Title: BuddyPress Featured Members
Author: BuddyDev
Published: <strong>January 6, 2017</strong>
Last modified: June 16, 2025

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# BuddyPress Featured Members

 By [BuddyDev](https://profiles.wordpress.org/buddydev/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bp-featured-members.1.1.5.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-featured-members/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-featured-members/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-featured-members/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-featured-members/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bp-featured-members/)

## Description

BuddyPress Featured Members plugin allows creating/displaying list of featured members
a pleasurable experience.
 It is highly flexible in the way the lists are displayed(
slider, list, theme default, or custom). It also provides a simple API for marking/
unmarking users as featured member.

Features:-

 * Multiple users can be marked as featured
 * Featured Members can be displayed using shortcode or widget
 * Featured Members Can be displayed in the directory too
 * You can use multiple widget/shortcodes
 * Each shortcode/widget can be displayed as a list or a slider of users.
 * A default theme view for members list is also supported, It lists the members
   using members-loop.php from your theme
 * Easy API for marking a user as featured/removing user from the list of featured
   members.
    For documentation, Please see the [plugin page](https://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-featured-members/).

**For Support**, Please use [BuddyDev Support Forums](https://buddydev.com/support/forums/).

**Love BuddyPress?** We do. Checkout our list of powerful [BuddyPress plugins](https://buddydev.com/plugins/).

_Note_:- The views may not work properly with BP Nouveau template pack. We are unable
to support BP Nouveau till September 2018.

## Screenshots

[⌊Widget settings screenshot-1.png⌉⌊Widget settings screenshot-1.png⌉[

Widget settings screenshot-1.png

[⌊Featured Members list as slider screenshot-2.png⌉⌊Featured Members list as slider
screenshot-2.png⌉[

Featured Members list as slider screenshot-2.png

## Installation

 1. Visit Dashboard->Plugins->add New
 2. Search for BuddyPress featured Members
 3. Install this plugin
 4. Click Activate
 5. Now, you can use the widget or shortcode [bp-featured-members].

For more details, Please see the plugin documentation page.

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/84ca425504b084bb36e5749cf4e659e94cc5641e2731b47a61130f7cb20efca7?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Very great plugin compatible with Buddypress](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-great-plugin-compatible-with-buddypress/)󠁿

 [sandrineledc1106](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sandrineledc1106/) July 22, 2020

This plugin is exactly what I was looking for to promote my social network's members
and reap the financial benefits. The wigdet can be implemented anywhere on my site
and I can choose which types of members to highlight. Design fits my Theme perfectly
and it's a great marketing tool. Finally, technical support is very responsive and
friendly; and always finds solutions for specific requests. WELL PLAYED !

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9038fefd4186ca83516f213a9f8a94fac14c784244d7018c6bad9752e4e6eb92?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Is Excellent, great and awesome!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-excellent-great-and-awesome/)󠁿

 [dglite](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dglite/) October 1, 2018

Hi: thks for this great plugin. Is Excellent, great and awesome!

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b18a56afcfc46ecc99d5bbee5d1c245d12635c18ff5035ee6623665ac8583577?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Good](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/good-2912/)󠁿

 [Ward](https://profiles.wordpress.org/yward/) October 12, 2017

CSS issues.

 [ Read all 3 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bp-featured-members/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“BuddyPress Featured Members” is open source software. The following people have
contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ BuddyDev ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/buddydev/)
 *   [ Ravi Sharma ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/raviousprime/)
 *   [ Brajesh Singh ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sbrajesh/)

“BuddyPress Featured Members” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/bp-featured-members/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “BuddyPress Featured Members” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/bp-featured-members)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-featured-members/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/bp-featured-members/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/bp-featured-members/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/bp-featured-members/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.1.5

 * Fix notices

#### 1.1.4

 * Member args type attribute support in shortcode as well as widget.

#### 1.1.3

 * Minor code enhance to allow type based filtering if the code is used manually.

#### 1.1.2

 * Fix Featured Members Count.

#### 1.1.1

 * Fix translation.
 * Enhance code indentation.

#### 1.1.0

 * Convert slide options to boolean.
 * Add note about Nouveau compatibility.

#### 1.0.9

 * Added slider options in the widget options.

#### 1.0.8

 * Add the missing language header in plugin.

#### 1.0.7

 * Renaming localization file to make it work with wp.org translation.

#### 1.0.6

 * sanitization

#### 1.0.5

 * Rename size attribute to avatar size so that more understandable

#### 1.0.4

 * Add avatar size support in widget and shortcodes

#### 1.0.3

 * Fix the list when using default theme style.

#### 1.0.2

 * Allow filtering by BuddyPress member types
 * Fix loading of translation files

#### 1.0.0

 * initial release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1.5**
 *  Last updated **1 year ago**
 *  Active installations **300+**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.5.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.8.10**
 *  Languages
 * [Dutch](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/bp-featured-members/) and [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-featured-members/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/bp-featured-members)
 * Tags
 * [buddypress](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/buddypress/)[featured members](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/featured-members/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-featured-members/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4.7 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  2 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bp-featured-members/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  1 4-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bp-featured-members/reviews/?filter=4)
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## Contributors

 *   [ BuddyDev ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/buddydev/)
 *   [ Ravi Sharma ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/raviousprime/)
 *   [ Brajesh Singh ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sbrajesh/)

## Support

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