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Today the BuddyPress team is excited to announce the release of BuddyPress 1.9 “Sammy”. What’s new in 1.9 Notifications BuddyPress has always come packaged with the ability to alert members of relevant goings-on. Things like friend requests, private messages, and group invitations, have been routed through a very simple core process that alerts members via […]

A quick note that BuddyPress.org has been updated to WordPress 3.8. Also, BuddyPress 1.8 is fully compatible with the latest and greatest version of WordPress, so you can safely update knowing that BuddyPress will cooperate completely. We’ve also updated BuddyPress.org to run what will be BuddyPress 1.9, which we’re preparing to release on Monday, December […]

The second beta of BuddyPress 1.9 is now available. Since Beta 1, we’ve fixed a number of issues with the new Notifications component, as well as a number of other miscellaneous issues, notably related to BP_User_Query, xprofile field visibility settings, and the Read More AJAX on the activity page. Many thanks to those who took […]

The first beta of BuddyPress 1.9 is ready for testing! Whether you are a BuddyPress developer, or a tinkerer with a development/testing environment, or simply an intrepid soul, we’d love for you to put this latest and greatest version of BuddyPress through its paces before its general release in a few weeks. Major changes and […]

I’m pleased to announce the release of my book ‘BuddyPress Theme Development‘ published by Packt. This book serves as a guide (with practical tutorials) on how to make the most out of BuddyPress with custom templates and styles. It gives insight into the current state of BuddyPress theme creation and gently leads readers through creating […]

This report presents the results from the 2013 BuddyPress Codex Survey held from August 16 – 26, 2013. One hundred seventy-eight developers from thirty-six countries responded to provide valuable information about BP usage and documentation requirements. Thank you all. A. Background At the beginning of the development cycle for BP version 1.9, @hnla and @mercime […]

As part of the work on the upcoming 1.9 release, we’re putting effort into improving the BuddyPress documentation. There have been many great new features and improvements to BuddyPress over the last few releases and we need to bring the documentation up to date. We’ve launched the Buddypress Codex Survey. The survey is already providing […]

BuddyPress 1.8.1 is now available. This is a maintenance release, which features improved compatibility with WordPress 3.6, as well as fixes for some RSS feeds, the meta_query parameters in the Groups and Activity template loops, and the Groups Extension API. A complete list of closed tickets can be found at the 1.8.1 milestone, and a […]

The BuddyPress team is proud to announce BuddyPress 1.8 “Di Fara”! What’s new in 1.8 BuddyPress 1.8 is a major feature release, containing many bugfixes and dozens of new features. Some of these items are highlighted below, and a full changelog for 1.8 is available on the BP Codex. Better theme integration Since BuddyPress 1.7, […]

BuddyPress 1.8 is so close you can smell it! (Incidentally, it smells kinda like pizza.) The first release candidate (RC1) for BP 1.8 is now available. “Release candidate” means we think everything’s in place for the final 1.8 release, but want to give developers and users one last chance to kick the tires. Not sure […]