a landing page showcasing community size, for instance, without linking off to the full members page.

Group Listings: [bp_groups]

BuddyPress group listings shortcode

Same idea, for group listings, drop the community’s groups into any page.

Elementor Widgets

The current version (v2.2.0) ships three native Elementor widgets matching the shortcodes above: Members List, Activity List, and Groups List. Elementor users get the same functionality through the visual panel instead of typing shortcode syntax.

Pricing

Personal (1 site) $49/year, Professional (5 sites) $99/year, Agency (unlimited sites) $129/year. See the product page for current terms.

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1 min · 198 words
Published
May 22, 2023
Shashank Dubey
BuddyX contributor

Writing about WordPress communities, BuddyPress, BuddyBoss, LMS plugins, and the business of paid communities.

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