The BuddyPress 6.0 release candidate is…

ByDan Knauss Posted onMay 3, 2020

The BuddyPress 6.0 release candidate is out. BuddyPress 6.0.0 is slated for release on Thursday, May 14. 📅

The most popular WordPress plugins

ByBrian Krogsgard February 27, 2015December 11, 2022

WordPress plugin popularity has always been pretty tough to figure out. We only had download counts or independent, third party website scrapers to tell us anything. Now, WordPress.org itself has more data that’s being tested and launched to give us real insight into the popularity of WordPress plugins.

BuddyPress is 10 years old! Congrats…

ByBrian Krogsgard April 3, 2018

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 somewhat unstable early days into a powerful social platform. Paul Gibbs also (re)shares some thoughts…

If you use BuddyPress, check out…

ByDan Knauss May 29, 2017May 29, 2017

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.

WordPress News

MeetWP is a new online WordPress meetup

ByBrian Krogsgard July 19, 2013January 31, 2015

MeetWP is launching in a few short days. MeetWP is an online WordPress Meetup with WordCamp/Meetup style presentations presented like a podcast. The site will include a chat and other features for social interactions. The first guest will be BuddyPress lead dev and Automattician John James Jacoby.