BuddyPress 1.5 – Beta 2
August 4, 2011 in News
Just 5 days after 1.5 Beta 1, up for grabs today for all you early adopters and plugin and theme developers is BuddyPress 1.5 Beta 2. It fixes a few bugs that cropped up early in Beta 1, and we want everyone to test with the newest code available.
If you are a BuddyPress plugin author, now is your time to help us help you, and check out all the work that’s gone into making the next version of BuddyPress faster, more efficient, more secure, and easier to code against.
As always, please DO NOT run BuddyPress Beta software on your live production site. There are going to be quirks with existing plugins, and we will be updating code rapidly as bug reports come in. Install BuddyPress 1.5 on a local installation or a test site, and let us know if you find anything that isn’t working the way it should. We are hoping the beta period will only last a few weeks, with a release in August.
You can download BuddyPress 1.5 Beta 2 today, from the bottom of our Trac page.
Huge thanks to all of our testers!
CelticWarrior72 said on August 5, 2011
That was quick. This is a dumb question, but where do I post bug reports?
-John W.
InterMike said on August 5, 2011
Report bugs / create ticket here: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/newticket
Login first, of course, via BuddyPress.org.
Anne said on August 5, 2011
I can almost already see this new 1.5 BuddyPress release ready! Good on you guys, and thank you for your fabulous work, as always.
Paul Gibbs said on August 5, 2011
@CelticWarrior72 If you’re sure it’s a bug, put it on http://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/. If you aren’t sure, or want feedback, post on the forums on this site
Thanks for testing!
CelticWarrior72 said on August 5, 2011
Thanks Paul. I left the comments where you suggested. This is the first time I’ve ever been involved in helping test a beta version of software, so please forgive me if my comments don’t follow development protocol (if there is one). Thanks for all your work on this. Cheers!
Hector Gil said on August 5, 2011
Have you considered a plugin like the wordpress beta?
imjscn said on August 5, 2011
If I have 5000 groups, does it mean I will have 5000 pages? Somewhere on the net they say when the number of pages exeeds 100 or 200, it will bring up performence issue.
What you guys say?
Alan said on August 6, 2011
If you have 5,000 groups you probably have at 4 or 5 times as many pages depending on whether you have the forums activated and how many posts there are in each forum and how many paginated pages there are in each post of each forum of each group. Then each page for each individual activity permalink page. Probably more I’m not thinking of right now.
tanvon malik said on August 6, 2011
Hi
a really great job. WordPress is awsome with buddypress.
testing said on August 7, 2011
Hi, all.
I have a problem with ‘extended profile fields’. If I try to add a new field using checkboxes only the first checkbox appears but if I choose, for example, a drop-down select box there is no problem and I can see all the options. I think this is a bug (or maybe I’m doing something wrong).
Cheers!!!
Johnny said on August 7, 2011
Surely W3 cache would fox any issues with >200 pages?
harounkola said on August 7, 2011
I was afraid BuddyPress was dead, with this site being so weird. What’s the future of BP in the age of Google+?
easilyamused said on August 7, 2011
Hi Guys,
Thanks for all your hard work. I’m having a problem getting the beta to been seen by WordPress.
If I place the current 1.2.9 buddypress plugin in my plugins folders it shows up in my inactive plugins, but if I then remove everything from my buddypress folder and replace it with the new files from trunk 1.5 beta 2 Nothing shows up.
Am I doing something wrong? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Would love to test the new system – just spent the last 2 months developing a social network on 1.2.9 that’s weeks away from going live.
Paul Gibbs said on August 8, 2011
Pages are only created for each of the top-level (or root) components. Specifically, Groups, Members, Blogs (if on multisite), Forums, Registration, and Activate; so only 6 pages. Third-party plugins may add more.
laoyao said on August 9, 2011
If the content of compose is too long , it will go out of inbox.
Mike Kennedy said on August 10, 2011
When’s BP 1.5 beta 3 coming out, guys?
Koozai said on August 10, 2011
Blimey that didn’t take long to fix the bugs. Well spotted guys, thanks for giving Beta users so many extra tweaks
Quint said on August 10, 2011
I am not sure if the following is a bug (per Paul’s comment, I’m posting this here):
Prior to installing BP 1.5 Beta 1, the BP site admin menu (in the site Dashboard) was available on my site using the BP default theme and to other BP compatible themes. I am not sure if I deactivated BP 1.2.9 before installing and activating BP 1.5 Beta 1 using the Network Admin Dashboard.
Nevertheless, the BP menu is available on the Network Dashboard and not on the Site Admin Dashboard. I uninstalled and deleted both 1.2.9 and 1.5. I then re-installed 1.5 Beta 1, network activated the plugin. The BP menu showed up on the Network Dashboard. I navigated to my site admin dashboard, activated the BP default theme, and looked for the BP 1.5 Beta 1 plugin but I could not find it. I then went back to the Network Dashboard, deactivated the plugin in, then navigated back to my site’s admin dashboard, and tried to find the plugin. Still not there. Neither was the BP admin dashboard menu.
I uninstalled BP 1.5 Beta 1 and then tried with Beta 2. Same result. I deleted both versions of 1.5 and tried with BP 1.2.9. Same result. FYI: during every combination that I tried, I had deactivated all plugins before installing and activating Buddypress.
I’m stuck.
pc tablet review said on August 12, 2011
setting up web pages can be tideous , stumbled on the buddypress site. look forward to taking part in bug testing to help develop what looks like an awesome tool
nanchante said on August 12, 2011
Great stuff. Is there anywhere we can see a demo of 1.5?
Paul Gibbs said on August 14, 2011
Yes; http://testbp.org/
anggamovic said on August 12, 2011
hy guys, i was download the it and try it localy,
because i am designer so the first is edited the default.css, i was done remake default.css become twitter looks like,but i got some eror,
first time i active bp it ok, but 2 or 3 days after that i got eror, i cant log in to admin, but when i acses the site direct it loaded normaly, i delet the bp from plugins dir, but it not help, till i change to new db.
Btw u can mail me if u want try the default.css i was mod,
anggagewor(at)gmail.com
faxianhu said on August 13, 2011
this new 1.5 BuddyPress release ready! Good on you guys, and thank you for your fabulous work, as always.
Haroun Kola said on August 13, 2011
Congratulations on your new update. When will you fix the buddypress.org site and get rid of all the scammers. My faith in your software is shaken and I’ve deleted your plugin from my sites for now.
Josh Chernoff said on August 13, 2011
Is this multi instance ready now? meaning can I have sub1.site.com and sub2.site.com both with their own Activity, Forums, Groups etc all running from one network wordpress install?
I have the plugin installed on the network wp install and only the root site seams to have a activity, forums, groups etc…
InterMike said on August 13, 2011
Can you stack pages on one another – i.e. site.com/activity/groups? I tried and it didn’t work lol. Just wondering…
Pete said on August 16, 2011
Hats of to you buddypress guys!
Much appreciated work from all of you.
Well done!
Amanda said on August 17, 2011
Thanks so much Boone for the great presentation last night at WPNYC! I am so excited to try 1.5, however I am having difficulty installing. I install the plugin, then when I hit activate, I get an error message saying the plugin in missing a header. The plugin does not appear in my either active or inactive lists. Thoughts? Thanks in advance.
O'Ryan said on August 18, 2011
@amanda, The reason you are getting that error is because the file you downloaded from the site is not ready as is to upload. It is looking for a php file in the first directory and instead is only finding another directory.
What you need to do is unzip on your local machine and either upload the buddypress folder inside that directory to your plugins folder on your server… or zip that buddy press folder and install that in the WP-ADMIN of your site like any other plugin.
Stephen said on August 18, 2011
What are the new features of BuddyPress 1.5? I know you said that it closes a huge number of tickets and makes changes for plugins, but it would be helpful to those who have used 1.2 to know generally what we can expect.
In particular, does BuddyPress make any privacy improvements in 1.5? I have found that it is difficult to make a private site using BuddyPress 1.2, I had to install a plugin just to block global access to content pages.
David Bressler said on August 18, 2011
@O‘Ryan Thank you, I had the same question as @amanda.
@amanda You will need to rename the subdirectory in “tags” (1.5-beta-2) to buddypress after copying it to plugins or you’ll get an error when activating.
Also, make sure to go to the track page to do the download – you get a later version. I’m not sure if this matters, but when I downloaded above from the link “download buddypress 1.5 beta 2″ I got version 4925, when I downloaded from the trac link I got 4998.
Good luck! Boone’s preso was exciting!
David
93south said on August 22, 2011
@david bressler
Perfect – exactly what I needed. Thank you!
wwwhatsup said on August 22, 2011
I’m installing on top of 1.2.9. I got as far as going through the wizard, but then on trying the site I get Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_is_blog_page() in /home/… ../wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/header.php on line 14
wwwhatsup said on August 22, 2011
Ah, I now see that I also made a dumb mistake which is when I hit the finish screen in the wizard I though I was done, but infact i still had to hit “finish and activate” – I’m wondering if there should be some text under there giving a helpful nudge.. when I do hit that I get Warning: in_array() [function.in-array]: Wrong datatype for second argument in /home/… …/wp-content/plugins/bp-registration-options/bp-registration-options.php on line 1594
and
Fatal error: Call to undefined function is_site_admin() in /home/… …/wp-content/plugins/bp-registration-options/bp-registration-options.php on line 6
Ah well.
wwwhatsup said on August 22, 2011
Happy to report that after I disabled all my plugins, install went through fine
If I can’t run the bp-registration plugin I’m going to have to go back over that bit about changing the address of the registration page as I get 2or 3 spam signups a day…