On September 29, changesets 12097 and 12098 were committed to the Meta Trac repository for wordpress.org by Scott Reilly (Audrey Capital). These changes remove the Active Install Growth chart from the plugin repository's "Advanced" section on individual plugins. The only…
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Post Status Notes #497
David Bisset
PlanetThe Week in Review
WordPress 6.0 News WordPress 6.0 Beta 4 is available for testing with the final release still planned for May 24, 2022. With the release of WordPress 6.0 fast approaching, developers should bookmark and examine the newly released WordPress 6.0 Field…
Who Uses WordPress Multisite?
Dan Knauss
PlanetWordPress Community
WordPress Multisite isn't for everyone. Two of our oldest and still popular posts are about not using Multisite. One is about how to disable Multisite when you decide to quit using it after it's been active. Another explains when to…
Post Status Excerpt (No. 41) — WordPress Community Versions: Past, Present, Future
David Bisset
BusinessDesign
"The Hippie times are going to end at some point." —Bob Dunn In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David has an honest and deep dive with Bob Dunn into the "versions" of the WordPress community — something Bob covered…
BuddyPress 9.0 “Mico” was released a…
Dan Knauss
Design
BuddyPress 9.0 “Mico” was released a day before WordPress 5.8 with 10 new blocks. It was a short time frame development cycle, so kudos to the team for pulling it off. 🙌 I’m excited to see the block editor used…
Footnotes #456
Dan Knauss
BusinessDesign
Issue #456 “One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn’t as individuals.” — Jean Vanier, Community And Growth Howdy! Thinking about WordPress history lately in terms…
BuddyPress 8.0 will introduce personalized membership…
Dan Knauss
BuddyPress 8.0 will introduce personalized membership invitations and a new notification email that will automatically welcome new members into your community. 🤝
If you use BuddyPress and plan…
Dan Knauss
If you use BuddyPress and plan on using Full Site Editing, you should be aware some issues with both have been reported. BuddyPress content is not shown at all on the front end with FSE enabled. (This issue might extend…
BuddyPress has a security release that…
Dan Knauss
Security
BuddyPress has a security release that addresses 5 security issues that were reported privately to the team. Upgrade to 7.2.1 when you can. 🔒
BuddyPress 7.2.0 is now out. This…
Dan Knauss
BuddyPress 7.2.0 is now out. This maintenance release mainly fixes bugs that surface when the BP Nouveau Template Pack is used with the Twenty Twenty-One core theme.
Mathieu Viet has a summary of…
Dan Knauss
Mathieu Viet has a summary of BuddyPress updates and activity in 2020. Some highlights: 9 releases (3 more than in 2019) 2 major releases (1 more than in 2019) 7 minor releases (2 more than in 2019) Fixed 186 tickets,…
In a guest post with Mathieu…
Dan Knauss
In a guest post with Mathieu Viet, Varun Dubey explains how his exceptional BuddyX BuddyPress theme made its way into the official WordPress.org theme directory. 🎨
BuddyPress 7.0.0 “Filippi” is out! New…
Dan Knauss
BuddyPress 7.0.0 “Filippi” is out! New features include a UI for Member and Group types, new blocks, REST API improvements, and WP CLI support. ✨
BuddyPress 6.3.0 is out with some…
Dan Knauss
BuddyPress 6.3.0 is out with some bug fixes, so make sure you are updated. According to the latest dev chat notes, we might see a 7.0 release in October. 🍂
Justin Sainton explains in this case…
Dan Knauss
Justin Sainton explains in this case study how to power BuddyPress with WebDevStudios' Algolia search-as-a-service engine. He shares a bootstrap file, walks through several code snippets, and offers a video at the end. In addition to BuddyPress and the Algolia,…
BuddyPress has a maintenance release (6.2.0)…
Dan Knauss
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." ☝️
