Welcome to BuddyDress

Our themes show off your site’s content - and do it well. We look for inspiration all around us - introducing personality for a dramatic effect that will bring your content to life.

Founded on the idea that your site should be exceptional in style and quality, we draw on classic design techniques to present a beautiful and unique collection of themes at an excellent value.

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Friday Find: 3.0 1.2.4.. we wait for numbers

Here we go with another Friday Find here at BuddyDress. This week’s been relatively quiet on the news front with the wait still going on for the release client of WordPress 3.0 and BuddyPress 1.2.4.  WordCamp San Fran gets under way this week so that will see a huge bug push as outlined in this [...]

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Custom header tutorial: Adding an image and changing the size

Many themes have the in-built ability to upload your own custom header. In this tutorial we are going to go through how to add your own, customise the header to make it taller and change your text colour. For this tutorial we are using the Default BuddyPress 1.2 theme. Tutorial video: You can download or [...]

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Friday Find: Expand buddypress with a little DIY

Another week has passed at Buddydress and we’re really pleased to welcome some new members. We hope you are enjoying the themes we offer and would like to get to know you over in the forums – we’d love to see what you’re doing with our themes in our show and tell section. Make BuddyPress [...]

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Add a widget anywhere in 3 simple steps

Widget areas are not just for sidebars you may want to place them anywhere on your theme.  This tutorial is going to easily show you in 3 simple steps how to add a widget area to anywhere.  For illustration purposes I’m going to use the default BuddyPress 1.2 theme. We have both a video for [...]

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Get out of Ning using WPMU DEV’s Plugin

By now most if not all are aware of Ning’s decision to close all free hosting.  This is quite the move and leaves many out in the cold.  There really seems to never have been a better reason than to go with BuddyPress.  Sarah over at wpmu.org writes a great article ‘Fed Up with Ning [...]

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