Today the BuddyPress team is excited to announce the first beta of BuddyPress 1.7.
BuddyPress 1.7 is likely to be our most revolutionary release to date. With it will come full theme compatibility with almost all existing WordPress themes, making it easier than ever to get your community up and running quickly. For those of you looking for a complete changelog, check out the 1.7 milestone in trac.
From now until 1.7 is released, we will be periodically merging our ongoing development into the WordPress.org plugin repository. If you’re just starting your first BuddyPress site, we encourage you to start with the 1.7 beta rather than 1.6.4, so that you’re familiar with what’s coming rather than what’s passed.
Now’s the time to report some feedback and let us know if you find anything unexpected happening. We are on course to release BuddyPress 1.7 in the first half of March.
If you think you found a bug, please report it on the BuddyPress Core Trac. If you find a security vulnerability, please be discrete and let us know privately using one of the methods posted on the WordPress contact page.
Hi John,awesome work guys. Kudos to all the core dev and the the people who helped shape it 🙂
off to test the plugins with beta 🙂
Awsome, have been waiting for it for so long….
Thanks you all so much…
sweet! congrats on the release!
This is awesome news indeed. Look forward to the awesome changes.
Is there any more information re: the integration with the existing WordPress theme? That has, for me, been the primary reason not to use buddypress and has been why, when I needed my own forum, I built one with custom post types.
If all you need is forums, you should just use bbPress.
Welcome. Great. Congratulations!
“Bravo” for the great work !!
razzle dazzle!
Very Nice! A post-Valentine’s Day gift 🙂
Awesome!!! I can’t wait to dive in!
This looks like fantastic job! Well Done!
It seems it works 😉
I love you guys
How do I set up the groups forum section in groups ?
Installing the bbPress 2.3 beta is the easiest way to get started.
These are some exciting news! Can’t wait to test-drive it! 🙂
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Fantastic. Two suggestions
1. Remind people (eg me) that to instal the Beta they need to unzip and instal via FTP [which will overwrite existing BP folder at …/plugins/BuddyPress
2. I don’t think the ReadMe has been updated to reflect 1.7 eg
= 1.6.4 =
See: https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/version-1-6-4/
AND
= Can I use my existing WordPress theme? =
Of course! Once you’ve installed and activated BuddyPress, the Installation Wizard will guide you through the available theme options. You’ll be given the option of installing the BuddyPress Template Pack, which will help you add BuddyPress compatibility to your existing theme.
Be sure to also try out the default theme bundled with BuddyPress. It provides all the awesome features of a standard WordPress blog, but also integrates BuddyPress’s features in a seamless and beautiful way. The BuddyPress Default theme is a snap to customize, with full support for custom headers and backgrounds and multiple widget areas. It also makes a great starting point for your own child theme.
Thanks for the feedback. We’ll update the readme.txt as one of the final things we do before releasing 1.7.
I have 1.7 Beta1 up and running! Awesome. I’m looking forward to finding out more about it in the days to follow.
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Thanks for the notice, @mercime
–Kevin
Great news. 🙂
Theme compatibility will boost BuddyPress usage IMHO.
till now it is nice! everything worked nice. Very good job!
Absolutely amazing, just tested this with a random wordpress theme and it works like a charm. One small thing i noticed; group title is displayed twice. Once in it’s normal location (group header) and once baove that in what apears to be a post/page title. Small price to pay really (and easaly solved with a little css). This really is a huge leap forward (no longer stuck with just a few buddypress enabled themes or the template pack) Thank you!
Thanks! You’re right that some odds and ends will appear in some themes. Hopefully everyone else can also CSS their way past them.
This is great is there any better integration for it to work better with SEO plugins like Yoast?
Nothing specific in 1.7; sorry.
Please consider to fix this ticket before release 1.7:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4835
what exactly does it mean to have full-theme compatibility? will all wordpress themes (that weren’t formatted for buddypress) magically transform into buddypress themes without error? What will it to to the design and layout since buddypress has additional features and functions?
I asked a developer who was selling a buddypress integrated child theme if the release of Buddypress 1.7 would render his theme obsolete, to which he replied “there is no such thing as universally theme friendly and that there will always be a need for a child theme.” (and yes, he could be stupid or lying)
Ha. He’s neither stupid nor lying, but the goal of theme compatibility is indeed for it to work with any WordPress theme. It’s a little technical, but it’s also relatively primitive in it’s implementation. Basically, we intercept the template loader, and inject BuddyPress template output in the content area of the page.
There might be some CSS quicks here or there, since every theme is created differently. We’re pretty confident we can deliver a satisfactory-enough result to a majority of WordPress themes, at least enough to lower the barrier of entry into BuddyPress significantly.
I am from rtPanel Theme framework team.
I tested rtPanel on BuddyPress 1.7.1 and it worked like charm. After much digging around, I found only 1-2 lines of CSS needed fixing in rtPanel. That’s too trivial things like margin/padding.
I think most of properly coded themes will work with BuddyPress and bbPress nicely.
As far as made-for buddypress-themes concerned, those theme developers should take it other way. With some changes, they can get same designs working on BuddyPress and WordPress.
That’s really cool news 🙂
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Ye i installed this on my multisite which i use domain mapping with, installed bp which wont work as its trying to create pages on the original multisite domain
You’ll need to tell BuddyPress which site you want to be the root; or, you’ll only want to activate BuddyPress on one site (not network wide.)
BuddyPress is capable of an unlimited variation of installation types, but you may need to work a bit to make it fit into your exact setup and needs.
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I found a bug
http://chithien.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Duplicate.png
Please create a ticket at: http://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org
One more bug. I use social theme. When i fill my social profile and this bug.
http://chithien.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/social-profile.png
Hard to tell what’s going on here. Are you confident it’s not the fault of whatever plugin you’re using to populate the social media icons?
I was so excited to see that you could use buddypress on a wordpress site I’m actually using it on my live site. http://vapersplace.com
I had to do some tweeking but it works pretty good. The load more wasn’t working so I switched to pagenation. I can now also use a mobile theme so it works well on the mobile version of my site. Thanks Buddypress 🙂
Sorry, meant to say wordpress theme 🙂
YAY!! It works now on any site! THANK YOU!
I’m a little worried about the new version. How will theme integration in 1.7 affect theme’s that use BuddyPress Template pack and edited BP templates?
On the other side of it, I’m looking forward to the new version.
No changes to existing installations. Sites can migrate over at their leisure.
Excellent, thank you. Will be installing and testing this week so will hopefully have some good feedback.
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i have testing new activity stream…
if anyone reply for this comment, i get notify?
Just tried beta on a couple highly customized networks and so far so good. Very nicely done! I just activated the plugin, turned off BP Template Pack and everything* just kept working!
All I have to do is turn off the current templates by removing the old bp directories from the theme, and the theme compat pages kick in. So this makes it real easy to slowly migrate over to the new template files.
Very nice.
Good Day,
I just intalled buddypress 1.7 and most is well. When I try to create a new forum topic as a test the box that comes up disappears and I’m not able to create a topic. So I went into bbpress settings and its said the slug for forums in WordPress may cause a problem so I changed it (slug) and the forums page still box stills disappears when click. What am I doing wrong!!
any time scale for final release date ?
I had buddypress installed and bbpress. I updated to this version so that i wouldn’t have to use the tempate pack any more. Before installation i deleted buddypress and buddypress template pack. I then unzipped and uploaded the file to the plugin folder. In the wordpress backend i activated the plugin. It seems to be working but for 2 things. The register page css is messed up and doesn’t cover the whole page. That isn’t as important though. My slider has stopped working. (this is the same thing that happened with the template pack which is why i was upgrading) can anyone tell me why this is happening?