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but it’s still prone to being buggy. I’ll say

It’s reasonably stable for judicious development on while mentally noting areas that appear buggy, but one caveat , progress with it’s development is fast and furious :0 so update your repo checkout often to keep up with fixes as I experienced recently.

@DJPaul can you just confirm or settle that confusion on what platform 1.3 will require as far as I’m aware it’s simply the WP 3.* stream rather than 3.1

Edit// hmm just viewed that twitter link, slightly confused now. I have 1.3 albeit a trunk checkout prior to John Jame’s changes that runs on 3.0.4 what has changed or did it really never run ‘fully’ on 3.*. Also wasn’t aware Nacin was a BP developer how is it he knows better than you what BP will run on

You will need to add such things to BuddyPress, yes. If you come up with any good patches for core, I’d love to look at them.

And I thought BP 1.3 just required 3.*

I have a test install of BP 1.3 running on WP 3.0.4 and another running 1.3 on WP 1.3 RC 2

@DJPaul will need to confirm that comment in the thread you link to.

As for release date, you should note the blog post by John James where he announced he was proceeding with some major refactoring of the core, the open tickets is not really indicative of the amount of work left to complete with this particular cycle, I doubt that 1.3 will be ready this side of Feb and ought to go to a RC stage for a little more rigorous testing for this particular release.

I would have thought regardless of release dates one can and should be starting to test ones themes / plugins under 1.3/3.1

I agree, Gravity Forms is well worth the money, even with the newish pricing scheme. The about-to-be-released 1.5 version even includes the option to replace the BP registration form and adds PayPal support and such (a developer license is needed for those). As far as I know there’s no inbuilt support for custom post types yet, but even using custom fields, coding a recipe plugin should be very easy.

I use Gravity Forms to do this, although you could also look into TDO mini forms (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tdo-mini-forms/) if you’re not keen on spending any money. I will say this… the GA plugin is *the* best plugin I’ve ever splurged on, bar none.

I love the theme layout, but how do you add color to it?

You could possible use the group docs plugin or create your own component or even use something like gravity forms.

http://www.buddyboss.com/bp-group-documents-buddypress-plugin-review

Here’s an example of a BP recipe site http://thepioneerwoman.com/tasty-kitchen/

BuddyPress Codex

Is there a way to show the group avatar in the activity feed when the plugin pulls a post from an external blog. It looks a bit unprofessional to have just a blank space there instead of an image.

Thanks,
Nick

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