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The first beta for BuddyPress 2.0 is now ready for testing! BuddyPress 2.0 is shaping up to be a very exciting upgrade, and is currently on track for our an on-time release in mid-April. But we need your help! If you are a plugin or theme developer, or if you are running a BuddyPress site […]

Today marks the first official day of BuddyPress 2.0’s development cycle. As such, we want to keep everyone in the loop about what we’re planning for 2.0, and what our release dates are, so you can better plan your sites, updates, contributions, and testing. Features: bp-forums retirement #5351 (johnjamesjacoby) WordPress Rewrite Rules API integration #4954 (johnjamesjacoby) Move XProfile visibility […]

BuddyPress 1.0 launched just over 5 years ago, and it’s quite a different piece of software today than it was back then. We’ve added (and retired) several components, reinvented the way it integrates into WordPress’s themes, and even changed our logo color (from orange to red.) BuddyPress wouldn’t be what it is without the feedback […]

We’re excited to start 2014 on a happy note: Mathieu Viet, better known online as imath, is joining the BuddyPress core team. Mathieu has contributed extensively to BuddyPress, particularly over the 1.8 and 1.9 development cycles. He has written many popular BP plugins, and is a prominent member of the French WordPress community. The core […]

Today the BuddyPress team is excited to announce the release of BuddyPress 1.9 “Sammy”. What’s new in 1.9 Notifications BuddyPress has always come packaged with the ability to alert members of relevant goings-on. Things like friend requests, private messages, and group invitations, have been routed through a very simple core process that alerts members via […]

I’m pleased to announce the release of my book ‘BuddyPress Theme Development‘ published by Packt. This book serves as a guide (with practical tutorials) on how to make the most out of BuddyPress with custom templates and styles. It gives insight into the current state of BuddyPress theme creation and gently leads readers through creating […]

This report presents the results from the 2013 BuddyPress Codex Survey held from August 16 – 26, 2013. One hundred seventy-eight developers from thirty-six countries responded to provide valuable information about BP usage and documentation requirements. Thank you all. A. Background At the beginning of the development cycle for BP version 1.9, @hnla and @mercime […]

As part of the work on the upcoming 1.9 release, we’re putting effort into improving the BuddyPress documentation. There have been many great new features and improvements to BuddyPress over the last few releases and we need to bring the documentation up to date. We’ve launched the Buddypress Codex Survey. The survey is already providing […]

The BuddyPress team is proud to announce BuddyPress 1.8 “Di Fara”! What’s new in 1.8 BuddyPress 1.8 is a major feature release, containing many bugfixes and dozens of new features. Some of these items are highlighted below, and a full changelog for 1.8 is available on the BP Codex. Better theme integration Since BuddyPress 1.7, […]

BuddyPress 1.7.3 is now available. This is a security and maintenance release, and we urge all installations running BP 1.5 or later to upgrade immediately. Version 1.7.3 includes fixes for the following: A cross-site scripting vulnerability in the way that success/error messages are stored and then displayed A bug that caused Set-Cookie headers to be […]