BP Classic
BP Classic, a BuddyPress (12.0.0 & up) backwards compatibility add-on
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·6.0K+ active installs·Updated 1 year agoAs of April 2026, BP Classic is a WordPress backcompat plugin with 6.0K+ active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 68K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.8+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2023. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Download volume is stable this week.
0/5Rating
6.0K+active installs
68K+total downloads
3 yearssince 2023
Overview
The BP Classic add-on is being developed and maintained by the official BuddyPress development team.
It was first built to provide backwards compatibility to configs where third party BuddyPress plugin(s) or theme(s) – not ready yet for the BP Rewrites API (introduced in BuddyPress 12.0.0) – are activated.
BP Classic also includes features and templates that are fully deprecated in BuddyPress 12.0.0. Here are the ones you will now find back only once you activated the BP Classic add-on:
- The BP Legacy widgets (these were migrated as Blocks in BuddyPress 9.0.0).
- The BP Default theme.
- The BP Legacy navigation globals (
buddypress()->bp_nav&buddypress()->bp_options_nav).
NB: although the BP Classic add-on only runs when the BuddyPress version is 12.0.0 or up, you can…
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Download Trends
Today: 90Yesterday: 90This week: 793Period total: 20K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.8+ requiredTested up to 6.6.5 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
| Dependencies | buddypress |
Version Adoption
v1.4
97.2%
Other
2.8%
Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.4.0
- Make sure bbPress topics/replies pagination is behaving as expected with BuddyPress 12.0 & up (See #44).
Contributors
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