For those new to Welcome Pack, check out this intro video, updated for 2.1:

Current version of the Achievements 'Change Picture' screen.

Current version of the Create Achievements screen.

• Allow site admins to create custom Achievements via front-end – this includes specifying name/description/points and avatar (via WordPress media gallery). And, of course, what site event to hook it into (i.e. to fire on new user registration, etc).
• Achievements can also be granted to a specific user, to mimic a “badge” – i.e. “this month’s top contributor” or “competition winner.”
• Groups Directory, like regular BuddyPress Members/Groups Directory. Lists each of the Achievements, and by going into each, you can see who has “unlocked” that Achievement.
• A new area on a user’s profile page to show which Achievements they have unlocked.

Are there any features you’d like to see in sequential releases?

Slava kindly contributed the above bug fixes and has sent in a Russian translation, which is cool; thanks very much.

Ray suggested that the username and group name lists should be sorted alphabetically rather than by user ID, which I agree with, so that will also be in the new version.

[update] It’s available now from your WP Admin Plugins page.

For those new to Welcome Pack, check out this intro video:

I haven’t had huge amounts of feedback yet, which probably means I didn’t break anything — always a good sign. There has been a report on the BuddyPress forums from someone running into difficulty with Welcome Pack on a site with over three thousand users; I’m waiting for some feedback from the person concerned and will probably do a minor patch to resolve it.

Here’s how. Be warned that this will overwrite any translation loaded by a .mo file, but that’s exactly what I needed to do.

To add a new string into the localisation table:

function example() {
global $l10n;

$mo = new MO();
$mo->add_entry( array( 'singular' => 'Spongebob', 'translations' => array( 'Squarepants' ) ) );
if ( isset( $l10n['buddypress'] ) )  //buddypress is the textdomain
$mo->merge_with( $l10n['buddypress'] );

$l10n['buddypress'] = &$mo;
}

_e( 'Spongebob', 'buddypress' );  // This will return "Squarepants".

To change an existing string:

function example() {
global $l10n;

if ( isset( $l10n['buddypress'] ) && isset( $l10n['buddypress']->entries['%s posted an update:'] ) )
$l10n['buddypress']->entries['%s posted an update:']->translations[0] = '%s posted a monkey:';
}

Post a comment if you use this technique for anything interesting

For non-developers, actions are the hooks that WordPress & BuddyPress launches at specific points during execution, or when specific events occur. This allows plugin developers to hook into these events and do whatever they want.

It took me a while, but here’s how you can use the terminal (on Mac or Linux) to find all BuddyPress’ actions.

grep -r -h "do_action( '[aA0-zZ9+]*' )" . | awk -F "['']" '{print $2}' | uniq