We’ve got one more 1.2 release candidate ready for testing (zip | svn).
This should be the last pre-release version of 1.2, we hope to have the final version released very early next week.
Don’t forget that you can also play your part in testing by signing up at our BuddyPress Test Drive community. This is currently running 1.2-rc3.
If you are upgrading from an earlier pre-release version then you can just overwrite must delete it and then re-upload the BuddyPress plugin directory. Instructions for upgrading test installations from previous versions of BuddyPress are also available.
As before you can find a list of known issues and a place to post bugs via the BuddyPress Trac installation.
Please do not post bugs in the comments as they may be missed.
Update: Please make sure you delete any old pre-release versions of BuddyPress before uploading this version. You also DO NOT need to move any themes to wp-content/themes. WordPress knows that the BuddyPress default is in the plugin folder.
We are using 1.1.3 and it is a perfect timing to upgrade to 1.2 because we are right now in the prozess of adding new features to the website. I really appreciate your effort and your work on Buddypress. It is a great Plug-In. Thank you!
Wow! kudos to you and the team . Can’t wait for the stable!
There is no ticket in trac for 1.2 currently and I hope, this Rc will not cause any more tickets.
Looking forward to stable earlier next week 🙂
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Hey Congrats….!!! Waiting for stable version…
Gr8 work Andy and team 🙂
Lovely!
Hope 1.2 will contain NO bugs ’cause of such a big number of RC versions..
Great works!
After updating from rc2 to rc3:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_dtheme_show_on_frontpage() in /mnt/web6/30/61/5183661/htdocs/portfolio/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/home.php on line 9
Have commented the line out and removed the loop, works for me this way… but, what’s the problem?
http://www.lutheasalom.de
Cheers
Awesome work team. Great to see so much progress – can’t wait to install the release version and also upload some more child themes!
SlaFFik: that makes no sense at all…
Yeah!!!! I’m testing it now, and it’s lookin’ mighty fine!
Thank you, off to test! 🙂
awesome as always, andy.
indebted,
~k~
Cool! The release arrives just in time for a new site theme we’re building based on Buddypress.
madlyfe – my words have no sense or RC? I was ironic, ’cause everyone knows – it can’t be without any mistakes.
Wow! I just installed the 1.2 rc 3… . Wow! The new BP home theme out of the box is well thought out and looks great!
nah i read it wrong.. i thought you were saying that the more RC’s = more bugs… sorry im retarded..
I get the same error as Dave.
Dave, you running WP 3.0 bleeding edge?
For me, 1.2 RC3 works with WPMU, creates an error with WP 3.0 bleeding edge
Looks like the BuddyPress Default 1.2-rc3 doesn’t have a themes options page for choosing blog or activity for the front page …
@Chris
I’m running on 2.9.1
As I say the prob seems to be with the theme not having (or showing) theme options. Using an early theme which I saved under a different name, I have no problem
@chris @dave
We are currently discussing it here. Share your config/setup.
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/php-fatal-error-rc2-rc3
I’m getting the same thing as Dave – have no idea why it is doing this. Dave have you opened a Trac ticket on this?
Dave,
Delete home.php from the themes dir or simply re-up the whole buddypress folder. Overwriting the old folder leaves old nonsense in place.
Scratch that. I may have installed extra stuff into the 1.2-rc3 folder. Double checking now.
I too am getting the same fatal error as Dave. Hmmm….
P.S. Am I right in thinking you don’t need to install the bp-fault theme into your themes folder? Wondering if that might be the cause?
Scratch that last comment. I’ve noticed there’s no home.php file in the default theme folder. Will trying installing home.php from previous RC and see what happens…
Right. I think I’ve figured out the reason for the fatal error people (myself included) have been experiencing. The old RC1 or 2 had a home.php file in the default theme but RC3 does not. When overriding the buddypress plugins folder, my home.php file was not being deleted from the default theme folder. Deleting it from the folder now makes my site work as it should.
Cheers
Richard
damn I just see that there is a new version, I’ll take this one, thank you.
Only the sidebar can contain widgets in bp1.2, this is different en not backwards compatible with an earlier version. Why is this?
Really looking forward to the 1.2 final. Great job with the development of BuddyPress!!
Thanks for working this issue out, I knew it wasn’t an issue with the code. I have updated the post.
@Sannie: There is a plugin you can install alongside BuddyPress to make it backwards compatible with 1.1. This is in the upgrade instructions linked in the post: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-backwards-compatibility/
@Andy – I have opened a Track ticket though on the fact that there is no option to choose the blog/activity on the front page. Other than that, it seems like a beautiful working system ready for release!
Actually, I have found a weird link in the header nav – http://example.com/BP_HOME_BLOG_SLUG/
Obviously that points to a page not found – is that an error or is that something that is just happening on mine (fresh buddypress 1.2 rc3 plugin install)
Hi there Andy – I probably shouldn’t put this one here, but I’ve noticed that the uploading a group avatar/image function isn’t working properly (not on my install at least). When I upload an image for a group avatar (whether sized at 150px x 150px or otherwise), the image doesn’t show, I see a heading “Crop Avatar” with the next line immediately beneath it saying “Avatar to cropAvatar preview” (exactly like that); there’s then a gap where it seems the image should appear followed by a “Crop image” button. If I click that, I get this message: “There was a problem cropping the avatar, please try uploading it again”. Trying again doesn’t help.
Is anyone else having this problem?
Cheers
Richard
P.S. Small issues like that aside, I wanted to say that BuddyPress 1.2 is superb. Great work. And thank you!
nzde: Sounds like your server doesn’t have the GD image library, or you have incorrect image upload directory permissions.
I installed the RC2 version and had no issues that I’m aware of.
Although I barely noticed a difference between RC2 and RC3, I’m happy to report that both have been working well for me and I am looking forward to the final release of 1.2. 🙂
@andy — something you may want to note for the final release.
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/svn-cruft-finding-its-way-into-v-21rc3?replies=1#post-36782
i’m testing it
Looking forward to 1.2 final!
I cannot post on the forum, no matter what I do, so I simply have to say this here – the upload images issue is still there. They do end up in folders on the server, but they aren’t accessible for the backend. Sorry if this is considered to be spam by anyone, I do not intend to come accross as annoying.
“No option to choose the blog/activity on the front page. ”
+1
The admin bar cannot be hidden to users who aren’t logged in RC3 – it worked okay in RC2
@notbad – The option to choose whats on the front page has reverted to fit with the normal wordpress structure. You can now go to Settings > Reading and choose a static page of Activity or your latest blog posts. All works well, we just weren’t notified of the change.
fabulous work!
There’s a typo in the backwards compatibility plugin: in the directory bp-core, bp-core-wdigets.php should be bp-core-widgets.php
yea… the theme option to select blog or activity stream at the front page is missing… any fix for it?
@Diesel Laws,
thank you for answer =), but i cant find it in ‘Reading Settings’ =(
@Jitto P.Jose ,
must read Diesel Laws post.. (up)
@notbad
Thanks for the help.. Now its work well.. but the blog option go to the right end in top menu… Is there any way to bring int next to home?
@Jitto P.Jose, sorry, i don’t know.
Question: where you find this option!? – (cos i can’t find it there) !?