BuddyPress.org

disable BuddyPress Template Pack. It does not work with current BuddyPress

1.7 saw theme compatibity which was huge. That happened within 2 years. There has also been alot of work in the admin.

BuddyPress is a solid foundation to build incredable things. I prefer that than bloated buggy features that are unmaintainable.

http://modemlooper.me/buddypress-spam-link.zip

+1

I would like to offer two ideas for consideration:

1) Integrating basic anti-spam capabilities into core
2) Improving performance via fragment caching

1) I realize that there are already good plugins that deal with spam, both comment and multisite blogspam. But being spam, it is a cat and mouse game and I feel that buddypress should have some basic anti-spam protection out of the box. For example, a hidden text field via css as a honeypot. Users who are not at all comfortable coding or editing files can turn this on or have it on by default (rather than try to follow guides like this: http://www.pixeljar.net/2012/09/19/eliminate-buddypress-spam-registrations/)

2) This was touched on in the recent buddypress panel discussion:

(caching: 19min – 22min)

After spam, the biggest issue that I’ve heard is with performance. I think we should start to address this. For more info and details see this thread.

One of the challenges of using caching plugins like WT3 is that they don’t work for signed in members of buddypress sites. But a fragment caching system can still cache parts of the page which are ‘static’ and would not change as a result of the user activity.

Before a new version is out we go through every ticket and if progress on it hasn’t moved it gets punted.

The cpt feature could be done as a plugin.

@synaptic the development cycle for buddypress has been greatly accelerated in the recent revisions. the whole idea behind that is to foster more features and better functionality at a faster pace. nobody is trying to claim that buddypress is perfect. to the contrary we are saying that if you want to help, please do.

That blog post on WPMU is trolling. JJJ still leads this project.

@sooskriszta
No need in calling me out on this as I am not impressed at all with just a version number. A version number is not a big deal when there is not any major features added that I have not already found solutions for, so please save your pings next time. See:
http://wpmu.org/what-not-to-expect-in-buddypress-1-9/

idk whnever i have accidentally marked someone as a spammer i just un-mark using wangguard they will then show up as forced green status maybe that doesn’t unmark them in buddypress’s eyes. perhaps @jconti knows more.

Never done it myself, but i think comment_form accepts some arguments for that kinda of thing. Though since your question is more wordpress related, and you have buddypress installed I’d use buddypress activity comments rather than the wordpress ones anyway

oh, if you want to help you can add to the user codex. these are pages on helping users set up and run a BP site

The community decides the direction of BP not Automattic. JJJ is still project lead. Most decisions about BP happen in the IRC dev chats.

list of new features
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/roadmap

If you want new festures you can add a topic here and if it gets good feedback you can open an enhancement ticket on trac.

If you wish to sponsor features you can get a dev to create a new plugin

yeah that article was obviously written by someone who does not actually participate (or lurk for that matter) in the weekly meetings.

Fact is jjj actually put a ton of work into this release of budypress. The part he was working on i don’t even understand because, like yourself i am not a developer. but i do understand it enough to know its the kind of thing very few people may appreciate but makes those few (devs) lives much easier. i also know it took a lot of his hours to make it happen. 10up just today or yesterday announced that they devoting 100% of @helen ‘s time to wordpress so i don’t think it’s accurate to suggest that jjj won’t still be able to spend a good chunk of his time on buddypress.

like any open source project it’s success or failure is defined by the people who volunteer their time and efforts to build and promote it, so if you feel like you’d like to do that, a good place to start might be the regular weekly irc meetings or simply start following the BPdev blog which can be found here:

http://bpdevel.wordpress.com

i would say there should probably be an easier way to find that site on buddypres.org though.

:/