BuddyPress 1.5 now available!
September 21, 2011 in Community, News
BuddyPress 1.5 “Lombardi” is here!
Version 1.5 is a major feature release for BuddyPress, encompassing hundreds of bug fixes, enhancements, and all-new features. BuddyPress 1.5 comes with a completely reworked Default theme, a brand-new installation and update wizard, integration with the WordPress navigation menus and Admin Bar, a rewritten interface for managing profile fields, and scores of smaller improvements. To see the complete list of BuddyPress 1.5′s fixes and features, check out the dedicated BuddyPress Codex 1.5 features and fixes page.
We’ve given BuddyPress 1.5 the codename “Lombardi”. The BuddyPress core development team is made up of pizza fanatics who thought it fitting to pay homage in this release to the first pizzeria in the United States. (As a bonus, two of our developers hail from the Badger State where the name “Lombardi” has a different but no less important connotation.)
Do you have an existing site that you want to upgrade to BuddyPress 1.5? We’ve worked our hardest to ensure that your upgrade will go off without a hitch. The most popular BuddyPress plugins have been updated for full BuddyPress 1.5 compatibility, and on standard installations most of your other plugins and themes will continue to work as well. There’s a page on the BuddyPress Codex devoted to the process of upgrading to BuddyPress 1.5 where you’ll find lots of helpful resources on making your upgrade as smooth as possible. Don’t forget that the Codex is a wiki – if you’ve got some words of wisdom to share with the community, don’t be afraid to jump in and edit (using your buddypress.org account)! As usual, you’re encouraged to run upgrades in test environments before upgrading your live site.
If you’ve never used BuddyPress before, there’s never been a better time to try it out. BuddyPress 1.5 is the most secure and stable version to date.
If you experience problems with your BP 1.5 installation or upgrade, the BuddyPress community has assembled a collection of resources for you. In addition to the fixes and features and upgrade pages, there are many other tutorials and guides available from the Codex home page. buddypress.org is also the home of a vibrant set of support and discussion forums where you can read, ask, and answer questions about 1.5 and BuddyPress in general. And if you find bugs in BuddyPress itself, our development community’s home is http://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org.
BuddyPress 1.5 is the result of thousands of hours of work by hundreds of community members, in the form of patches, design, and testing. The following folks contributed patches that ended up in the release: AaronCampbell, AD7six, aesqe, andrewteg, apeatling, Backie, balbert, BB_Othella, bizybee, boonebgorges, bowromir, calvin_42, chestnut_jp, cnorris23, davidtcarson, dchase, ddean, deadpan110, defunctlife, delayedinsanity, denis.ogun, Dennissmolek, dgwatkins, enderandrew, for, francescolaffi, Ghost_ufa, gian-ava, greuben, gzeidan, Harry, hnla, intimez, ipstenu, j.conti, jefferai, jessica120, jfarthing84, johnjamesjacoby, johnpbloch, jond, Jonnyauk, karmatosed, kunalb, LanceHudson, lpryor, luccame, lucianop, lunabyte, mareck, mdawaffe, mercime, mikekennedy, modemlooper, mrmaz, nacin, nerrad, nuprn1, Paul Gibbs, PedroMiguel, ptahdunbar, r-a-y, rebootnow, sboisvert, sbrajesh, SergeyBiryukov, slaFFik, slambert, smurkas, sorich87, stas, sushkov, swinton, to, TobiasBg, travel-junkie, wpmuguru.
Many thanks to them and to everyone who helped test during the entire 1.5 development cycle. Without the contributions of this awesome community, BuddyPress simply would not be possible.
Now that that’s out of the way, order yourself a pizza and download BuddyPress 1.5 today!
Oggum said on September 21, 2011
Ah, this is so exciting. I can’t wait to dive into this. Thanks for all the hard work you’ve all put into it.
Matt said on September 21, 2011
Fantastic. Congrats to the BuddyPress team!
David Bisset said on September 21, 2011
Congrats to everyone for their hard work on this.
cupid4 said on September 21, 2011
Fantastic! I have been using 1.5 before even reaching beta stage..but it still feel very happy to see this as a final version right now.
Really thankful for you JJJ and all the names you mentioned, for me being sometimes around Trac..I saw how this guys give their time and attention..hats up for you…see you, pizza time now!
Anne said on September 21, 2011
Brilliant! I am very happy that BuddyPress Template Pack 1.2 is BP 1.5 compatible!
Brajesh Singh said on September 21, 2011
Congratulation Team BP! Specially JJJ, Boone and DjPaul for this awesome feat
Great work guys
HansRuedi Keller said on September 21, 2011
Thank you. Thank you – Thank you Team Lombardi!
Laurent said on September 21, 2011
Great !! Thanks a lot !
Sadr said on September 21, 2011
I don’t see the bbPress 2 compatibility called out. Is that because the integration happens mainly on bbPress’ end?..
Anyhow, huge thanks to everyone involved!
Jeffro said on September 21, 2011
Congrats to all involved. Looks like this release will be worth the wait for those that use BuddyPress. I bet this feels like a large weight lifted off your chest.
When will 1.6 be released? lol
Chris said on September 21, 2011
This is perfect timing. I am about to do a new implementation of BuddyPress for a client. Thank you for creating a great plugin!
Rimzan Hassan said on September 21, 2011
Awesome! & Congrats to the BuddyPress Team!
laminedj said on September 21, 2011
Thanks to all BP dev Team ! You did an awsome job !
jamie marsland said on September 21, 2011
Fantastic work john (and team!)
All Mad Ranting said on September 21, 2011
Awesome news! It’s only the beginning for BuddyPress.
bmilneslo said on September 21, 2011
Loving it so far. Thanks to the BP dev team. This is a big leap for BP, one that I think will make it a more mainstream application.
Patrick Pachner said on September 21, 2011
Great News. Finally it’s there, can’t wait to test it! Congrats to the Team!
JohnnyBlogWallah said on September 21, 2011
Thanks for the new 1.5 everyone!
Slight problem with forums.
Am using David Dean’s Networks for WordPress plugin, which may be the culprit, but with BBPress forums either sitewide or for groups, either getting Error 403 or the top navigation bar disappears and no topic or forum is displayed.
Any ideas or am I being dumb?
Thanks and best wishes.
Feast of Fun (Fausto Fernós) said on September 21, 2011
Can I get an Amen around here?
ewebber said on September 21, 2011
Exciting news – well done guys
juanmaguerrero said on September 21, 2011
Can’t explain how happy I am
Hurray BP team!!!! I’m giving a conference in Argentina tomorrow, talking about BuddyPress Development/usage, and I sure will lead the folks to this post!
Let’s make the web better! cheers!
PS: I love pizza too haha
me said on September 21, 2011
Wowwwww! Tonight i’ll download it! Thanks to all the devs.
nexia said on September 21, 2011
good luck with this version…
going to play with the theme though, need something compatible… rofl
David said on September 21, 2011
Congratulations!
donnacha of WordSkill said on September 22, 2011
Sincere thanks to everyone on the team, I’ll buy you all a Lombardi’s pizza sometime.
ticle united said on September 22, 2011
Thanks for the great work
from the ticle united Team!
Visit us on http://www.ticle.de
thosch said on September 22, 2011
Congratulations to all of us and THANKS for your great work!!
dennisbarker said on September 22, 2011
Well Done,I’ve got my site up and running, had pencilled in september 21st as the launch day (its my 46th birthday) and you made 1.5 official on exactly the right day to coincide with the launch.
Will be keeping a close eye on things from now onwards.
Regards
Dennis
Anton Koekemoer said on September 23, 2011
Excellent! Well done. Time to upgrade all my installations.
Eduardo Furbino said on September 24, 2011
I’m in love with this development team!
Thank you, guys. Awesome job!
Conni | INTERBOOST said on September 24, 2011
Congatulations for your hard word. I have learned more about buddypress of the wordcamp 2011 in cologne.
aj said on September 25, 2011
i also used to have problems with activating the forums. i had this error when i tried to post something
Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$wp_bb_topics_replied in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bb-includes/functions.bb-posts.php on line 419
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bb-includes/functions.bb-posts.php:419) in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 934
There were problems activating it too. For some reason, though, the error messages disappeared. I’m not exactly sure why.
Anyways good work guys! buddy press looks sharp. Had a question though, is the skeleton component still valid in the 1.5 version? I am looking at extending a component, but it wasn’t updated yet.
swingJazz said on September 26, 2011
Great. Thank you very much JJJ
Aaron Brazell said on September 26, 2011
Congrats on the big release. Is it too soon to start lobbying for 1.6 to be codenamed “Unitas”?
jimmytortuga said on September 27, 2011
Nice. STILL don´t understand, though, what the hold up is with blog avatars. It just seems so BASIC, you´d think it would´ve been available from the get go. A blog directory without images that identify each blog is simply unthinkable.
What do we want? BLOG AVATARS!
When do we want it? NOW!
Sloved said on September 30, 2011
For those having problems with style.css and child themes:
Put this inyour functions.php in your child theme.
if you delete this sentence, style.css wont load:
wp_enqueue_style( ”, get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . ‘/style.css’, array(), ” );
Sloved said on September 30, 2011
put this code–>
if ( !function_exists( ‘bp_dtheme_enqueue_styles’ ) ) :
function bp_dtheme_enqueue_styles() {}
wp_enqueue_style( ‘slipknot1′, get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . ‘/style.css’, array(), ” );
endif;
Sloved said on September 30, 2011
For those having problems with style.css and child themes:
Put this in your functions.php in your child theme:
if ( !function_exists( ‘bp_dtheme_enqueue_styles’ ) ) :
function bp_dtheme_enqueue_styles() {}
wp_enqueue_style( ‘slipknot1′, get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . ‘/style.css’, array(), ” );
endif;
You’ll you see that if you delete this sentence, style.css wont load:
wp_enqueue_style( ”, get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . ‘/style.css’, array(), ” );