Over the past couple years, BuddyBoss has emerged as a leader in the BuddyPress products marketplace. Founder Michael Eisenwasser launched the business in 2010 after discovering BuddyPress while building an international job site to help online workers find employment. “BuddyPress blew me away,” Eisenwasser said. “It allowed for a sophisticated and fully customizable membership site…
Two years ago, BuddyPress 1.7 introduced WordPress theme compatibility, which meant that sites no longer required a BuddyPress-specific theme in order to run the plugin. The vast majority of themes that use WordPress’ standard template loading should be compatible with BuddyPress. However, some themes still need a little help to make the BuddyPress UI elements…
BuddyPress contributors are polishing up new and existing APIs for the upcoming 2.3 release. For the past several months, core developer Mathieu Viet (@imath) has been spearheading the effort to get the new Attachments API ready for 2.3 with the help of contributions and feedback from the core team. The Attachments API is a new…
BuddyPress 2.2.2 is available from the WordPress plugin directory. It fixes two potential security issues and has a few bug fixes. This is what is fixed in 2.2.2. Activity: sanitize output of “Load More” link Members: better nonce check on members widget Core: improve filtering of wp_title The security issues were responsibly disclosed by Todd…
When a social network is filled with mystery man avatars, it can give the impression that the site is a ghost town, overrun with spam users. Sometimes members are too lazy to upload a profile photo, no matter how many friendly prompts you try to offer. Missing profile images makes for ugly directory pages and…
The BuddyPress Live Notification plugin was originally released in 2011. Brajesh Singh, prolific plugin author and founder of BuddyDev, created the plugin to provide Facebook-style real-time notifications for users. Over the past four years, a number of significant changes in both WordPress and BuddyPress have necessitated a complete rewrite of the extension. The 2.0 version…
The BuddyPress 2.3 development cycle is now in full swing, following a successful 2.2.1 maintenance release that broke the plugin’s one-day download record with more than 10,000 downloads in just 24 hours. More minor fixes are on deck for inclusion in the forthcoming 2.2.2 release. This week contributors identified priorities for new features and improvements…
The 2015 BuddyPress Survey is out on the heels of the 2.2.1 maintenance release. Yesterday, the plugin broke its one-day download record with more than 10,000 downloads in 24 hours. The #BuddyPress 2.2.1 release (just) set our record one-day download record of ~10,107. — Paul Wong-Gibbs (@pgibbs) February 19, 2015 Over the past seven years,…
BuddyPress 2.2 “Spumoni” was released today. The name pays tribute to L&B Spumoni Gardens, a 70 year old, family-owned pizza joint in Brooklyn, NY. This release is packed full of features that offer developers more flexibility in extending BuddyPress. New Member Type API BuddyPress 2.2 introduces a basic Member Type API that developers can use…
Cover photos in user profiles is a design feature in place on many major social networking sites, including Facebook, Twitter, and G+. Users enjoy having the ability to further personalize their profiles beyond the default square avatar. Twitter was one of the last to add this feature to timelines in 2012, and when it did,…
Earlier this week, the folks at BuddyBoss released BuddyPress Global Search, a new plugin that allows users to search through every BuddyPress component. The company’s founder, Michael Eisenwasser, was inspired to give back to the project by creating a string of free plugins that benefit the whole community. BuddyPress Edit Activity is the team’s latest…
The developers behind the BuddyBoss theme shop released a plugin today that has the potential to benefit nearly every BuddyPress social network. BuddyPress Global Search adds a unified search bar, allowing users to search through every BuddyPress component, along with pages, posts, and select custom post types. Once activated, the plugin turns the site’s WordPress…
Over the weekend, BuddyPress project lead John James Jacoby announced that 2.2 beta 1 is ready for testing. The upcoming release has been in development since last September. Jacoby’s campaign for six months of BuddyPress, bbPress, and GlotPress development was fully funded in mid-December, allowing him to spend more time on the project in 2015.…
John James Jacoby’s crowd-funding campaign for development on WordPress’ sister projects is now closed and fully funded at $51,500. For the first six months of 2015, he will be working full-time to push the BuddyPress, bbPress, and GlotPress projects forward. Jacoby is essentially pioneering a new way of working as an open source developer funded…
BuddyPress 2.2 is shaping up to be an exciting release, packed full of new features for developers. Support for Composer will be included in 2.2, as well as a basic member type API, which will allow developers to create different user types. The upcoming 2.2 release will also introduce the ability for new activity items…