The latest version of BuddyPress is now ready for download.
This release includes a substantial number of core code improvements as well as an array of useful new features.
Some highlights of this version are:
- One click internal bbPress forum integration allowing you to set up group forums in less than a minute.
- A global forum directory (example) allowing you to easily browse public facing forum posts regardless of the group they are attached to.
- Completely re-written theme handling. One theme now controls all of your installation. No hidden HTML, everything is in the template ready for you to skin.
- Easily create themes that are upgraded automatically when BuddyPress is updated.
- Total site admin control of all content within an installation. Edit user’s profiles, update avatars, mark users as spammers, manage all groups, delete site activity entries.
- Activity streams everywhere. Activity streams can be filtered allowing for feature specific activity streams or adding an activity stream to your custom plugin.
- A new status updates feature is included in BuddyPress 1.1. Actions and filters are included to allow plugin developers to hook into any external service.
- An awesome group extension API allowing developers to easily extend groups and add completely new features.
If you’re starting with a brand new installation, check out the new setting up a new installation help guide. If you’re upgrading from a previous version of BuddyPress, please make sure you read the upgrading from 1.0.x help guide before upgrading. There is a specific help guide on upgrading your 1.0.x custom theme to 1.1.
If you’re interested in building themes and plugins for BuddyPress 1.1, be sure to check out the new version of the BuddyPress Skeleton Component and the creating a BuddyPress child theme help guide.
I’d like to say a big thank you to everyone from the community who has helped in reporting problems, submitting bugs, writing patches and answering support queries. Without your help BuddyPress would not have the thriving community and development momentum it has today.
A special thanks to the following developers who submitted multiple bug reports and patches and also spent countless hours in IRC (#buddypress-dev) talking through issues:
JohnJamesJacoby, DJPaul, Junsuijin, JeffSayre, JasonG, Chouf1, GIGALinux, burtadsit, Ezd, Mariusooms, r-a-y, slaFFik, pertronic, j.conti
Happy BuddyPress-ing, and onwards to version 1.2!
Outstanding work my friends.
Great news. Time to start digging through.
Very exciting! Thanks for everyone’s hard work on this. I can’t wait to see how the project develops over the next year.
After spending the last weekend on theme-upgrades for 1.1 I feel prepared! Cheers @ all Devs!
Thanks! Congrats! Installing now!
Fantastic next step in BuddyPress’ evolution! It is a solid, feature-rich release.
Congrats to Andy and Dev team for the major release.
I was just waiting for this release to embark on my new project.
Excellent work guys!!
This is great: the extended group functions is precisely what I was hoping for.
Quick question: any upgrading steps from 1.1 beta? Can I just use svn (after backing everything up first, of course)? Or is there a better approach?
Again: nice work. Can’t wait to test it.
Awesome, and good job to all involved!
Great work! BuddyPress has evolved a lot since 1.0.
And thanks for adding me in a special thanks list. 🙂
If my buddy is on a different installation of buddypress, will I see his updated using rsscloud or PuSH?
I’d really like to host my stuff, but not have to have my friends register on my site.
Using legacy theme structure:
Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class bp_messages_thread in /html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-messages/bp-messages-classes.php on line 3
Thanks for the hard job! 🙂
Deactivate BuddyPress before you upgrade. It’s all in the upgrade instructions:
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/upgrading-from-10x/
Congratulations !
well done guys, you are moving well ahead !
strange thought having a couple thousands of small webmasters competing against facebook, xing & co 😉
Take a bow Andy. Thanks. I can attest that the upgrade from 1.x to 1.1 went without a hitch. Now to re-skin everything…. 🙂
One thing I noticed not mentioned (or it was so subtle I missed it) – what about the free BP themes that currently exist for the “old” way?
SWEET!!! Thanks Andy
@Andy
please check the link in your above post “ready for download”
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Verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry good!
But after installing I get this error on ALL pages but the backend:
Catchable fatal error: Object of class WP_Error could not be converted to string in /www/wpmu/wp-includes/wpmu-functions.php on line 107
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Really outstanding work. Thanks Andy, what a great release this is!
Very hot!
Great work! I’m loving it! A couple of questions though…
Are there any changes between 1.1 release and 1.1 candidate? I installed the 1.1 candidate and it is working will. Do not want to upgrade again if the release is the same as the candidate. Also, does bp-events not work with 1.1 since 1.1 does not use bpmember directory?
Congrats!
Looks great but is there a registration bug, or because I get a redirection to the WP login page… (I enabled new users…)
David,
Many thanks to Andy and all developers for this beautiful piece of free software. We owe so much to you!
@mrmail: Yes, a bunch of bug fixes, you should certainly upgrade to the final.
@Andrea_r: These will continue to work, but will only see a small number of the new features. I’d urge the designers to upgrade to the new setup as it comes with great benefits and is significantly easier.
Thank you Andy and BuddyPress Devs! Upgrading was a breeze – well, there was a forums hiccup but after log out and clearing cache to closing all browsers, worked fine again, phew! Thanks again all.
woohoo i’ve been using trunk and the update from the admin is AWESOME!
This is great: the extended group functions is precisely what I was hoping for.
Quick question: any upgrading steps from 1.1 beta? Can I just use svn (after backing everything up first, of course)? Or is there a better approach?
Again: nice work. Can’t wait to test it.
This is great. Many thanks to all involved. Looking forward to helping out with development from this point on. Got a big website on my hands that will inevitably (hopefully anyway) produce some interesting plugins and things. Andy et al you deserve to put your feet up… go for it!
Could you do a quick edit and put my full name in? 😀
Awesome! can’t wait to try the BuddyPress 1.1
Great work!
I have just upgraded our clients site and now nothing loads – just a white screen….help??
http://oppositesdo.com/
Congrats guys I know a lot of hard work into this! From what I am reading this is WordPress MU only compatible. Wasn’t this release supposed to work on regular wordpress or is that a different release planed for later?
Thanks a zillion.
What a list of features!
BuddyPress is tremendous…
Stay thirsty my friends!
And by “thirsty” I mean, stay “actively involved in BuddyPress development – posting in the forums, submitting tickets, creating plugins, etc.” 🙂
Congratualtions guys, fantastic work.. Some excellent additions to the build.
Nice, I was excited for this release, great job andy!:)
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Broke my site. Am investigating.
nice one, but i have an error.
i have the »bp-default« theme enabled, works gret with firefox but it doesn’t load the stylesheet with safari (Version 4.0.3 (5531.9)). both on mac.
anyone else having that problem?
I just recentely discovered BuddyPress (and wordpress tbh) but have been actively developing websites and social networks, and this looks promising.. Not the plugin itself perse, but the dedication, friendlyness and documentation surrounding this project.. Keep up the awesome work guys, and I hope to be able to contribute in the near future!
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