RC-1 & New WordPress MU Functionality
February 11, 2009 in News
There are a couple of announcements to make that will effect both the BuddyPress project, and the WordPress MU project.
Over 300 commits and almost 200 bugs have been reported, confirmed and fixed since beta one versions of the BuddyPress plugins were released on December 15, 2008. Tomorrow the final versions are due, however instead of the final, release candidate versions of all plugins will be made available for download.
We don’t expect there to be any major changes between these release candidates and the final versions. We’re holding off on releasing the final versions for one specific reason, which brings me to the second announcement.
As it stands, site-wide plugin support in WordPress MU is fairly limited. You cannot activate or deactivate plugins, nor can you hook into the new automatic upgrade features introduced in version 2.7.
Over the next few weeks there will be work done to add integrated support for site-wide plugins in WordPress MU. Site-wide plugin support will provide the ability for plugins to be activated and deactivated site-wide via the administration panel. More importantly however, they will be able hook into the automatic upgrade features.
Once this feature is in place you will be able to download, install and update BuddyPress through your WordPress MU site administration panel. Having the ability to do this will greatly reduce the inconvenience of point release upgrades, which are an inevitable part of new product releases.
Tomorrow the download links for the release candidate will be posted on the downloads page. We’ll be putting the final version out as soon as site-wide plugin support in WordPress MU is completed.
Update: The download links for RC-1 are now live.
donnacha | WordSkill said on February 11, 2009
I know this has been said hundreds of times before, but it would be great to see BuddyPress breaking away from MU and towards regular WordPress.
brey said on February 11, 2009
How far away is the Album Component from the development cycle?
Brian
Jimi said on February 11, 2009
I gotta agree with Donnacha. This is such a great idea and would be so great and useful on regular wordpress.
tom (dB) said on February 12, 2009
Once you’ve done what you need to do on WPMU can you send someone over to help the folks at bbPress? It would be great to offer a fully supported version for use with BuddyPress.
Great work though, thanks!
Yonas WD said on February 12, 2009
@donnacha
Don’t disrupt all thing that has been built since the beginning. Buddypress will remain a strength for MU to fill the needs of the community-based wordpress. The MU means that the community. Unlike a regular wordpress which is to meet individual needs.
plrk said on February 12, 2009
awesome!
Adam W. Warner said on February 12, 2009
Thank you for doing this! This will certainly create a more efficient upgrade process for us all.
voronzoff said on February 12, 2009
great news!
MacWorkshop said on February 13, 2009
Fantastic news!
vache said on February 15, 2009
wow mate great job, i am so glad that buddypress stayed active, i hope it can end up integrating bbpress into MU becasue the bbpress guys are just not moving along