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BP Group Documents
BP Group Documents creates a page within each BuddyPress group to upload and any type of file or document.
The facts
- Rating
- 5★ from 15
- Active installs
- 600+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 10 Jul 2025
- Added
- Aug 2013
- Requires WP
- 4.6
- Tested up to
- WP 6.7.7
- Downloads
- 64,436
Our analysis
AI-assistedBP Group Documents is a WordPress plugin designed for BuddyPress groups, allowing members to upload and manage various types of files and documents. Each group gets a dedicated page where documents can be uploaded, edited, and deleted by their owners or group administrators.
The plugin includes features for organizing documents into categories, logging activities in user and group streams, and sending email notifications to group members. It also offers user verification for downloads, ensuring that only group members can access files in private or hidden groups.
Best for: This plugin is suitable for BuddyPress group sites that need document management functionality.
What it does well
- ✓Creates a dedicated page for document uploads within BuddyPress groups
- ✓Allows document management by owners and group admins
- ✓Supports categorization of documents
- ✓Logs activities in user and group activity streams
- ✓Includes email notifications for group members
Where it falls short
- •Limited information on additional features or customisation options
Verdict
BP Group Documents offers a straightforward solution for managing files within BuddyPress groups, making it useful for community-driven sites.
From the developer
lenasterg's own description of BP Group Documents, lightly tidied.
BP Group Documents creates a page within each BuddyPress group to upload and any type of file or document. This allows members of BuddyPress groups to upload and store files and documents that are relevant to the group.
Documents can be edited and deleted either by the document owner or by the group administrator.
Categories can be used to organize documents.
Activity is logged in the main activity stream, and is also tied to the user and group activity streams.
The site administrator can set filters on file extensions, set display options.
Group members and moderators can receive email notifications at their option.
The group administrator can decide if all members or only admins/moderators can upload documents (Since v0.5)
User verification for Downloads: when a document is downloaded, a redirect page checks is the user is member of the group (in case of a private or hidden groups) and only then the user can download the file.(Since v0.5)
For private networks, see the FAQ “I have a members only network. How to disable file download for non members?” .
4 Widgets: “User’s groups documents”, “Recent Uploads” , “Popular Downloads”, can be used to show activity at a glance. If the theme support different sidebars for group pages, the BP_Group_Documents_CurrentGroup_Widget can be used to show current group’s documents.
Contributions by Lena Stergatou, with additional bug fixes and improvements by Keeble Smith (http://keeblesmith.com) and Anton Andreasson work for BP 1.7.
Original plugin author was Peter Anselmo.
PLEASE: If you have any issues or it doesn’t work for you, please report in support forum. It doesn’t help anyone to mark “broken” without asking around. Thanks!
Notes
Roadmap.txt – contains ideas proposed and the (approximate) order of implementation
History.txt – contains all the changes since version .1
License.txt – contains the licensing details for this component.
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