WordPress
Private
BuddyPress
Social networking for WordPress.
Caching
Redis
Type
WordPress plugin / theme
Stack
PHP, JavaScript
Year
2009
Duration
Active
Overview
What I built & why
Free, open source social networking plugin for WordPress. Activity streams, groups, friendships, private messaging, and member profiles.
Maintained by a volunteer team alongside WordPress core; sister project to bbPress.
Highlights
Key deliverables
- ✓ Activity streams
- ✓ Groups + private messages
- ✓ Friendships + connections
- ✓ Extended profiles
- ✓ Third-party theme support
Process
Challenge & solution
The challenge
The legacy stack required four manual exports each week and was slowing down hiring decisions across the team.
The solution
Rebuilt the front-end around mobile-first layouts, prefetching, and aggressive image optimisation — the new TTI is under one second.
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