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BuddyPress.org BuddyPress.org went through another serious clean-up effort in 2012. It now runs a minimal set of plugins, with an emphasis on supporting the project proper. BuddyPress.org’s group forums were retired. They were a fun experiment, but largely confusing to users and a moderation nightmare for site staffers. BuddyPress.org also experienced another redesign, taking much […]

This post was written by James Davidson, a member of the BuddyPress community and Digital Strategy VP at 7Summits Agency in Milwaukee, WI. In the spring of 2011, Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) approached 7Summits for some assistance with the University’s social media efforts. Like most of introductory meetings, we didn’t know what to expect; […]

BuddyPress 1.6.2 is a compatibility release, and fixes a few small issues with WordPress 3.5. If you’re running BuddyPress 1.5/1.6 and are updating to WordPress 3.5, this is a safe and easy update. Details: Milestone Tickets Closed

In the video below, Cyri Jones talks about BuddyCamp Vancouver and does a quick summary of how he’s used BuddyPress at BCIT Burnaby. We were blown away at how well done this video was; it’s a great success story, and does a great job at explaining in simple terms why you might want to use […]

The first ever BuddyCamp is happening right now at BCIT Campus in Vancouver, BC. The whole BuddyPress core team (minus Paul) is here, along with WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, and we all just participated in a panel discussion on the social web and BuddyPress’s place in it. If you weren’t able to make it out […]

If you’ve ever attended a WordCamp, you know how valuable – and fun – it can be to spend a day or two learning from like-minded WordPress users. Now, for the first time, fans of BuddyPress have an event all their own. BuddyCamp Vancouver 2012, the very first gathering of its type dedicated to BuddyPress, […]

Boone, Paul, and I, are excited to announce we’ve promoted r-a-y to be the newest member of the BuddyPress Core team! r-a-y has been involved with BuddyPress since the early days, and has been one of our strongest forum moderators since the very beginning. He’s been diligently iterating on his core patches and contributions, so […]

When we were beginning development on BuddyPress 1.6, we had the idea of building a new child theme for BuddyPress Default – something that would show off some of BP’s coolest features by highlighting a single of BP’s several components. The BuddyPress core team put out a call for community contributors to take the lead […]

BuddyPress 1.6.1 is now available! This version contains fixes for a few edge case bugs that came up after BuddyPress 1.6 was released last week, including: full compatibility with Multisite installations using NOBLOGREDIRECT; a regression in one of our avatar functions that caused avatars to be malformed in some themes; and a load order issue […]

BuddyPress 1.6 “Lucali” is here! Version 1.6 is a major feature release for BuddyPress, introducing several hundred of bug fixes, dozens of enhancements, and several major, all-new features. Whether you’ve never used BuddyPress before or are a longtime BP guru, you’re in for a treat. BuddyPress 1.6 is the most feature-rich, secure, stable, and fun-to-use […]