BuddyPress 1.6 Beta 2 is now available for download. BP 1.6 is just around the corner, and you can help us get there sooner by testing the latest beta version today!
The shiniest new features in BuddyPress 1.6 are: the new Activity Management panels in the Dashboard; Akismet integration for the Activity stream; improved SEO in the form of canonical redirects; full integration into the WordPress Toolbar; and Extended Profile field visibility. If you’re a developer or site admin testing BP 1.6-beta2 in a development environment, you might want to spend a bit of extra time on these new features.
As always, we recommend that you do not run beta software in production environments. If you think you’ve found a bug, or have feedback, please leave a message on the support forums or report a bug on our bugtracker.
Download BuddyPress 1.6 Beta 2 (zip) from the wordpress.org plugin repository.
I’m curious if you guys are going to do anything in this release, (or even, every) to make it easier for non rocket scientist developers to deploy buddypress?
cheers
Frank
Frank – I’m dubious of the “rocket scientist” comment, but we do our best to make BuddyPress easier to use with every release. If you have specific suggestions on how BP could be improved in this respect, you’re invited to join the development conversation at http://bpdevel.wordpress.com or http://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org.
Frank, I have little or no programming experience and I find *deploying* BuddyPress very easy.
Hi Frank,
If you haven’t tried BuddyPress recently, I’d give it another go. The installation process is MUCH easier now than with the early releases, and if you know how to install a WordPress plugin (not exactly rocket science) then you’ll have no problems with BuddyPress.
Thanks to everybody who made it possible,
I was just building my first BuddyPress website on Beta 1 and I’ will upgrade tomorrow..
Let you guys know if i’ll find something strange.
Great guys! Your work is making a lot of people happy! Remember that, even if it doesn’t seems like it 🙂
Thanks guys, Beta1 seemed pretty smooth anyway 🙂
Thanks to everyone who has helped make buddypress possible, as otherwise it would not have been possible for me to create my concept for an online community by myself. Your hard work is making a difference to multitudes of people across the world.
I was wondering Do you need wordpress MU for buddypress? Or if you don’t NEED it, what type of functionality does it add to your site rather than just wordpress not wordpress MU?