BuddyPress

  • New Plugin Adds bbPress and BuddyPress Conditionals to Query Monitor

    New Plugin Adds bbPress and BuddyPress Conditionals to Query Monitor

    John Blackbourn’s Query Monitor has quickly become a favorite debugging plugin for WordPress developers ever since it was released last November. The plugin has 227 stars on github and has been downloaded more than 5,000 times from WordPress.org. One of the unique features of Query Monitor is the ability to narrow things down by plugin…

  • Where to Find BuddyPress Language Files

    Where to Find BuddyPress Language Files

    Did you know that BuddyPress can be used in different languages? It’s actually a very international community. Based on the results from a survey conducted in 2013, nearly 50% of BuddyPress sites are in languages other than English. With BuddyPress being used in so many different countries, it’s important to know where to find BuddyPress…

  • BuddyPress 2.0 Development Kicks Off, Release Set for Mid-April

    BuddyPress 2.0 Development Kicks Off, Release Set for Mid-April

    BuddyPress 1.9.2 was released today. This maintenance release includes two important security fixes related to group creation. It also adds a few improvements to WordPress menus integration, bp-default theme switching and theme compatibility. Today is also the beginning of the BuddyPress 2.0 development cycle. The plugin’s core contributors have finalized dates for beta 1 and…

  • Free BuddyPress Wallpapers Now Available For Desktop and Mobile Devices

    Free BuddyPress Wallpapers Now Available For Desktop and Mobile Devices

    Good news for BuddyPress fans: The project now has wallpapers available for desktop and mobile devices. While viewing the official BuddyPress logos and fonts page, I noticed that there were no wallpapers like those that you can find on the WordPress Logos page. I decided to reproduce a few of the wallpapers for BuddyPress, based…

  • BuddyPress 2.0 To Add Profile Editing in the WordPress Admin

    BuddyPress 2.0 To Add Profile Editing in the WordPress Admin

    BuddyPress 2.0 is underway and an exciting new feature is in the works. This next release will add profile editing to the WordPress admin. Navigating to the admin Users screen and clicking on “profile” will take you to a new “Community Profile” tab for backend profile management. In addition to editing profile fields, this new…

  • A Library of WP-CLI Commands for BuddyPress

    A Library of WP-CLI Commands for BuddyPress

    BuddyPress developers, here’s something new for your toolbox. Boone Gorges has created a WP-CLI community package of BuddyPress commands. This collection includes just a few commands that have helped him with BuddyPress development but he welcomes your pull requests. So far, the commands include: bp activate — Activate a component. bp activity_create — Create a…

  • Why WordPress Theme Authors Still Need to Specify BuddyPress Compatibility

    Why WordPress Theme Authors Still Need to Specify BuddyPress Compatibility

    When BuddyPress 1.7 was released in April 2013, the most anticipated new feature was WordPress theme compatibility. This marked a turning point in BuddyPress history and meant that sites no longer required a BuddyPress-specific theme. Prior to 1.7, use of the plugin depended on having a BP-enabled theme. Developers had to do quite a bit…

  • WordCamp Miami Adds BuddyCamp to 2014 Event

    WordCamp Miami Adds BuddyCamp to 2014 Event

    Over the weekend, WordCamp Miami announced a date change for the 5th anniversary event. It’s now pushed up to to May 9-11, 2014. BuddyPress designers, developers and enthusiasts will be pleased to know that the organizers of the event have also given the green light to host another BuddyCamp Miami. This is the second BuddyCamp…

  • Help Shape BuddyPress Development in 2014

    Help Shape BuddyPress Development in 2014

    BuddyPress is about to enter development for the 2.0 release and the core team is seeking input from the community on what to prioritize for 2014 development. John James Jacoby posted on the BuddyPress blog to invite all users, developers and interested parties to weigh in on BuddyPress in the 2014 Survey. Questions in the…

  • BuddyPress 1.9 “Sammy” Released With New Notifications Component

    BuddyPress 1.9 was released to the world today thanks to many volunteer contributors who worked hard to make it happen. This release pays tribute to Sammy’s Pizza in Providence, Rhode Island, where lead developer John James Jacoby has enjoyed many fine pizza pies. Here’s a quick tour of the three main highlights of this release.…

  • BuddyPress Codex Completely Revamped with New Design, Tutorials and Guides

    BuddyPress Codex Completely Revamped with New Design, Tutorials and Guides

    Have you checked out the BuddyPress codex lately? It’s sporting a completely refreshed design and the content has been updated and expanded. For the longest time, one of the biggest complaints about BuddyPress was the lack of documentation. Earlier this year, BuddyPress developers @hnla and @mercime conducted a survey to find out how the community…

  • BuddyPress 1.9 Beta 1 Released and Ready For Testing

    BuddyPress 1.9 Beta 1 was released over the weekend. You know what that means: some very exciting improvements to BuddyPress are right around the corner after a short period of testing. BuddyPress users are encouraged to fire up their development environments to start testing the beta. So far there are 84 closed tickets for the…

  • How to Prevent BuddyPress From Changing Comment Author URLs

    Did you know that BuddyPress changes the URL for comment authors to point to the user’s BuddyPress profile? It does this by filtering the ‘comments_array’ in the bp-core-filters.php file to insert BuddyPress URLs for blog post comments: add_filter( ‘comments_array’, ‘bp_core_filter_comments’, 10, 2 ); For most BuddyPress sites this is a good thing, since it emphasizes…

  • A New Website For Test Driving BuddyPress

    The official BuddyPress Test Drive site, located at testbp.org, had been around since the early days of BuddyPress before it was taken down. Testbp.org was always running the latest version of BuddyPress and served as a place where users could try out the plugin in a live environment. Three years ago, when BuddyPress 1.2 was…

  • RIP BuddyPress Default Theme: Finally Laid to Rest in 1.9

    The BuddyPress Default Theme passed away at his home in the BuddyPress trunk on November 13, 2013, surrounded by family. BP Default is predeceased by his parents and relatives, the 1.1 themes, the wire, and the status components. Born on February 16th, 2010, during the golden era of BuddyPress 1.2, the BP Default theme was…