ByDan Knauss
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BuddyPress developers will be interested in this BuddyPress User Profile Completion plugin that allows admins to decide what a complete profile means and then enforce it for all users.
Boone Gorges shares that BuddyPress 2.8 will require PHP 5.3.x. He shared recent PHP version breakdown for sites running a version of BuddyPress greater than 2.0: Unknown – 1.08% 5.2 – 3.23% 5.3 – 12.92% 5.4 – 34.44% 5.5 – 22.38% 5.6 – 23.02% 7.0 – 2.92%
I enjoyed this guest post by Arjun Bhattarai on the BuddyPress blog. Arjun is the founder and developer of StudentsNepal.com — the first and largest community website for students in Nepal with 9,700 registered members and 50,000 subscribers. It was built with WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress.
BuddyPress 4.0.0 (“Pequod”) has been released, and it comes with a suite of tools allowing users and site admins to manage member data and privacy. There’s a new “Export Data” settings panel, and the entire plugin works better now with WordPress’s Privacy Policy tools. The focus on privacy and control of data is really a…
According to the Polygots Make blog, WordPress is used all over the world and in many different languages. To put that in perspective, more than a third of existing WordPress installations are non-English and in his keynote at WordCamp Seattle, core developer Andrew Nacin mentioned that only 5-10% of the world speaks English. At AudioTheme,…
BuddyPress has a maintenance release (6.2.0) that will get you ready for WordPress 5.5 — it “is a recommended upgrade for all BuddyPress installations.” ☝️
BuddyPress 2.8.0 (“San Matteo”) has recently been completed and it includes some nice security tweaks and improvements: more helpful “Activate Pending Accounts” screen, better compatibility with the Twenty Seventeen theme, more hooks for Messages, accessibility upgrades, and more. Looks like a solid release.
