All wire messages and BP 1.1 status updates will be converted into BP 1.2 activity items.
Users and groups will remain as-is.
The only thing is if you’re dependent on BP 1.1.3 plugins, most of them won’t work off the bat until plugin developers have a chance to modify their code to 1.2 standards.
Also, if you’re using a highly-customized BP theme, you’ll have to adjust that as well.
I have a highly-customized theme. I noticed in an earlier attempt to upgrade from 1.0 to 1.2 beta that name changes for the template tags were a big hurdle. I’ll now stay on 1.1.3, probably until the summer. Not looking forward to the next upgrade…
Is there/will there be a list of template tag name changes, so you can go through them systematically with search/replace?
When you upgrade to BP 1.2, you can use the BP backwards compatibility plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-backwards-compatibility/
That will probably be the easiest way to keep your template tags.
Thanks r-a-y, that looks like a good fall-back option.
I don’t mind doing some work to keep my custom theme current with whereever BP is going though, so a list of the name changes would still be extremely helpful.
So… there will be an updates but it may not be effective at preserving user groups, tags, wires and messages?
“I noticed in an earlier attempt to upgrade from 1.0 to 1.2 beta that name changes for the template tags were a big hurdle. I’ll now stay on 1.1.3, probably until the summer. Not looking forward to the next upgrade…
Is there/will there be a list of template tag name changes, so you can go through them systematically with search/replace?” So the transition from 1.1.3 stable to 1.2 stable whenever it is released) will not be smooth?
I hope it will be because no online community likes big inconveniences.
Also, are there any estimates of when a stable release may come out? I’m very confident the stable release will be a wonderful milestone for the BP community.
Also, are there any estimates of when a stable release may come out?
I’d say a week or two. Nothing longer than that.
So… there will be an updates but it may not be effective at preserving user groups, tags, wires and messages?
Your data is in MySQL and should be safe no matter what you do to the php. The problem would be only in displaying it. That depends mostly on template tags.
If you use standard themes you probably won’t have too much trouble I imagine. It’s mostly difficult people with custom themes who will be screwed I guess.
Also 1.0 to 1.2 is a pretty big leap. If that were my site, I’d have upgraded to 1.1 first and then 1.2.
