BuddyPress 1.7 “Totonno” has arrived, and it’s our best version yet!
What’s New in 1.7
BuddyPress 1.7 is a major feature release, containing hundreds of bugfixes and dozens of new features. We’ll show off a few of our favorites below. Want to see a full changelog for 1.7? Check it out on the Codex.
Theme Compatibility
BuddyPress’s social features add new kinds of content to your WordPress site: groups, profiles, and so on. Until now, displaying that content has required building or finding a BP-compatible theme – one of the biggest hurdles to using BuddyPress. Version 1.7 makes this a thing of the past. Using a feature we call “theme compatibility”, BuddyPress can display its content within the context of any WordPress theme – no modifications required. Here are a few screenshots showing BP running on a few popular themes:
Not satisfied with the way it looks out of the box? Not a problem. BuddyPress still provides a sophisticated, modular templating system, which you can easily customize in your own theme. Theme developers and designers can learn much more about theme compat on the BuddyPress codex.
Group Administration
If you’ve run a BuddyPress-powered community site, you know that groups are a powerful way for members to connect. But there’s been no way for site administrators to manage groups. BP 1.7 introduces a brand new set of Group Administration panels on your WordPress Dashboard. Now BP admins can bulk-delete groups, edit group settings, and manage group membership without ever leaving wp-admin.
A Better Installation Experience
BuddyPress makes it easy to add social features to your site, and BP 1.7 streamlines the process more than ever. We’ve removed the installation wizard in favor of a totally automated setup – just hit Activate, and we’ll handle the rest. On new installations, only the Activity and Extended Profiles components are activated, helping you to start small and grow your community features bit by bit. And, following in WordPress’s footsteps, we’ve added About and Credits screens, helping you to get up to date on the BuddyPress project.
Springtime Goodies
BuddyPress 1.7 is codenamed “Totonno”, after the legendary Brooklyn pizza joint. Totonno’s is just a few blocks from the Cyclone and the Coney Island boardwalk, and there’s no better end to a lovely spring day than to indulge in what may be the world’s greatest pepperoni pie. With spring finally coming to Brooklyn, we think it’s appropriate to honor a pizza institution with what we think will be a watershed BuddyPress release.
The BuddyPress Community Rocks
Hundreds of developers, designers, and community volunteers have put thousands of hours into this version of BuddyPress. When you use BP, you’re standing on their shoulders. The following individuals contributed patches during the 1.7 release cycle:
aesqe, apeatling, borkweb, calin, chouf1, chrisclayton, cnorris23, ddean, DennisSmolek, Dianakc, dontdream, empireoflight, enej, ethitter, fanquake, gmax21, hnla, humanshell, imath, Jacek, jag1989, jbobich, jkudish, jpsb, karmatosed, MacPresss, magnus78, markjaquith, Maty, mercime, michael.ecklund, modemlooper, nacin, netweb, rogercoathup, sboisvert, sbrajesh, slaFFik, steve7777, tiraeth, will_c, wpdennis, xt4v.
Enjoy!
Do you have questions about the latest BuddyPress release? Check out the BuddyPress Codex – our growing collection of official documentation – and especially the pages in the 1.7 category. Volunteers are also standing by in our active support and discussion forums. If you’ve found a bug in BuddyPress, or if you want to contribute code to the next release, our development home is buddypress.trac.wordpress.org
You might not be able to make it to Coney Island this summer, but we think that BuddyPress 1.7 “Totonno” is (almost) just as good. Download it today from the wordpress.org plugin repository, or from your WordPress Dashboard.
Bienvenue à Totonno !!!
“Bravo” for the great work 😉
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Gratz for release 🙂
Congratulations Team BP, and thanks for your dedication, it is very much appreciated.
Great job guys ! Many thanks for your perseverance and courage.
For those who need some dashboard translations around BP welcome messages, see this ticket, with patch who arrived 1 hour too late this afternoon (UTC+1) to be in 1.7
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4922
Awesome sauce. Thanks for everyone’s hard work! 2nd!
We’re very happy to see this. Congrats to Boone and the rest of the team!
Mhmmm…. pizza!
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Great work guys! Wondering where are the icons on the screenshots 😀
Buddypress is new wave of education.
Big congrats guys and gals! Really looking forward to sinking my teeth into this one. I’ve got a funny feeling bbPress 2.3 isn’t far behind 😉
Great work ! Big ‘thank you’ Buddypress team 🙂
Congrats on the release and thank you to all those who have contributed so that the rest of us have this powerful resource at our disposal!
WHAT BRENT SAID! Thank you, BuddyPress!
Congratulations Boone B. Gorges, John James Jacoby, Paul Gibbs and the whole team for this great release.
Thanks Thanks Thanks to all BP developers, designers, and community volunteers for this wonderful work!
Awesome work guys! Congrats and thanks to all the people that make it possible 🙂
Thank you for delivering such a great software product. 🙂
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Thanks guys!! It was great meeting the team in Miami. I guess you meant it when you said soon—you rock!!
congratulation to all Bp developers and Bp community!
1.7 is really something!
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Sweeet! I have waited for the 1.7 release like I wait for Xmas:)
Truly awesome release with the long waited theme compatibility. Good bye BP theme comp. pack. You guys rock.
I can’t get over how incredible the theme compatibility is. After I updated a testing site, I spent the next 2-3 hours just throwing about 30-40 different themes at it from the repository. Even them fun themes like Buttercream that I could never imagine BP being on. I was amazed at how well it integrated into so many different themes. There were minor CSS issues, but over it was amazing.
Theme compatibility really is a landmark, killer feature for BP. It almost feels like a completely different product now with a huge amount of flexibility. I really do think the game has changed with this.
Thanks BP crew! A job well done!
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After a not-so-pleasant experience with BuddyPress in 2011, my choice was to abandon the whole idea of using BuddyPress all together. Well, now I’m back and willing to give this another try.
So far, all I’ve done is install the plugin but the installation of 1.7 is already a smoother process – an encouraging sign.
Could someone here point me in the direction of a great user guide to BuddyPress? I’m looking for an in-depth and robust tutorial covering all the features and options.
Buddypress is awesome. For the devs or any that knows, what kind of backend do the big social networks use? Do sites like Facebook, Yelp etc. have admin backends that look something like this? I’m wondering what theirs looks like just out of curiousity and to know what buddypress lacks/how it compares to building a site from scratch.
[…] Erjon Mehmeti, WordPress Theme Designer & DeveloperWordPress Theme Designer & Developer1 vote by Andreas VichrWas an article about BuddyPress themes in Speckyboy:http://speckyboy.com/2010/02/19/…The only theme that looks a bit ok is this one here: http://buddyboss.comWhat I will suggest is to find a normal WP theme that you like and modify it for BuddyPress.You can add payment systems or premium membership area using a free plugin like s2member or a paid one like whishlist member.Both plugins will allow you to integrate a payment system.Embed Quote1+ Comments Loading… • Report • 21 Jul, 2011 Nick Ciske, WordPress/PHP DeveloperWordPress/PHP DeveloperAs of BuddyPress 1.7, the answer is: "any theme you want".http://… […]
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