WordPress required version update
Hi ! Please note that BuddyPress 7.0.0 will require WordPress >= 4.9. To learn more about this change: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8318 To learn more about how we decide to bump our...
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Administration screens to manage Group and Member types are arriving 🙌
Hi ! Member types were introduced in version 2.2 and Group Types arrived in 2.6. These two BP types let BuddyPress developers and advanced users organize the members and the groups of their community...
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BP Template Packs: expect changes to the Activity comment form in version 7.0.0
Hi BuddyPress Template Pack “overriders” Here’s an important information for you: get ready to update a possible template override you’ve added to your active theme. We’ve just fixed an issue to avoid...
View ArticleWP CLI BuddyPress – 2.0
BuddyPress 7.0 will come with several updates for the 2.0 version of the wp-cli-buddypress package. For those of us living in the command line, it is important to have a tool to facilitate tasks that...
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Here are the 3 new BP Blocks to expect from BuddyPress 7.0.0 🎁 🎁 🎁
New BP Blocks arriving in BuddyPress 7.0.0 1. Activity Embed The Activity Embed block let authors embed an activity into their post or page. It’s very similar to the WordPress Embed block except that...
View ArticleThe last_activity user metadata is not mirrored by default anymore as of...
Hi BuddyPress Plugin/Theme developers, Since BuddyPress 2.0.0, the primary storage location for the user last_activity information is the activity DB table. For backward compatibility reasons, we used...
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Assigning multiple Member Types to a user
Starting in BuddyPress 7.0.0, community administrators will be able to assign more than one member type directly from the user’s WP-Admin/Extended profile page. The regular select box of the Member...
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Meet the new default avatar for Sites
The BuddyPress Members and Groups were the only components to have a default avatar so far. The Site Tracking component felt very strongly about it, protesting it was about time to give it a default...
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BuddyPress REST API, what’s new in 7.0.0 ?
First of all, the Developer documentation has been updated according to the latest improvements we’ve brought to the BuddyPress REST API! Members Endpoints What’s the friendship status of the logged in...
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