BuddyPress.org

They provide lots of theme options, it’s wonderful if you don’t need to do anything out of the options. But once you go beyond the options, for every little bit customizing you need to learn their ways, that means you have to learn things on both sides. At a point, I decide I would spend time only on one side. BP is a big thing, actively developing, it’s un-avoidable that you want to implement new stuffs every now and then. That why I finally settled down on BP with child theme. At beginning, it’s difficult– for every little bit, you need some code. After get used to the standard way of doing things, it becomes easy.