BuddyPress 2.4, “Pietro”, has been released, and includes cover photos for profiles and groups. Also released today, an update for older versions of BuddyPress, due to a vulnerability, “that may allow privilege escalation for logged-in users.”
BuddyPress 4.2.0 is out. This important maintenance and security release addresses a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in addition to a privilege escalation vulnerability.
If you’re looking for a BuddyPress theme, WeFoster has a guide for the best premium options currently available. The BuddyPress theme market has its challenges, and there are areas that need improvement. However, if you aren’t going to build a BuddyPress theme from scratch, this guide will point you to the best ones to start with.
The witty and charismatic lead of the BuddyPress and bbPress projects, John James Jacoby, recently announced leaving Automattic. Now reveals he’s joined Team 10up.
BuddyPress recently updated to version 4.3.0. It’s a security and maintenance release, so be sure to upgrade if you are using the plugin on any of your sites.
If you use BuddyPress, check out the BuddyPress Default Data plugin which recently released a new (1.2) version. BPDD will create lots of users, messages, friends, connections, groups, topics, activity items, and profile data. This is very useful for testing, kind of like FakerPress but for BuddyPress.
BuddyPress 3.0.0 “Apollo” is now officially out. Along with a variety of internal improvements, this major release adds WP-CLI support and JavaScript-powered templates for full integration with WordPress’ Customizer.
