The idea of organizing an online platform to bring people with common interests together in order to subsequently get good traffic and implement a paid subscription system attracts many. To achieve this goal, a social network built on a WordPress template compatible with BuddyPress and bbPress plugins will be suitable in a short time. They provide the full functionality of the social network: creating profiles, messaging, adding to friends, chatting on the forum, working together on files and other options.
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10 social networking WordPress templates + BuddyPress
1. Sweet Date
Template for social networks, offering 2 demos for a dating site and 1 for a travel search site. A site on Sweet Date can use a paid subscription system and access control to content. The fully responsive theme design ensures that by opening the site on any device, the visitor gets the same user experience.
2. Thrive
Template for intranet and online communities. It is a universal platform that combines the functionality of a social network, forum, messaging systems, organizing events, project management and file sharing, e-commerce, and e-learning (when purchasing the Learndash plugin).
3. Buddy
The theme, developed for Buddypress and bbPress, helps create a social network with a modern design. Buddy uses responsive Retina Ready layout and Font Awesome icon font library. The template makes it easy to add widgets to the site, such as: “New / popular / active users”, “New / popular groups”, “Calendar”, “Recent forum topics”, “Statistics”, “Online users”.
4. Socialize
The template makes the most of Buddypress’s capabilities, making it a good foundation for a community or social network. Socialize completely redesigned bbPress, outwardly bringing it closer to the classic forum style. So that the webmaster can achieve the desired type of content display, the template includes 4 layout options for the main page, 9 for categories, 6 for posts.
5. Klein
An innovative theme designed to work with BuddyPress and bbPress, done with particular attention to detail. Suitable for those who need an online community or social network powered by WordPress. Ideal for sites with a large number of registered users. By connecting to the WooCommerce theme, you can sell products to community members.
6. KLEO
KLEO has earned the title of best-selling BuddyPress theme this year because it truly lives up to expectations. The template offers a simple, modern design with sophisticated background elements. The theme uses the built-in search, which is not included in any other template and allows you to avoid installing special plugins, which favorably affects the speed of the site.
7. Monstroid2
A universal template, a follower of the legendary Monstroid theme, completely rewritten from scratch. Thanks to its compatibility with the BuddyPress plugin, the template allows webmasters to make a website a social network or a thematic online community. The template provides 7 custom styles for the header, there is support for mega menus. The buyer can use the pictures from the demo on his website.
8. Woffice
The first popular WordPress theme for intranet/extranet communities. Woffice can be easily adapted for corporate and government intranet/extranet networks, regular Internet communities and social networks, a school or other private social networks.
9. BuddyApp
Mobile First template for websites of private and public social networks, the ideal solution for those who are wondering how to make a social network that stands out from others. As a bonus to BuddyApp comes a landing page, developed using the new features of HTML5.
10. Gwangi
A great WordPress template for a dating site: it is possible to add photos to the gallery, mark the users you like. Convenient UX for admin and visitor, intuitive controls. Advanced search through an extensive list of options. Developers guarantee timely support, regular updates of all plugins included in the package.
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