Immediately available is BuddyPress 10.3.0. This maintenance release fixes seven bugs, mainly BP Nouveau improvements. It also makes sure BuddyPress is ready for the upcoming WordPress 6.0 release. For details on the changes, please read the 10.3.0 release notes.
Update to BuddyPress 10.3.0 today in your WordPress Dashboard, or by downloading it from the WordPress.org plugin repository.
mike80222, oztaser, mackey1, shanebp, comminski, dd32 & imath.
Immediately available is BP Rewrites 1.1.0. This maintenance release fixes two bugs. For details on the changes, please read the 1.1.0 release notes.
Update to BP Rewrites 1.1.0 today in your WordPress Dashboard, or by downloading from the WordPress.org plugin repository.
shawfactor & imath.
We’re very excited to announce our first “feature as a plugin” hosted on the official WordPress.org Plugin directory is now available for download. Today marks another important date into our project’s history: BuddyPress is progressively moving towards using the WordPress Rewrite API to create, manage, parse and customize every URL generated by the plugin.
Read more →Contributors: @davins, @vapvarun, @imath.
We’ve met twice during this first month of documentation contributions. ICYMI our documentation site is named the Codex.
| Tasks | Contributor in charge | Progress | Ticket |
|---|---|---|---|
| Update the current Codex table of content | @imath | Achieved | #8658 |
| Update the “Getting started” section | @vapvarun | Pending | |
| Update the “Members” section | @dcavins | Pending | |
| Update the “Core” section | @imath | Pending | |
| Put up staging site | @imath | Achieved |
Next documentation contributor meeting is scheduled to April 13 at 2000 UTC, it will happen in #BuddyPress.
We’d love to get more help from the community, please contribute with us to this much needed work.
Immediately available is BuddyPress 10.2.0. This maintenance release fixes five bugs. For details on the changes, please read the 10.2.0 release notes.
Update to BuddyPress 10.2.0 today in your WordPress Dashboard, or by downloading from the WordPress.org plugin repository.
niftythree, oztaser, maleemuse, Nihanthk, devanshijoshi, dd32 & imath.
Hi the BuddyPress community,
We haven’t updated the BuddyPress Codex for a while and it really needs a big refresh! The BuddyPress development team decided at the end of their last week meeting to spend the next 4 to 6 months on this very important task: make our documentation up to date, better organized, more accurate and more useful to all BuddyPress user “levels”.
No major releases, all energy on docs!
@imath
That’s why we kindly invite you all to join this effort and why not become members of a new BuddyPress Docs team!
We’ll meet every other Wednesday for an hour to talk about docs during a new “documentation contributor hour”. Our kick off meeting is scheduled next week (March 2) at 20:00 UTC. It will happen into the #BuddyPress channel of the WordPress.org slack.
Let’s all contribute to BuddyPress documentation.
Immediately available is BuddyPress 10.1.0. This maintenance release fixes ten bugs. For details on the changes, please read the 10.1.0 release notes.
Update to BuddyPress 10.1.0 today in your WordPress Dashboard, or by downloading from the WordPress.org plugin repository.
muhittinsahilli, oztaser, r-a-y, niftythree, vapvarun, dcavins, sx1001, espellcaste, dd32 & imath.
Special mentions to niftythree who reported 5 bugs 😍 and to oztaser who contributed with 5 patches to fix 40% of the bugs 💪.
“La Pino’z” is our first major release of 2022, and it’s version 10 of BuddyPress! It all started for us in 2009, 2 years before Sanam Kapoor opened his very first pizzeria in his hometown of Chandigarh, India. Known for its delicious and rich traditional Italian pizza, “La Pino’z” soon became one of the most famous foods shared in the Indian community. From that very moment to 350 plus restaurants over India today and soon elsewhere in the world, Sanam and his team have unquestionably come a very long and successful way. La Pino’z is also the only pizza chain in India equipped with giant pizza machines producing the 24” inch monster pizza 😜
With love,
the BP Team.
Photo credits knoksense.com
You can get it clicking on the above button, downloading it from the WordPress.org plugin directory or checking it out from our Subversion repository.
If you’re upgrading from a previous version of BuddyPress, it’s always a good idea to back up your WordPress database and files ahead of time.
You can review all of the changes in this 10.0.0 release in the release notes. Please note that BuddyPress 10.0.0 requires WordPress 5.4.
That being said, let’s talk about the new delicious features we believe you are going to enjoy a lot!
Take control of your site’s membership! With site membership requests, administrators can significantly reduce the number of spam users trolling their sites.
When requests are enabled, visitors may submit a membership request, which must be manually approved by a site administrator. Read more about this feature.
These simple activities about specific user interactions or events (for example, you and me are now friends) are more visually attractive to improve user engagement in your community.
The most impressive new activity is that which is generated when a user updates her profile photo: it will include the profile photo that spurred the creation of the activity item, even if it has been changed since. Learn more about it by reading this developer note.
As shown in the image above, the BuddyPress administration screens are now using the layout WordPress uses for its tabbed administration screens such as the Site-Health or Privacy screens.
Knowing the WordPress pages BuddyPress uses for its front-end directory screens is simpler with special status information displayed beside all BuddyPress pages.
BuddyPress Add-ons are experimental plugins, beta features packaged as plugins, that will be made available into the official WordPress.org plugins directory so that it’s easier for you to test them and give the development team your feedback.
The more we are to get involved into the future of our open source project, the brighter it will be and the faster we’ll be able to include great new features!
BuddyPress Add-ons are also stable complementary BP Components or BP Blocks, which we have decided to keep independent from the core of BuddyPress, leaving you the choice whether to use the feature or not. The BP Search Block is the first example of this second category of add-ons. Give it a try; you can easily install it from your BuddyPress Add-ons administration screen.
WordPress 5.9 will introduce Full Site Editing featuring the new default theme Twenty Twenty-Two.
We’ve adjusted our BP Theme Compatibility API so that you can enjoy this amazing feature, making sure that BuddyPress-generated content integrates optimally within themes supporting it.
➕ The BP Nouveau Template Pack also includes a companion stylesheet to maximize BP pages layout within Twenty Twenty-Two.
10.0.0 comes with more than 70 changes including performance improvements to the BP Notifications, BP Activity and BP Signups APIs; Date Query support for the Members, Groups and Sites loops; new BP Avatar UI Recycle tab, improved inline documentation/translators comments and code formatting. Have a look to the release notes to discover them all!
Achilles4400, Adil Öztaşer (oztaser), Boone B Gorges (boonebgorges), Brajesh Singh (sbrajesh), Christian Wach (needle), comminski, Dan Caragea (dancaragea), David Cavins (dcavins), Dhaval Kasavala (dhavalkasvala), Dion Hulse (dd32), durdenx, ellucinda, Evan Stein (vanpop), Gary Jones (garyj), Hasanuzzaman (hasanuzzamanshamim), jakubrak, Jean-David Daviet (Jean-David), Jennifer Burnett (jenfraggle) John James Jacoby (johnjamesjacoby), josett225, Ketan Chawda (ketan_chawda), konnektiv, Laurens Offereins (Offereins), magland, mandro, marioshtika, Mark Robson (markscottrobson), Mathieu Viet (imath), Nifty (niftythree), nunks, oddev56, Paul Gibbs (DJPaul), r-a-y, Renato Alves (espellcaste), rigsbyx, thomaslhotta, Varun Dubey (vapvarun), venutius, yesbutmaybeno.
Receiving your feedback and suggestions for future versions of BuddyPress genuinely motivates and encourages our contributors. Please share it 🙏
“Release Candidate” means that we believe the new version is ready for release, but with more than 200,000 active installs, hundreds of BuddyPress plugins and thousands of WordPress themes, it’s possible we missed something. BuddyPress 10.0.0 is slated for release on January 17, 2022, but your help is needed to get there 🙏.
You can get the 10.0.0-RC1 pre-release package in 4 ways:
svn co https://buddypress.svn.wordpress.org/trunk/git clone git://buddypress.git.wordpress.org/Site Administrators wishing to have more control over who can join their community will be able to enable site membership requests from their BuddyPress Options Administration screen. Once done, BuddyPress sign-ups are transformed into membership requests to be manually reviewed and approved by an administrator to validate new user accounts.
These simple activities about specific user interactions or events (e.g.: a user became a friend of another user) will be more visually attractive to improve user engagement in your community. The most impressive new activity is that which is generated when a user updates their profile photo: it will include the profile photo that spurred the creation of the activity item, even if it has been updated since 📸!
You’re beta testing WordPress 5.9: first thank you, second please take a few more minutes to check the improvements we’ve made to our BP Theme Compatibility API to play nice with themes supporting Full Site Editing such as the next WordPress default theme: Twenty Twenty-Two.
BuddyPress Add-ons are side projects/projects as features/next BuddyPress blocks maintained by the BuddyPress development team we’ll soon make more widely available by publishing them on the WordPress plugin directory. When BuddyPress 10.0.0 is released, you’ll find a new tab to your “Add Plugins” Administration screen. On it, you’ll see a new add-on for a potentially upcoming feature: BP Rewrites. We think this will bring more contributions to the BuddyPress project as a whole.
A detailed changelog will be part of our official release note. In the meantime, you can check the 10.0.0 milestone changes list from our Trac environment.
Translate BuddyPress into your language. The release candidate also marks the string freeze point of the 10.0.0 release schedule. And we don’t have much time to update all of the BuddyPress translations. So if you speak a language other than English, please help us translate BuddyPress into as many languages as possible!
If you think you’ve found a bug, you can share it with us replying to this support topic or if you’re comfortable writing a reproducible bug report, file one on BuddyPress Trac.
Thanks in advance for your help–we can’t build BuddyPress without you! Happy testing!
Immediately available is BuddyPress 9.2.0. This maintenance release fixes three bugs, anticipates one issue which appeared while beta testing WordPress 5.9 and prepares the release of our first BuddyPress add-on (a community search block). For details on the changes, please read the 9.2.0 release notes.
Update to BuddyPress 9.2.0 today in your WordPress Dashboard, or by downloading from the WordPress.org plugin repository.
josett225, needle, dd32 & imath
The BuddyPress developers and contributors wish you the best for this new year! Have fun, stay safe and carry on sharing great words & feelings with WordPress and BuddyPress 📝 🤗
“Très belle année à tou·te·s”
