BuddyPress

So Wordpress 3.1 has just been launched, I was interested in when Buddypress 1.3 is expected and any experiences/thoughts anyone has about the new updates.

I can see the admin bar is already something that currently clash, although I saw some comments on work arounds for that.

I would not upgrade on a live site until you get an official statement from the BP dev team.

@modemlooper most definitely not – although I did hit upgrade on a dev site and unsurprisingly it broke it, I can’t see the new sparkly dashboard – but I can see the admin bar!

This isn’t going to be a simple upgrade…not just for us BP users. Reading through the list of changes, there are a lot of potential plugin conflicts. Probably best a wait a couple of weeks.

Can you share the work arounds for getting rid of the admin bar? It is covering my buddypress bar. Ugh!

/* Disable the WP 3.1 Admin Bar. ( http://yoast.com/disable-wp-admin-bar/ ) */
add_filter( 'show_admin_bar', '__return_false' );

in functions.php

BuddyPress will be updated later today to account for changes in WP 3.1.

In the meantime, if you have upgraded your live site and are unexpectedly missing the BP admin bar, use the code provided by aces above.

@boonebgorges great, thanks, I look forward to it

I warn that BP may get upgraded but all those extra plugins may break.

The changes that have been made in BP 1.2.8 are very, very unlikely to break any plugins. It’s possible that some of the changes in WP 3.1 will break some BP plugins, though I don’t know of any plugins where that is the case (and I have been running 3.1 in my test installs for quite some time).

Just warning as people use WP plugins on BP sites and there are a ton of outdated plugins in the repo. I had a couple plugins break in 3.1.

You should always re-test plugins before upgrading BP or WP on a live site.

This just terrifies me.

You should always test *any* upgrade of *any* type in a development or test environment. Never, ever, ever, ever, ever put untested code into production! A word to the wise

I got 106 plugins.

I got 99 problems.