{"id":2276,"date":"2026-10-20T08:29:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/buddypress-or-userswp\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T08:52:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:52:26","slug":"buddypress-or-userswp","status":"publish","type":"gd_place","link":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/buddypress-integration\/buddypress-or-userswp\/","title":{"rendered":"BuddyPress or UsersWP: which should I use with GeoDirectory?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both plugins give your users profiles and work with GeoDirectory, but you should pick one. Each adds its own registration, login, account and profile pages, so running both gives your users two sets of profiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">UsersWP<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UsersWP is our own plugin. It adds front-end registration, login and account forms, user profiles and a members directory, all designed with the same UI as GeoDirectory. You can add custom fields to the registration form and the profile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Extra features come as add-ons. The GeoDirectory extension adds the user&#8217;s listings, reviews and favorites to their profile, and there are add-ons for friends, followers, private messaging, social login and groups. See <a href=\"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/article\/groups\/groups-extension-setup-guide\/\">Groups extension setup guide<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/article\/geodirectory-extension\/adding-geodirectory-listings-to-the-profile-of-your-users\/\">Adding GeoDirectory listings to the profile of your users<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">BuddyPress<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BuddyPress is a full social network plugin with activity streams, groups, friends and messages. Our BuddyPress Integration add-on adds GeoDirectory listings, reviews and favorites to BuddyPress profiles. See the <a href=\"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/buddypress-integration\/buddypress-integration-setup-guide\/\">BuddyPress Integration setup guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Which to choose<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If your site is a directory first and you want profiles, accounts and some social features, UsersWP is lighter and is built to match GeoDirectory. If you want a community site with activity feeds at its centre, use BuddyPress with the integration add-on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both plugins give your users profiles and work with GeoDirectory, but you should pick one. Each adds its own registration, login, account and profile pages, so running both gives your users two sets of profiles. UsersWP UsersWP is our own plugin. It adds front-end registration, login and account forms, user profiles and a members directory, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"article\/tags":[],"article\/categories":[213,404],"class_list":["post-2276","gd_place","type-gd_place","status-publish","hentry","gd_placecategory-extensions-features","gd_placecategory-buddypress-integration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/2276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/gd_place"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/2276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2287,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/2276\/revisions\/2287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"gd_place_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/tags?post=2276"},{"taxonomy":"gd_placecategory","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/categories?post=2276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}