BuddyPress

BuddyPress is 10 years old! Congrats…

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Brian Krogsgard

BuddyPress is 10 years old! Congrats to the contributors and those who have supported this project over the past decade. I remember using BuddyPress right around the time when it was first committed. I've personally seen it grow from its…

If you’re looking for a BuddyPress…

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Brian Krogsgard

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…

I enjoyed this guest post by…

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Brian Krogsgard

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…

If you use BuddyPress, check out…

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Dan Knauss

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…

More from Tara! If you’re a…

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Brian Krogsgard

More from Tara! If you're a BuddyPress developer or thinking of using it, you might want to check out the latest published case study on the official blog. Tara Claeys built the Total Wellness Challenge website using BuddyPress, and the…

If you use or develop in…

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Brian Krogsgard

If you use or develop in BuddyPress, you might be interested in the latest results from the annual survey. What most stood out for me is that 45% of those responded have only been using BuddyPress for a year or…

If you’re a BuddyPress user, make…

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Brian Krogsgard
If you're a BuddyPress user, make sure you upgrade to the latest security release, which fixes a few cross-site request forgery (CSRF) issues. You might also want to check out the updated version of the WooCommerce BuddyPress Integration plugin from…

BuddyPress 2.8.0 (“San Matteo”) has recently…

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Dan Knauss
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…

Boone Gorges shares that BuddyPress 2.8…

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Brian Krogsgard

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 -…

There’s a interesting proposal on the…

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Brian Krogsgard

There's a interesting proposal on the table for style modules in BuddyPress. I certainly hope it takes off, since I think this will lead to more people having access to more customization ability in their BuddyPress sites.

John Jacoby has provided an update…

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John Jacoby has provided an update on bbPress 2.6. Two features -- bbPress as Post Comments and Forums as Taxonomies -- are being bumped to 2.7 so that 2.6 won't be held back. Not exactly the best news, but there's…

Social Marketplace is a theme and…

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Social Marketplace is a theme and plugin combination that extends WooCommerce and the WooCommerce Vendors extension, to enable a pretty amazing looking marketplace option, where the marketplace owner can enable vendors, whom each can have their own store, dashboards, and…

Keep an eye on WeFoster, “a…

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Keep an eye on WeFoster, "a community where we show folks how BuddyPress is being used to create a wide range of social networking solutions in the real world." It was started by influential and longstanding members of the BuddyPress…

BuddyPress 2.4, “Pietro”, has been released,…

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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."
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