BuddyPress is a powerful platform that allows you to build a WordPress powered community. It features profiles, groups, private messaging, friendship connections, and a fantastic notification system.
Converting a regular WordPress theme into a BuddyPress ready theme involves modifying templates. That is why many people purchase BuddyPress themes that have been designed specifically for the platform.
In this article, I would like to show you twenty of the best BuddyPress WordPress themes for 2014.
1. Reign
Developed by Wbcom Designs, Reign is a responsive BuddyPress & bbPress WordPress theme that features a one-click demo system, multiple header options, and many member and group directory layouts.
In the options area you will find a ton of styling options and BuddyPress settings. Four BuddyPress widgets are also included with the design.
2. Boss
A responsive theme for WordPress and BuddyPress. Boss is a feature packed solution that offers flexible layouts and a powerful admin control panel.
It has full support for many popular WordPress plugins and BuddyPress plugins such as bbPress, Gravity Forms, and WooCommerce. Boss supports multiple languages and works with right-to-left languages.
3. Klein
Klein is an innovative WordPress theme built to support BuddyPress, bbPress, and WooCommerce out of the box. Perfect for a website that interacts with a lot of users. Now your members can create profiles, send messages, add connections, or share what’s happening in their life. Collaborate through forums or sell any products you require.
4. Flix
Flix is a community and power blogging theme for WordPress. With BuddyPress support included into the the theme you can start your own community in no time. But BuddyPress and bbPress are only two of many superb features of this theme. With our SmartTab system, you can put your authors in the spotlight.
5. Sweet Date
Sweet Date is a unique, clean and modern Premium Wordpress theme. It is perfect for a dating or community website but can be used as well for any other domain. We added all the things you need to create a perfect community system. Although at first we designed it to be used as a dating theme for Wordpress, Sweetdate can be customized to match any business domain.
6. Bounce
Bounce is a powerful, professional and fully responsive WordPress & BuddyPress theme. If you want to impress your visitors with a good looking theme then look no further.
7. ReviewIt
ReviewIt is a WordPress and BuddyPress theme that provides you with powerful review and community features.
8. KLEO
Extremely flexible, KLEO is a fully customizable Wordpress Multi-Purpose theme to fit your demanding needs.
9. Connect
Connect is clean, solid and easy to use community theme for WordPress, BuddyPress & bbPress. You will be up and running within minutes and you choose between several different color and layout options to fit your requirements. BuddyPress is a plugin that adds powerful community features to WordPress such as groups, profiles, discussions, friends, private messages and many more.
10. SuperMassive
SuperMassive is a powerful professional WordPress and BuddyPress theme. The aim from the beginning was to create a great looking theme that would allow you to make your own unique and abstract layouts in minutes. SuperMassive achieves this by incorporating a ton of easy to use shortcodes. It also comes with excellent support for audio and video files. SuperMassive really does live up to its name!
11. Opinions
Opinions is a versatile community theme that has all the bells-and-whistles needed to set up a BuddyPress website.
12. WPLMS
WPLMS is a powerful theme with lot of flexible and usable features. It comes with custom plugins specifically designed for this theme to work as a powerful Learning management system. Built with HTML5 and CSS3, WPLMS has many unique features.
13. Xphoria
Xphoria is a theme integrated with BuddyPress & bbPress which lets users register on your site and start creating profiles, posting messages, making connections, creating and interacting in groups and much more. A social network in a box, build a social network for your company, school, sports team or niche community.
14. Buddy
Buddy is a clean, modern and fully responsive WordPress and BuddyPress theme that can be used for any type of website, whether it be business, corporate, community, magazine, portfolio, etc. And if you want to get to know Buddy a little better, the theme comes with detailed documentation and top-notch free support.
15. Social Buddy
Social Buddy is a responsive community WordPress theme that integrates with BuddyPress & BBPress and is perfect for niche communities and social networks.
16. Cinematix
Cinematix theme is integrated with BuddyPress & bbPress which lets users register on your site and start creating profiles, posting messages, making connections, creating and interacting in groups and much more. A social network in a box, build a social network for your company, school, sports team or niche community.
17. Engage
Engage is a community based theme built on WordPress, BuddyPress, and bbPress that lets you signup visitors on your site. Members can then build their profiles, send messages, friend other people, interact in groups, post in the forum, share interests, and much more.
18. Squared
Squared is an incredibly powerful, super flexible and ultra responsive WordPress theme. Squared was built just for you, this is the one that you’re looking for, a theme to help you achieve a unique look & feel, while having the right tools to leverage so much power.
19. OneCommunity
OneCommunity theme is integrated with a BuddyPress plugin which lets users register on your site and start creating profiles, posting messages, making connections, creating and interacting in groups and much more. A social network in a box, build a social network for your company, school, sports team or niche community.
20. Salutation
Salutation is a WordPress and BuddyPress theme. If you’re not familiar with BuddyPress, it’s a social network plugin for WordPress allowing your website to become a fully functional community portal. BuddyPress lets your users interract through groups, forums, friends, status updates, private messaging and a lot more.
21. WildCommunity
WildCommunity theme is integrated with a BuddyPress plugin which lets users register on your site and start creating profiles, posting messages, making connections, creating and interacting in groups and much more. A social network in a box, BuddyPress lets you build a social network for your company, school, sports team or niche community.
22. DynamiX
DynamiX is one of the most powerful responsive business Wordpress themes around today. Whether you require a Ecommerce, Business, Woocommerce multilingual shop, Buddypress, bbpress, Corporate, Professional, Clean, Blog, Church, Fitness, Restaurant, Wedding or School site – DynamiX will suit your purpose.
I hope you enjoyed the list. If you know of any other great BuddyPress themes, please feel free to share them below in the comment area.
Thanks,
Kevin