BuddyPress 2016 Survey Results

What are the top 3 client/member feature requests for your BuddyPress sites?

Activity

• Spam protection in activity
• Better link previews at activty stream
• Better social stream (more like Facebook), with integrated media capability.
• Block users and report spam option from the activity stream.This should be built into the core.
• Site-wide buttons for member activity like Favorite
• Activity wall
• Better control on Activity, which activity type need to display or not
• More settings for activities
• Activity
• Activity likes/share
• Add something like a badge to a profile to let other users know how active another user is. This "activity-rate" of a user should be calculated by the response time to messages, the fact if a profile photo was uploaded and how often a user is logged into the system.
• Auto embedding links preview in activity updates.
• Comments to be displayed more like Facebook
• Some users are confused about activity levels such as site-wide, group and personal.
• Custom activity page
• More control over activity item visibility.
• Improved activty stream that can be perform ok on a frontpage of the site.
• Ability to pull RSS feeds into activity stream
• Completely improve the activity feed or get rid of it
• Wall style Facebook with url parser
• Share Posts Feature(as Facebook Share button )
• Save Activity Stream Posts
• Share posts from other's activity lines to their own
• Sharing option
• Slack type emoji features
• Customized recent activity widget

Apps

• Mobile app possibilities and http push notifications for chrome and safari
• Android and Iphone app
• Mobile App Integration / Not webview
• Apps

bbPress Forums

• Activity stream to reflect when users have made bbPress forum activity, not just when made changes to their profiles.
• Better integration with and less overlap with bbPress
• Group forum separation from site-wide forums
• bbPress Email notification to the members of the group when new forum posts are made, when replies are made (and have it triggered as a daily/weekly digest, running reliably and not dependent on firing only when there's page views that day)

Blogs

• User blogs. Display users blog posts on profile.
• Ability to edit WP comments in the same way as group topics/replies

Chat

• Group Chats - Not Private Messaging
• Live Chat
• Chat

Core

• Better way to handle usernames and displayed names
• Easier to use
• Simple set up. Simple set up. Successful set up.
• More social features
• Real time updates
• Smileys in activity and messages.
• Spam control
• Content moderation
• BuddyPress check-in functionality
• Likes (not Favorites)
• Hashtag support
• More options
• Better content moderation
• Ability to change @name.
• Require fewer plugins to create a complete solution
• BuddyPress invite anyone
• Easy integration with other membership plugins.
• Integration with existing social networks
• Like / Dislike & Sharing posts within your own site (not share on facebook twitter).
• Business pages.
• URL rewrite support
• Document Sharing Integration
• Drag and Drop
• To-do list
• Configurable
• Security
• Report Abuse Feature
• Better invite system
• Referral system
• Speed!
• Task- and project management
• Page title and meta description for BP pages
• Multisite support, like one BP per site. I know it's possible using a plugin from WP.org, yet it's pretty tough to set it up correctly.
• Gamification
• Better search
• Unified search
• BIGGEST requests come down to better search for members. More advanced search, search by geo (we can store lat/long ourselves but it would be nice for BP to support "search by closest").

Core - Media

• Images and files in profile fields and in activity publishing
• Images and videos in the activity stream
• Plugin BuddyPress Media (rtmedia) and BuddyPress Activity Plus features should be available into BuddyPress by default.
• To be able to customize or at least crop the cover Image.
• Crop-resize feature for cover images
• Native media (images, videos) support
• Media aka on Facebook (upload, share, comment etc)
• Better members' pictures & albums
• Galleries
• Image upload and user galleries
• Media handling like file archives in groups
• Media uploads/albums
• Media
• Pictures
• Picture gallery for members
• Videos that work (will play / view-able) with iphone / ipad (even after buying premium ffmpeg converter from rtmedia they still fail with ios - meh)
• Cropping for Cover and Group header images.

Core - Navigation

• Need some easy options to add new tabs or subtab inside profile or groups
• Easier navigation
• Better directory navigation
• Better feature integration such as menus.
• Navigation control
• They want it easy for their users to navigate site

Core - Privacy

• More flexible privacy settings.
• Privacy
• Privacy settings
• Private site
• Options for private sites
• Content Privacy

Core - Registration

• Closer ties to major social networks (specifically facebook and twitter) to include log-in and cross-post.
• Ability of step registration. Like the first screen will just ask email, username and password. The user will be registered with that Information. Then the user is taken to another step where additional fields are displayed. This feature should be added to core in my opinion.
• Social login
• Custom registration
• Option to restrict content without restricting the registration page.
• Registration/Enrollment compatibility/easability
• Social Login
• To improve registration process
• Registration process is confusing because it's different than the WP one and themes often use their own page as well.

E-commerce

• BuddyPress shops.. let users have their own shop and able to submit products and manage orders on their profile (frontend) using woocommerce.
• Better integration with WooCommerce and *one, single, official * set-up for end-to-end user / account management across WC / BuddyP / BPress. E.g. integrate WC and Wordpress accounts with BuddyPress profiles in one closer view, together with BBPress user settings.
• E-commerce.
• User shops
• Different group/levels/permissions with woocommerce subscription payments

Emails

• Digest emails telling users what's happened since they last logged in.
• Better & Same Email Templates (For all WP & BP mails).
• Reply by email

Events

• Integration with an events plugin
• Event calendar
• Group calendar

Extended Profiles

• Profile fields displayed on members directory
• Repeater fields for xprofiles (e.g., under an "Education" field group to have an option for "Add another school")
• Fieldsets for xprofiles groups (i.e., perhaps deeper hierarchy, e.g., keeping with the "Education" field group example, coordinating all fields related to one school in a single Fieldsets [name, degree program, concentration, graduation year, etc.])
• Finer control over who can see a particular piece of profile info (e.g., corresponding to site roles or permissions and not just "Everyone", "Members", "Only Me", or "Only Friends", for instance making student records viewable by school administrators who, incidentally, are not website admins)
• Add profile badge (verified icon) in profile name, or after profile username to highlight admin
• Showing more profile fields on members listing pages
• Filtering fields shown of a member on a member listing page related to the member viewing the page
• Profile feature
• Better members profiles
• Better personal profiles.
• Better user profiles with easier usability.
• Custom profile page
• Easier sync between WP, BP and bbPress profiles. Both easier to understand and harness.
• Member customisable profile pages - users want to create a profile page that others see features that they have chosen.
• Nicer user profiles
• All backend profile settings added to frontend
• Better, cleaner profile headers.
• Member profile modifications.
• More flexible profiles
• Profile layout
• Profile options
• To improve profiles
• Unify the WP user profile and BP user profile.

Friends

• Friends only sidewide activity page show up for logged in users or something like that to encourage users to make friends
• Friends suggestions.
• Ability to add and follow friend from the activity stream with AJAX.
• Share content with friends
• Friend connexion

Groups

• @group mentions
• More settings groups
• More control over group visibility/status.
• Group Messages
• Groups (4x)
• Filesharing for Groups
• Private blogging area for groups
• Custom styling for groups.
• More flexible groups
• Shortcode in groups
• Having group types with set features at creation. This is so site members can make groups quicker.
• More group extension pluginsSubgroups seem to working again or are on the way there
• Subgroups seem to working again or are on the way there

Members

• Validating members (by admin) and private profiles and members directory (visibility only to validated members)
• ACL: Access Level for User, like who can view some BP tabs or not depending upon user role.
• Add member level/point to engage users
• Add membership feature, so user can purcahse subscription via paypal, bitcoin, or bank account for payment
• Membership types.
• More settings for members
• Rate user by other users
• Granular User Permission System just like what's available with XenForo, WoltLab, IPB and vBulletin.
• Superadmin permissions/access for admins/editors
• Inclusion/exclusions on members lists
• Membership integration with the register process. Instead of adding separately.
• Option to report users or bad content
• Who has viewed your profile
• Auto connection to everyone option
• User reactions (Like, favourite...) for bp activities, wp posts and bbpress

Notifications

• Notifications should be marked as clicked as soon as i click them, not when I visit the respective page. (ajax)
• Configuration of email notifications. (deactivate notification if I get a new private message)
• Real time notifications
• Adding custom notifications.
• Push notifications

Private Messages

• Instant Messaging
• Detailed private message settings to proctect from spam
• Easy, understandable member-to-member spam control. Preferably a way of muting another member so that he's prevented from sending PMs and replies to one's posts. The existing "report as spammer" is widely misunderstood, both on the user side and the moderator side.
• A better messaging system.
• Reverse order of private messages
• Better messaging system

Templates

• AJAX everything. Seriously, AJAX everything. =)
• Ajaxed results in various templates
• Ajax
• Easy Template loading
• Better themes, better out of the box integrations, new features
• Better mobile experience
• More mobile friendly
• Better mobile optimizations
• Mobile accessible
• Responsive

UI/UX

• Design, design, design
• Simpler UI (One click to profile)
• Improved UX
• Good UX

What are the top 3 developer/builder features you want in BuddyPress?

Activity

• Ability to hide the activity stream for non-logged in users
• Add smiley/emoticons/emoji button option in textarea for update status
• Better control on Activity, which activity type need to display or not, and we can also set activity default.
• Better unity between posts / custom post types and the activity feed
• I really have only one I can think of, for me, add the possibility to add as many activity items on the stream, I mean, to be able to add your own hooks like a new activity item would be to record a new user registration ( User has just registered to our website ).
• Options to choose between Activity stream or confession or shout out. Activity stream are too main stream.
• Save Activity Stream Posts
• Friends only sidewide activity page show up for logged in users or something like that to encourage users to make friends.

bbPress

• A way to export posts from bp groups to bbPress forums.
• Better forum moderation and response
• Improved synergy between BP and bbP (mentions, commenting via activity stream, etc) and BP and individual blogs if in multisite (including commenting from activity stream)
• Integrate forum topic in activity group.

Blogs

• Deeper integration with WP blog
• Members control of visibility of pages and posts
• User blogs. Display users blog posts on profile.

BP REST API

• REST API endpoints!!
• BP API
• BP REST API.
• REST API
• REST API

Chat

• Real-time Chat features with enhancing message section
• Chat Feature!!

Core

• More consistent experience extending groups vs members
• i agree with the often-repeated assertion that web apps using front-end javascript frameworks (ember, angular 2) are setting the standard that users now expect. transforming BuddyPress into a modern web app would be much more than a feature, but i'm convinced that that apps are the way of the next 5+ years.
• Add and improve social features to keep members active. Private messages, friends, search, media upload tools to edit.
• Be more intranet oriented
• Better API to manage components as it could be a core feature to BuddyPress and plugins or theme
• Better capability model - don't use is_super_admin or is_logged_in
• Better support for BP Pages, e.g. Sidebars for BP Pages.
• Better syntax for loops and queries
• Blogging options - eg. My blogs, create new with a decent front end post feature
• Clearer coupling for progressive enhancements, inline documentation at minimum.
• Continued filters/hooks where possible.
• Definitely more structural stability over time - during my time several fundamental features had become obsolete, with costly rewrites - legacy forums (still use them), theme compatibility (still use the old thme api), friend connections, email templates, and IIRC also the navbar. This adds a lot to a cost of ownership for a custom BP site (especially if one needs to pay for his programming services!) and frankly, was never the case with WP which enjoyed a rather smooth evolution over the years.
• Easy re-write rules
• Encryting password from Admin View
• Facilitate integration with other plugin as agenda (ex.: eventOne)
• Fine-grained permissions
• Finer form validation conrols
• Full compatibility with WPML (or other multilinguism plugin)
• Granular User Permission System just like what's available with XenForo, WoltLab, IPB and vBulletin.
• Gravatar and profile photos is confusing
• Hooks
• BImprove naming consistency of the identifiers
• Meta based ordering for components that support meta_query
• More BuddyPress management options
• More compatibility with standard WordPress plugins, more hooks, more filters.
• More hooks, more filters, less html in templates
• More multi-network options
• More real time stuff, communities are all about interactions. We're trying to roll those things out as plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=eonet but in my opinion, some could be core features.
• No client request, but my own wish list: PHP7 compatibility across BuddyPress, BBPress, and all the plugins that I use (I know, very difficult), a lot of stuff is still reliant on 5.6, slowing down my site.
• Optimize memory usage
• Page title and meta description for BP pages - select-able and changeable like how wp does permalinks perhaps.
• Pagination for components, (current state is not developer friendly)
• PHP 5.4+
• Please stop adding 'features' in areas that should be handled by plugins. Instead, more focus on core improvements and efficiency - these are the items we look for in the changelog for new releases.
• Share Posts Feature(as Facebook Share button )
• Speed
• Support real inheritance in both PHP and JS. make JS scope accessible for ajax/promises/etc. use ORM.
• Tighter integration of new features with key plugins
• Utilize WP custom post type
• Varnish cache support
• Event calendar
• Gamified
• Report Abuse Feature
• More widgets that are easy to plugin on the site, e.g. a nice activity widget.

Core - Media

• A core member media manager
• Add image/link/video/audio button in textarea for update status and display the preview before posting it
• BP media functionality as part of core bp - bonus if it works to import / export to and from rtmedia and the other one that is being developed.
• Image upload and user galleries
• Media without RT Media
• Member management (registrations options), BuddyDrive as a core features (no that imath is no longer member of the core team), eventually some kind of (group) chat
• Pictures (native)
• Select in parameter to disable profile image crop and do like like Facebook mobile.
• Upload structure is not good for large scale (avatar/cover-images)

Core - Navigation

• Be able to combine / adjust BP menus. ie: Moving Account Settings and Email Settings together
• Profile menu
• Real and complete BP nav functions (ability to change a subnav parent, not having to use $bp... )

Core - Registration

• Ability to customize login and registration pages
• Add social login like: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Google
• Direct activation
• Improve registration process
• Remove name and user name from wp + bp integration registration page...it confuses new users who in many cases never come back...they simply forget or get confused by what is "name" and "user name" during registration.
• Sign up page customizable with less fields, only email and password should been requested. Realname can be optional and username could be set up later.
• More control over registration template, it's very over whelming and hard to customise.

Documentation

• A list of code chunks that are official answers and currently work inside the forums area.. like showing sites that mod bp and how they do it.. so much old code in the forums...
• And not feature but Important thing updated Documentation.
• Better documentation
• Better documentation, less digging in code
• Detailed API documentations needed for the developers.
• Docs, docs, and more docs.
• Documentation
• Documentation and function reference
• Documentation of hooks
• I would like to see a better codex of action hooks, filters, and developer resources for when I am trying to tap into and customize BP information
• Improved documentation
• More documentation and tutorials for customizing BP
• Sketchy developer documentation for these new features in BP aggravates the problem.
• Solid documentation with all functions, actions and hooks
• Some basic tutorials on common things that are customized
• Theme plugins hooks/filters

E-commerce

• BuddyPress shops.. let users have their own shop and able to submit products and manage orders on their profile (frontend) using woocommerce
• E-commerce.
• User shops

Emails

• BP emails for all WP emails to create consistency (password recovery emails for example)
• Extend BuddyPress Group Email Subscription functionality to include site activity and friend activity email options.
• Provide a proper way to handle emails.

Extended Profiles

• Profile area drag-down editor
• x-profile fields from database are a nightmare
• All backend profile settings added to frontend
• Better built in user profile features and user interface.
• Fieldsets for xprofiles (plus repeaters)
• I would like to see more "types" in BuddyPress profiles. Maybe make it easier to pre-populate dropdowns (like select a country dropdowns). I know it's possible via filter, but maybe some common ones. Gravity Forms handles this well. And maybe more features dealing with user's media. I know that is vague. Curse me.
• Improve profiles
• Make Xprofile searches scalable for complex search.
• Repeater fields for xprofiles
• There should be an optional parameter to pass xprofile_group_id while setting or getting data. I have to use xprofile_field_id to set or get data because field names in different groups are same.
• Use of profile fields in members directory, user admin, and in searching members
• xProfile +

Groups

• Better group homepage solutions
• Better Groups
• Custom Group Type (exactly like a custom post type for WordPress)
• Customize Group Home
• Group blogs
• Improve Group Types
• Better Group Types
• More detailed user profile for companies
• Remove hardcoded group statuses. (I'm working on it, OK? :) )

Members

• Better role management. Specific BP user capability hooks to manage custom privledges.
• Build easier access to user account
• Connections
• Do not overwrite user role to default on activation if already provided. (bp-membersp-members-functions.php : bp_core_activate_signup : $member->set_role( get_option('default_role') );)
• Improve Member Types
• Globally available userdata. Like an up-coming CV/Resume of the user
• Better Member Types

Notifications

• Better notifications API
• Adjust user and email notifications
• Better Notifications API, something like Laravel has.
• Like notification.
• Notification could be better (https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/10/03/feature-project-proposal-notifications-api/) I think we need to wait this :)
• Notifications of groups activities working with your add-on with learndash LMS
• Push notifications
• There is no option to get both read and unread notifications in bp_has_notifications.

Private Messages

• Better messages API
• Significant improvements to messaging

Templates

• Mobile optimization
• A few options for activity post box layout
• A theme editor.
• Better mobile responsive adaptation
• Better out of the box theme and feature integration, better development team or more aggressive development plan, get it up to date to modern requirements - it's old and doesn't change.
• Less reliance on plugin bundled templates
• More beautiful template layout
• Templates outdated feature like in WooCommerce

UI/UX

• Improved User Interface

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