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  BuddyPress rc1

  3783 readersBuddyPress reached Release Candidate status this week. Get BP rc-1 over here (zip). Also, the new 2010 default theme has just hit the repo. Scroll down on that page and you’ll get the zip of the theme. Random Posts November 27, 2008 — News from around the WPMU block (0) June 12, 2009 — Building a better blog host:

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  Community building with BuddyPress

  2461 readersA while back BuddyPress 1.2 was released and with it came a bunch of new features to transform your WordPress installation into a full fledged community. You may be at the point where adding a social layer to your site is the logical next step to build a better blog. BuddyPress allows you to build

• BuddyPress 1.1 – Release Candidate

  800 readersBuddyPress 1.1 release candidate is available for final testing. As with the beta, this version is intended for testing, so please do not run it on production sites. As with the beta, the release candidate is available for download via zip or via subversion. If you download the zip version you will still need to download bbPress 1.0

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  The BuddyPress Revolution (coming soon…)

  404 readersBy the time you’re reading this, it is quite possible that the BuddyPress revolution will have happened, but if you’re reading this soon after this was posted, I can safely say that the BuddyPress revolution hasn’t happened yet. It’s under way, but is hasn’t happened. What on earth are you going on about?! I’ll go

• BuddyPress 1.2 Release Candidate

  2694 readersThe release candidate version of BuddyPress 1.2 is now ready for download and testing (svn link). Thank you to those who have contributed so far, we’ve closed over 125 tickets since we released the beta last week. We’re almost there, but we still need your help with this final testing phase. We’re looking for testers on

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  What Is The Immediate Future Of bbPress?

  1049 readersThat’s the question Matt Mullenweg is asking on the official bbPress.org support forums. The post highlights the fact that bbPress is not going away and that it is an important project for the WordPress community. After all, it powers the WordPress.org plugin repository, the support forums, and TalkPress, Automattics hosted forum service. Strategically the most

• Activity breeds activity

  703 readersOver the past few weeks we’ve released 3 bug fix versions of BuddyPress; more than we’ve released for the entire beginning of the year. What I noticed is that when development was slow, so were our support forums and so was the general buzz about the project. Since we’ve started patching bugs and cranking out

• bbPress 1.0 Release Candidate 2

  359 readersToday we are releasing what will be the final release candidate for bbPress 1.0 before it goes to 1.0 final in a couple of days. The release is available now from the downloads page. This release incorporates many bug fixes to BackPress via the final work in the lead up to the release of WordPress 2.8 It also

• BuddyPress 1.2 RC2

  4034 readersA second release candidate is now available for testing on WordPress 2.9.1 and WordPress MU 2.9.1 and above (zip / svn). If you are upgrading from an earlier pre-release version then you can just overwrite the BuddyPress plugin directory. Instructions for upgrading test installations from previous versions of BuddyPress are also available. As before you can find

• BuddyPress for One (and All!)

  4762 readersBack in April of last year, Matt posted here on the dev blog about the release of BuddyPress 1.0, a plugin that adds a social networking layer to an installation of WordPress MU. Many people were excited about the idea, but were unable to experiment with BuddyPress because they ran single installations of WordPress rather