BuddyPress

Word today from WordCamp Denver - BuddyPress for Wordpress (standard, not MU) is coming. It looks like the only main difference is that you cannot have blogs/sites for individual users (obviouslly). But from the sounds of it, everything else is there.

It was said to be coming "in a few weeks". Some might have already known about this, but i've been too focused on other things including a presentation I gave about BuddyPress at BarCampMiami this past Sunday.

Opening for discussion. What do you think? :)

Where can we get more info on this? This could possibly be huge. Just for the fact that most people who use wordpress aren't that technical. So, if anyone has any data on this project I would like to see it.

Thanks for letting the cat out of the bag this is HUGE!!!

So, are you saying that there is a version somewhere that will work now? Because I'd love to test it. I have a dedicated server and the current ver of WordPress. If you got a download then I got some time to test...

"in" a few weeks or "for" a few weeks.

There's a distinct different in meaning there. :)

Perfect, I hope it wont be too long because I prefer to have a social network without a blog/site as long we could migrate into WPMU later on.

Not wishing to be a party pooper but my vote DEFINATLY goes for getting the feature-set for BuddyPress MU complete before even looking to release for Single Instance WP... and that includes the yet to be implemented BuddyPress Photo Album component.

Well that's interesting, and pretty much perfect for both platforms actually.

Makes me wish I was more involved in WordPress from the get go, sometimes I get a little lost in the code still to be able to put something that cool together.

Good job Andy. :thumbup:

@johnjamesjacoby - I wanted to say thanks, but i didn't catch your name. Thanks! And since this was released at WordPressDenver, I figured the cat was out of the bag already. Andy counts on big mouths like you and me. :)

Back on topic, I am tending to agree a bit with conceptfusion - many at the BarCampMiami were asking about photos. At the same time, having BP for WP is going to accelerate awareness and demand for BP and creation (or adapting) plugins/themes. This is one "con" that BP had to overcome in order to accomplish that "BP will do for social networks what WP did for blogs" speech I did last Sunday. :)

Is that patch in the latest version of MU?

And where is that downloaded?

Supporting WP as well as WPMU will not slow down or change the development of BuddyPress at all. I just want to make that clear.

Supporting WP should (and will) be a matter of flicking a switch and continuing along the same roadmap. Most of that switch is already in place, the things I mentioned before are not really blockers, when all things are considered.

Given that you are delaying the release of BP until site-wide plugins are introduced into MU, it might also be an idea to wait until the WP version is also ready.

Although as anxious as anyone to see the official release, it occurs to me that any project only gets one shot at it's 1.0 release and all the publicity that attends it. That one-off burst of attention can make all the difference to how much traction you gain in the long-run.

IF BuddyPress jumps into the spotlight as an MU-only project, that's obviously going to be of great interest to people already familiar with MU but the average blogger is going to scratch his head and not get much further than the fact that BuddyPress isn't for "normal" WordPress. Disappointed, he will return to his extensive collection of porn and ignore all future mentions of BuddyPress.

If, on the other hand, BuddyPress appears in the spotlight as a dual-release, with both a WP and an MU version, it will garner far more publicity, will be more obviously relevant to ordinary bloggers and will generally create a far larger splash, hopefully translating into greater momentum for the project.

Just a thought :)

You already know that,possibly,
but just to make it sure: You are Great, people.

Really looking forward to this! +1

You could try upgrading your site to MU but, personally, I would simply wait for the WP version of BuddyPress to arrive.

My guesstimate is that Andy will aim to coincide with the release of WP 2.8, currently scheduled for the beginning of April put will probably get pushed back to the middle of the month. He has said that the non-MU version of BP is almost ready to roll but I guess he wants to see how the release of the MU version goes first and, obviously, he isn't going to release for 2.7 with 2.8 so close.