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!
Great work, thanks!
Hi! It’s great news since I’m about to use BuddyPress on at least 3 new projects from now own. I’d like to thank you all for the great effort! Cheers!
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Thanks for the update. I have just successfully updated my site to 1.1 and it works just great. Now I have to work on theme modification.
Great work but when I try to register as a new user, I get the following:
Fatal error: Call to undefined method BP_XProfile_Field::get_edit_html() in /home/swapshop/public_html/wpmu/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-xprofile/deprecated/bp-xprofile-deprecated.php on line 446
Any ideas people?
The company and team I started is fully vested in the health of MU, BP, and BB.
If they were ended today, I would immediately fork them asap. Not to worry I know that will not happen! Yay!
Our model focuses on using these as tools for our ideas. They play a VERY important roll in our model, and it’s imperative that any ‘feature’ we help debug, patch, or develop be part of the main distro.
Personally, I am committed (ha! pun intended) to the success of these products.
btw, R-A-Y you DA MAN!
Is it just me or is anyone else finding it virtually impossible to get this new release to work with a premium wordpress theme as a main theme?
It’s like Frankenstein’s laboratory on a bad day in my theme folders!
On the surface it seems to be straight forward, in reality it’s a nightmare of epic proportions. I’d be interested to hear if anyone else has managed to crack it yet (premium wordpress theme with custom buddypress member theme).
@simonbennett: Make sure you are following the theme upgrade instructions (specifically about using WordPress themes and how that works with 1.1):
https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/upgrading-a-buddypress-1-0-theme-for-buddypress-1-1/
Hi Andy,
today I liked to delete my whole wpmu / buddypress on my server to get a fresh install, but it didn’t work.
I deleted the tables (no problem) and tried to delete the installation. This worked exept the avatars of sers and groups, I already had uploaded.
Why can’t delete he avatars?
Tanks
Rita
Andy,
I followed the instructions to the letter. I even tried putting the css in one single file to no avail. I love your work and really appreciate your efforts, but this is proving almost impossible without the kind of skills you have.
I’ve been at this all day, every time I get close another problem pops up. I’m no code guru, but I’m no novice either. If it’s this hard for me it kind of limits your market as most bloggers and wordpressers have become accustomed to pretty much “plug and play”.
This is more “plug, rip, hack, hope, play, scream, shout and give in”.
Seriously, it’s THAT bad, I looked at Joomla for a split second!!!
BP transforms the way MU and blogs that use it.
For plug and play, you cannot use an existing theme simply because it has no information about BP and it’s actions. Your theme wasn’t capable of nor knew about BP, most likely.
Since your theme isn’t BP ready, your faced with the decision to be that first adopter and lead into battle with the changes necessary to make it ‘BP ready’.
It’s entirely your choice if you’d like to use Joomla, but if they go through instrumental change you’ll be at the same cross-roads.
I honestly think that once you come to terms that ‘ok this is going to take time’ (as all new things usually do), and break down the issue slowly one by one; eventually you’ll get to your goal (complete site). This site, the forums, the devs, and other fans are here to help. We’re really all in the same boat (100%).
This isn’t going to be a 1 day affair.
So can we expect you to be part of the community? Sharing the advice, solutions, and pain your going through?
@Jason,
LOL.. great post…
I’d rather poke out my eyeballs with hot needles that defect from WordPress to Joomla, I just need a few pointers and a little bit of guidance.
I can get 1.1 working but I lose all (2,500) previously uploaded avatars and cannot upload new ones. In addition the admin bar goes crazy.
Simon, I know, it isn’t funny for you, but I laughed. I cannot delete avatars and you lost them.
But how can you loose them, when I can’t delete them? Did you look on your server, if they are still there? If yes, it just may be some code to show them again.
Andy: Where ist the css to change the buddyhome? I want to make everything blue that is orange.
Thanks,
Rita
Start a forum post, and I’ll hop right in with some pointers. And for the record, I’m theming atm and can prob help 😀
J,
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/11-missing-avatars
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Great job guys! Looking forward to working with this!
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-in-buddypress-11-will-not-work
Any ideas how I can find the problem?
I just installed at 1and1 and get a 500 internal server error when I try to activate?
Any ideas?
Please help…
i just updated to the latest version and the whole thing is messed up.. it shows error ” fatal error cannot declare bp_messages.php” and now after i deleted the whole buddypress plugin i cant even log in to my dashboard. What happen is i got this error from firefox ” never ending loop cannot load website”.
@JasonG
I’m an ambitious noob to MU, but like a challenge. What would be your workflow to integrate BP functionality into a Thesis, Hybrid or Headway child theme?
Not having tried, I was assuming I would take the framework theme from BP and incorporate what I needed in existing child theme templates or create new ones. I think the lack of documentation is what would make this process particularly painful.
Are there any good efforts on such documentation, specifically for theming?
Getting in on the ground floor is always so exciting (painful, nerve-wracking and tiring). Guess I need a forum post. 🙂
Yeah!! Thanks so much!! that’s GREAT!! and happy to see the new bbPress forum integration!!
I still need to upgrade to MU 2.8.4a , but I’m on 2.8.2. I’m using BP 1.0, and in all of the upgrade instructions, it says to deactivate the BuddyPress plugin.
I see no plugins at all when I go to the plugins section in my WP Dashboard (I haven’t installed any), and when I click on “Site Admin| BuddyPress,” I don’t see a way to deactivate the plugin.
How do I upgrade if I can’t deactivate the plugin? Should I just try something (like overwriting the files) and see if it works?
Best,
Dainis
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[Recommendations]
I think the best course of action is to start fresh with 1.1 and start importing everything one by one.
This includes reworking wp themes. I believe for the most basic themes, the codex recommendations
are great and will help out a lot.
[Methodologies]
With custom setups, I’ve seen a few approaches.
The first approach uses the recommended codex behavior, in which the order is: bp-parent -> bp-default -> your-theme (like bp-default)
The second approach uses the reverse parent order: your-theme -> bp-parent-copy -> bp-default
I am personally creating a custom parent theme due to my unique layout: bp-parent-custom -> my-custom-chile-theme
Another approach which is great is to start with the skeleton.
To quote JJJ, “ach theme/template can only name off one parent, but that doesn’t stop the parent theme/template from having its own parent also.”
[When to use which method?]
Simple theme? Use #1.
Simple WP theme? Use #2.
Complex WP theme? Use #3 or #4.
Starting from scratch? Use #4.
[Important Note]
One important note that I see many many people trip over is trying to load all the theme logic at once.
Whether your integrating or starting from scratch, what you need to do is move piece by piece.
For instance, say your modifying [profile/index.php] or your [childtheme/custompage.php] start with adding one line.
[ get_header(); ] and work your way down your theme from there. You also NEED to make sure you properly use function_exists().
Most people don’t have any debugging or logging support in their compiled PHP runtimes, and in these cases what you get are
white screens of death.
[My Final piece of advice]
Time. It’s going to take time. We’re all so used of things working flawlessly. The more complex ‘things’ we create and use, the more work and time necessary to use these ‘things’. Luckily there is a community, one which I turn to all the time. Don’t by shy, pose the question!
Here are a couple of posts which may help as well.
[Codex]
codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/
[Parent-Child (see Detective’s comment)]
buddypress.org/forums/topic/sites-using-parentchild-theme-architecture
[General Theme info]
buddypress.org/forums/topic/details-about-the-new-theme-architecture
@JasonG
Wow! Thanks, I’ll move my questions to the forums.
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Hello, I do not understand why when I install BuddyPress 1.1, any user can register. There is an error in wp-signup.php and register.
Can you clarify me a moment the ideas?
I’m doing the opposite approach and just using the default theme and rewriting the css and html. I tried moving BP into a wp theme and it was too much work. Easier to move wp them into BP
heres the profile page of the site i’m working on. It takes work but as you can see you can change everything
http://img.skitch.com/20091002-jng75aw2g5mybqnb4q1w5jcw8x.jpg
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I have the same problem as mike above
Fatal error: Call to undefined method BP_XProfile_Field
when trying to register as a new user
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So happy!!! Excellent work!
Hi!
After the upgrade:
1) a complete misunderstanding of the idea of a new theme – absolutely not transparent structure
2) all groups lost avatars
3) If the avatar does not – instead of the “invisible” frame with the text “avatar ..”
4) memory consumption on the main page risen from 18.5Mb to 26.9 (45% !!!), the rest of the situation is better – has increased by 30%
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Hi!
I have installed a new website with WordPress 2.8.4a and the last version of Buddypress: http://www.latuasquadra.com
When I try to create a new user no work:
Fatal error: Call to undefined method BP_XProfile_Field::get_edit_html()
Also, default theme no work, now I have installed a new theme Bruce but is always the same.
Please, tell me how to fix this problem.
Tankyou!
I have the same problem as mike above
Fatal error: Call to undefined method BP_XProfile_Field
when trying to register as a new user
Same problem as Mike & zazinteractive:
Fatal error: Call to undefined method BP_XProfile_Field
tried with upgrade as well as new install. Both same problem.
Alexandr: Make sure you have read the theme upgrade documents if you do not understand the new structure.
See the forums for group avatar issues, this is normally due to permissions. There is a thread with a script you can run.
Memory consumption should not be that high, sounds like you have something else consuming memory. If you are worried about memory consumption you should enable some opt caching such as eAccelerator or xcache on your server.
If you are experiencing the “Fatal error: Call to undefined method BP_XProfile_Field” error, please upgrade to 1.1.1.
Ok! Now is already!!!
Tank yo so much!!! 😉
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i cannot get the global forum directory to show, can someone help me? catherine@snapstart.com
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@Jason,
LOL.. great post…
I’d rather poke out my eyeballs with hot needles that defect from WordPress to Joomla, I just need a few pointers and a little bit of guidance.