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  • Paul Gibbs 12:10 pm on September 21, 2011 Permalink | Reply  

    Introduction to BuddyPress 1.5 (audio) 

    I’m super excited that we got BuddyPress 1.5 out; to mark the occasion, I’ve recorded an impromptu one-take audio to share some details of what’s new in BuddyPress 1.5, and a little bit about the development of the plugin. It’s about half an hour long, and you can download it right here: Introduction to BuddyPress 1.5 (audio)

    p.s. I have difficulty pronouncing “features”, it comes out as “futures” — I try to avoid the word as much as possible but I walked right into it out several times, so go easy on me :)

     

    • donnacha of WordSkill 3:45 pm on September 21, 2011 Permalink | Reply

      This is wonderful, it has been exciting watching this one approach the finish line and now it is here, thank you so much for all your hard work.

      I am listening to the audio right now and, Jesus, you really say “features” as “futures”, that’s hilarious!

      I was sorry to hear that you won’t be able to make it up to Edinburgh for the WordUp, that’s a pity but you’re quite right, it is a long way. Having said that, if you ever do make it up here you will always be more than welcome to stay at my place.

      Thanks again and I am literally buzzing with excitement about the next version of Achievements.

    • Ray 6:47 pm on September 21, 2011 Permalink | Reply

      Mr. Gibbs, you need an audio player plugin on your website ;)

    • paul tricklebank 8:12 pm on September 21, 2011 Permalink | Reply

      Hi Paul,

      I recently downloaded your excellent welcomepack plugin for buddypress but I have a problem.
      New user registrations seem to be getting ignored while the plugin is active.

      I am using wordpress 2.1.1, buddypress 1.2.10 and welcompack 2.2.1

      I see in your changelog that you had fixed the problem in an earlier release but the problem is also present on my site.

      Am I doing something wrong? I only started using buddypress a couple of days ago and i haven’t been using wordpress for very long.

      Thanks for any advice you can give me

      Paul

    • Mark Smalley (@m_smalley) 1:37 am on September 22, 2011 Permalink | Reply

      Great to finally “hear” you in action Paul – and once again, awesome-awesome work. 800+ tickets is mind blowing – you guys have done a magnificent job!

  • Paul Gibbs 6:16 am on September 21, 2011 Permalink | Reply  

    BuddyPress 1.5 is now available! 

    After an epic development cycle, BuddyPress 1.5 is available immediately! There are so many new features and fixes, be sure to read the changelog for details, and the official release post over on BuddyPress.org. If you need support getting started with BuddyPress 1.5, please start at the Support Forums.

     

    • Sayed 10:34 am on September 21, 2011 Permalink | Reply

      Hello Paul,

      I have been following your briliant acheivements plugin for some time now. Today I installed it on my site and I am getting the following error on the ‘create acjhievement’ page:

      Warning: in_array() [function.in-array]: Wrong datatype for second argument in wp-content/plugins/achievements/includes/achievements-core.php

      will deeply appreciate if you can help me :)

      Thanks for your time.

    • Fausto Fernós 11:21 am on September 21, 2011 Permalink | Reply

      Amen!

  • Paul Gibbs 12:47 pm on August 20, 2011 Permalink | Reply  

    Update plans for plugins after BuddyPress 1.5 

    BuddyPress 1.5 is really close to release now (really!). I’ve started on a much-needed update of Welcome Pack, to bring it up to date for the latest versions of WordPress and BuddyPress, and planned features which will enhance the email customisation options.

    After that’s done, BP Labs will probably be next, as I want to continue building on the Akismet integration; I think that will be really popular once word gets around.

    Then Achievements. :)

     

    • Mike Kennedy 8:51 pm on August 20, 2011 Permalink | Reply

      I’m looking very, very, forward to using Welcome Pack again! :) Can’t wait. May I kindly suggest that you do one upgrade to make it compatible with BP 1.5 so we could use that in the mean time, and then upgrade it again with the planned new features, so we can begin using it sooner :)

      Oh, and does the BP Labs autosuggest use the same autosuggest as the one in Compose Message? Because it would make more sense to me if it did, because it does a great job at autosuggest as well, and it would cut down on code and whatnot since you could just reuse it. Just wondering, as I have absolutely no idea :)

      • Paul Gibbs 10:05 am on August 21, 2011 Permalink | Reply

        Hi Mike,
        I’ve actually had a mostly updated Welcome Pack ready for some time, but I hadn’t released it, so your suggestion is definitely possible. Someone also sent me a couple of patches for Achievements and Welcome Pack, to help bring them up to date, which was super helpful, too!

        I’m going to start on the email changes and see how long that looks like taking; depending on when BP 1.5 hits, if I have to release the “make it work” version, I will.

        RE: Labs autosuggest. No it doesn’t; partly because I wanted to learn how to build a jQuery plugin. I think mine does a better job of regex parsing input for user names, but my plan is to try to use the standard autocomplete script (which is what Compose Message, and the P2 theme, both use) and test how that works :)

    • donnacha of WordSkill 2:37 am on August 21, 2011 Permalink | Reply

      Ah, Achievements … saving the best for last.

    • Gidon Ariel 6:04 am on August 21, 2011 Permalink | Reply

      Glad to hear from you! I am starting a site that is heavily dependent on BP and I am glad that a BP resource is available.

      • Paul Gibbs 10:07 am on August 21, 2011 Permalink | Reply

        Excellent! Be sure to share your site on the BuddyPress.org gallery forum :)

    • Fausto Fernós 11:04 pm on August 21, 2011 Permalink | Reply

      Awesome! Thanks for your hard work.

    • nahummadrid 2:52 pm on September 9, 2011 Permalink | Reply

      how about…Achievements first! :)

      I shouldn’t have cyborg’d Achievements and WP MU!

      • Paul Gibbs 2:59 pm on September 9, 2011 Permalink | Reply

        But I’m already half-done on Welcome Pack :) (To those interested, the time remaining is to build a new feature to Welcome Pack, not a compatibility fix)

    • Paul Gibbs 10:35 pm on September 18, 2011 Permalink | Reply

      Just to update: Welcome Pack coming along pretty well for BuddyPress 1.5 compatibility. If I can’t finish re-building the email customisation feature by next weekend, I’ll release a version with that feature disabled for the time being. I’ve done the front end stuff, I just need to figure out some clever plumbing on the backend

    • Nicusor Dumbrava 9:01 pm on September 29, 2011 Permalink | Reply

      Paul Gibbs, your fast response on updating plugins for BuddyPress version 1.5… are very much appreciated :)

      Today I’m starting my first site powered by BuddyPress, why now? mostly because… now I really believe in the success of BuddyPress, version 1.5 looks pretty major… this is like high school diploma for bp :)

      Thank you for your contribution to the community!

    • Gerald 1:18 pm on November 18, 2011 Permalink | Reply

      Now when BuddyPress 1.5 has been released, hundreds of bug, enhancements, and all-new features are fixed. Thank you!!

  • Paul Gibbs 9:49 pm on August 2, 2011 Permalink | Reply
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    BP Labs 1.2-beta-1 should be available on WordPress.org, soon. What’s new?

    • Added caching to @mentions autosuggest; it speeds up multiple requests for the same query.
    • Added Activity Stream Spam experiment (requires BuddyPress 1.5).

    Activity Stream Spam requires BuddyPress 1.5; it won’t do anything on earlier versions of BuddyPress. 1.5 is due out soon, and is itself currently in beta (go test!). The admin backend for un-spamming (or “hamming”) activity items looks like this.

    Activity Stream Spam management panel

    Please note you’ll need to have WordPress’ standard Akismet plugin set up, configured and working. In beta 1, there is no way of manually marking an activity item as spam; Akismet will use its best judgement.

    I wanted to get this out as soon as possible so people can (hopefully) test the core functionality, in order for a final release a little while after BuddyPress 1.5 goes out. Let me know in comments any bugs or feedback.

     

    • hohodz 12:15 am on August 6, 2011 Permalink | Reply

      Hi Paul, I dont know how your plugin work but I’ve a suggestion concerning “@mentions auto suggest”, I think that the list of suggestions must bu grabbed from the page that we are!!
      I know!! it’s unclear, I’ll explain: for example I’m posting a reply in a forum topic the plugin will suggest only the persons who replied to this topic and the the writer of course (or group’s members).
      when I would update my activity the plugin will suggest from friend list only, when I would post in my group wall it will suggest from group’s members and like that the plugin will be verry rapid ;)

      • Paul Gibbs 8:56 am on August 6, 2011 Permalink | Reply

        Hi hohodz,
        Thanks for the feedback. I had thought about making it context-sensitive, as you are suggesting, but I haven’t looked at how to implement that just yet. Hopefully will be done in a future version.

        • Mike Kennedy 10:07 pm on August 7, 2011 Permalink

          Sounds a little unnecessary to me because you wouldn’t want autosuggest to limit who you could @mention. You just want it to make it easier to find the name you’re looking for, regardless of the context. What if you wanted to @mention someone in a group topic that was not yet apart of that group topic? You wouldn’t be able to.

          Also, I’m using 1.2 (I’m pretty sure it’s Beta 1), and I notice a lag when you type “@” and at least one character: It says it’s loading, then it goes back up, then it goes back down to display the names. Also, it extends to the right too far, resulting in a horizontal scroll bar – http://oi56.tinypic.com/m79mj8.jpg. It happens with the Frisco theme, too, I think.

        • Paul Gibbs 6:18 am on August 8, 2011 Permalink

          That’s a known issue with BP Default 1.5. It is proving very challenging to fix so far! It only affects those “what’s up” activity boxes. It should work fine with areas such as the private message compose window.

    • hohodz 8:05 pm on August 6, 2011 Permalink | Reply

      plz give me the default language file to translate it to french and arabic ;)

  • Paul Gibbs 10:04 pm on July 31, 2011 Permalink | Reply
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    BP Labs 1.2; Activity Stream Spam 

    Last week, the BuddyPress core team put out the first beta of BuddyPress 1.5; I’m extremely thrilled that it’s so close to release now. It’s set to be the best BuddyPress yet, and I’m looking forward to people enjoying all of the enhancements we’ve put into it. Once 1.5′s out, I plan to shift some of my time to back to working on new and old BuddyPress plugins.

    I’ve had time this weekend to get my BP Labs plugin close to another release. The big feature, as previous mentioned, is integrating Akismet into the Activity Stream. It’s going to be a pretty rudimentary implementation in the first release, as I need to think about how the admin UI is best done, and how it should or shouldn’t match WordPress’ comment spam handling. Here’s a screenshot of the admin UI so far, which is what I’ve spent this afternoon on:

    Activity Stream spam, admin UI

    Activity Stream spam, admin UI

     

    • donnacha of WordSkill 11:37 pm on July 31, 2011 Permalink | Reply

      I’m excited about BP 1.5 too, it would have been even better if you’d skipped all the way to 2.0 ;)

      Will the current Achievements work well with BP 1.5 or would it be better to wait until you’ve had time to release an update?

      Thanks, as ever, for all your hard work Paul.

      P.S. Most of your spam seems to be coming from this fellow “admin” and his sidekick “test”, you should think about banning them.

      • Paul Gibbs 6:17 am on August 1, 2011 Permalink | Reply

        I’m not sure about Achievements; I’ve not had lots of time to test, and it seemed to work at a cursory glance when I checked a couple of weeks ago, but I didn’t test everything. It’s on the todo asap.

  • Paul Gibbs 9:20 pm on July 26, 2011 Permalink | Reply  

    Don’t miss tomorrow’s BuddyPress Developers’ chat 

    Tomorrow, we have our regular Wednesday BuddyPress Developers’ chat. It’s at 19:00 UTC, in #buddypress-dev on Freenode. We’re getting a growing number of attendees, but if you haven’t before, tomorrow’s would be a really good one to pick :)

    If you are new to IRC, the best way to join in is to visit http://webchat.freenode.net/. In the channels box, type #buddypress-dev, enter a nickname and complete the captcha, and click connect.

     

  • Paul Gibbs 11:41 am on July 22, 2011 Permalink | Reply
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    BuddyPress at WordCamp Portsmouth 

    I spent last weekend at WordCamp Portsmouth, and met and re-met all sorts of super cool people. I was lucky to be presenting a session about BuddyPress, where I covered details of features in the next (1.3) release, as well as our plans for the future (1.4).

    The presentation was recorded, and as soon as that’s uploaded, I hope to share my thoughts on the WordCamp in another blog post. For now, here’s my slides:

     

    • Mark McWilliams 11:56 am on July 22, 2011 Permalink | Reply

      Looks exciting going by your slides, I can’t wait to watch the video (and see what fun I missed out on over the weekend!) But also to hear about the new exciting enhancements for BuddyPress 1.4 — I might just have to start running trunk locally and play about? ;)

  • Paul Gibbs 9:51 am on July 2, 2011 Permalink  

    Help me get a list of sites using #buddypress 

    If your site, or company, uses BuddyPress, please let me know. I’m trying to make a big list for a presentation. In particular, I’d love to hear from medium/large companies.

    Please reply in comments, or to @pgibbs on Twitter, or email me if you want to keep it confidential. Thanks!

     

  • Paul Gibbs 5:35 pm on June 26, 2011 Permalink | Reply
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    BP Labs 1.1 

    I’ve just pushed out an update for BP Labs, 1.1. It adds an admin panel so you can turn on/off individual experiments.

    Get it on wordpress.org.

     

    • Vernon Fowler 1:35 am on June 29, 2011 Permalink | Reply

      Thanks so much for this update. As we don’t use @ on our BuddyPress installation, ability to turn that feature off is perfect. Also, I love the quick admin feature – works great.

      • Paul Gibbs 6:11 am on June 29, 2011 Permalink | Reply

        Excellent — glad you like it. Keep an eye out for more experiments in future releases :)

  • Paul Gibbs 8:51 pm on June 18, 2011 Permalink | Reply
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    New plugin: BP Labs 

    I’ve just released a new plugin, which I’m calling BP Labs. Inspired by both GMail Labs and John O’Nolan‘s UI Labs, BP Labs contains two unofficial BuddyPress experiments; @mentions autosuggest and Quick Admin.

    Though I work on BuddyPress core, this is 100% unofficial and all my own work. More experiments to come!

    Download BP Labs at WordPress.org

    Support and feedback at BuddyPress.org

     

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