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Last but not least! This is the final episode of our post series about the new direction we plan to take regarding the BuddyPress project. If you’re just discovering this series, we advise you to read about the 4 first episodes of it.

This is the number 4 of our post series about the new direction we plan to take regarding plugin maintenance and evolutions. Our first post was about shared our new purpose, the second one explained how we think we can better organize the BuddyPress plugin, and the third one dealt with BuddyPress’ next features. It’s now time to analyze the feedback you shared with us here & there about BuddyPress’ user interfaces.

Hello, here‘s the third post of our series about the new direction we plan to take regarding plugin maintenance and evolutions. In our first post we shared with you our new purpose « Get together safely, in your own way, in WordPress »; in our second post we talked about how we think we can better organize the BuddyPress plugin. Let’s see how the feedback you shared with us here & there contributed to the BuddyPress features roadmap we‘re thinking about tackling in 2023 & 2024.

Immediately available is BuddyPress 11.2.0. This maintenance release fixes 6 bugs. For details on the changes, please read the 11.2.0 release notes.

Update to BuddyPress 11.2.0 today in your WordPress Dashboard, or by downloading from the WordPress.org plugin repository.

Many thanks to 11.2.0 contributors 

mystichrome, dave.pullig, r-a-y, armaanfromatg, boonebgorges & imath.

Hi, here‘s the second post of our series about the new direction we plan to take regarding plugin maintenance and evolutions. In our first post we shared with you our new purpose « Get together safely, in your own way, in WordPress », let’s see how the feedback you shared with us here & there helped shape the new way, I believe, we should use to reorganize and simplify BuddyPress.

Hello! This post is the first in a series of five posts in which we’ll outline the new direction we plan to take regarding plugin maintenance and evolutions. After some introductory words, we‘ll focus on the new BuddyPress purpose that I believe we should adopt for years to come.

We haven‘t forgotten that, at the end of 2021, we had some conversations (here & here) about this « difficult to answer with a few words » question. These happened once the plugin’s active installs statistics went a bit under 200.000. Our WordPress plugin directory page’s “active installations” value suddenly changed from “200,000+” to “100,000+”—though the actual number only changed from just over 200.000 to about 190.000 active installation–making this decline seem pretty spectacular 📉. It was nevertheless a great opportunity to think together about how the plugin should evolve now that 15 years have passed since its birth.

The BuddyPress Core Team is very happy to be represented at the Contributor Day the french WordPress community is organizing in Paris on April 20, 2023. Here’s a link to a translated page of the event schedule (Hours are in Central European Summer time).

Today is a very special day for the BuddyPress open source project: 15 years ago, Andy pushed the first code commit on BP Trac. To remember the “whys” & the important “whos” of our early days, I advise you to read (again) the great post John wrote when we reached 10.

Immediately available is BuddyPress 11.1.0. This maintenance release fixes 3 bugs. For details on the changes, please read the 11.1.0 release notes.

Update to BuddyPress 11.1.0 today in your WordPress Dashboard, or by downloading from the WordPress.org plugin repository.

Many thanks to 11.1.0 contributors 

1benk1, webmasterfreya, casper99 & imath.

Happy new year & best wishes for Twenty Twenty-Three 🥳

The BuddyPress Core Team

BuddyPress 11.0.0 “La Scala” is now available for download from the WordPress.org plugin repository, or right from your WordPress Dashboard.