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BuddyPress Docs

Adds collaborative Docs to BuddyPress.

By Boone Gorges·Docs·Free
4.4(35 reviews)
·7.0K+ active installs·Updated 2 weeks ago
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As of April 2026, BuddyPress Docs is a WordPress docs plugin with 7.0K+ active installations and a 4.4/5 rating from 35 reviews. It has been downloaded 323K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.3+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are down 27% this week. Support resolution rate: 0%. Top alternative: BetterDocs – Knowledge Base Docs & FAQ….

4.4/535 reviews
7.0K+active installs
0%resolved
15 yearssince 2011

Overview

BuddyPress Docs adds collaborative work spaces to your BuddyPress community. Part wiki, part document editing, part shared dropbox, think of these Docs as a BuddyPress version of the Docs service offered by the Big G ifyouknowwhatimean

Features include:

  • Docs that can be linked to groups or users, with a variety of privacy levels
  • Support for fully-private document uploads
  • Doc taxonomy, using tags
  • Fully sortable and filterable doc lists
  • TinyMCE front-end doc editing
  • One-editor-at-a-time prevention against overwrites, plus idle detection/autosave
  • Full access to revision history
  • Dashboard access and management of Docs for the site admin

This plugin is in active development. For feature requests and bug reports, visit http://github.com/boonebgorges/buddypress-docs. If you have translated the…

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Ratings & Reviews

4.435 reviews
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Recent Reviews

Great ! Except for incompatibilities
by Georges CALVO·8 months ago·2 replies

First of all, thank you very much for this plugin. It allows users to upload PDF documents and share them among members. This is exactly what we were looking to include in our association.

Thanks

  • This topic was modified 8 months, 1 week ago by Georges CALVO.
Thank you
by WPabmm·8 months ago

This is a great addition to BuddyPress and works well offering an invaluable collaboration tool! It is easy to style it accordingly with CSS as the selectors are easily found on github. Thank you for developing it and maintaining it all these years 🙂

Excellent, fast and simple
by saulruiz21·1 year ago

This plugin adds an excellent tool to upload collaborative documentos to certain group, you can add title, description, additional info, folders, role editor, etc.

Exactly what I needed
by alfy40·3 years ago

This is really perfect. I customized minor things in CSS, but otherwise it just works perfectly out-of-the-box. It’s lightweight and yet very effective.

If you need collaborative documents functionality in a BuddyBoss environment this does the job perfectly. I use it in a community where people share attachments mostly: I have folders and then one Doc per category of attachment; people can add attachments, edit the description, etc. The access control is also granular.

It was useful to find the author’s code snippets on github for customizations (such as global folders).

Fantastic plugins
by wplike75·4 years ago

Hello,
thank you very much for this great collaborative documents plugins, it work perfecly.
Best regards.

Download Trends

Today: 63Yesterday: 68This week: 398Period total: 17K

Compatibility

WordPress3.3+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4
PHPfalse+ required

Version Adoption

v2.2
86.8%
v2.1
11.8%
Other
1.5%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

2.2.7

  • Fixed regression in 2.2.5 that resulted in Doc editing permissions being incorrect for certain new Docs.
  • Prevent PHP notices when determining block template for Docs content.
  • Fixed bug that caused protected Docs to appear in certain search results
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

David CavinsDavid CavinsBoone GorgesBoone GorgesCUNY Academic CommonsCUNY Academic Commons
Plugin Info
Version
2.2.7
Last Updated
Mar 19, 2026
WP Requires
3.3+
Tested Up To
6.9.4
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
7.0K+
Downloads
323K+
Added
Mar 2, 2011
Business
Free

Tags

docswikidocumentsbuddypresscollaboration

Developer

B
Boone Gorges
28 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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