{"id":123514,"date":"2013-11-19T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=123514"},"modified":"2013-11-19T05:09:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T10:09:06","slug":"what-not-to-expect-in-buddypress-1-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/what-not-to-expect-in-buddypress-1-9\/","title":{"rendered":"What Not to Expect in BuddyPress 1.9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest update to BuddyPress is <a title=\"BuddyPress 1.9 beta\" href=\"http:\/\/buddypress.org\/2013\/11\/buddypress-1-9-beta-1-is-now-available\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">almost ready for release<\/a>&#8230; But any major features are MIA.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 100%;\">Back in August we <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 100%;\" title=\"What to Expect in BuddyPress 1.9\" href=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/what-to-expect-in-buddypress-1-9\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">looked at the features announced for version 1.9<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 100%;\">,\u00a0<\/span>such as a new template pack and custom post type enhancements. So<span style=\"font-size: 100%;\">\u00a0in putting together this post, which was going to be about the plugin&#8217;s features, I went back through Trac to see how work progressed on those updates.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_123527\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" data-caption=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-ratio-2-3 wp-image-123527\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/buddypress-312x354.png\" alt=\"BuddyPress\" width=\"312\" height=\"354\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Where is development on BuddyPress going?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>All of them, other than\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 100%;\">better two-way sync of activity comments and\u00a0a general Codex cleanup and refresh, have been shelved.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Is it Worth Updating to BuddyPress 1.9?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 100%;\">So what exactly are the major changes we can look forward to in BuddyPress 1.9?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 100%;\">Well, it&#8217;s hard to say really,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 100%;\">though <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 100%;\">BuddyPress developer Boone Gorges has <a title=\"BuddyPress 1.9 beta\" href=\"http:\/\/buddypress.org\/2013\/11\/buddypress-1-9-beta-1-is-now-available\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">put a call out for testers<\/a> to give attention to:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new notification component, adding a notifications menu to user profiles<\/li>\n<li>New Friends and Log In widgets<\/li>\n<li>Dynamic BuddyPress links for nav menus created at <strong>Dashboard &gt; Appearance &gt; Menus<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Improvements in the performance of BP_ENABLE_USERNAME_COMPATIBILITY_MODE<\/li>\n<li>Improvements to the way scheduled posts are handled in the activity stream<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So yes, there are some changes, just not what was announced back in August. And these changes aren&#8217;t so much major features as they are minor updates.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 100%;\">general release is expected to ship &#8220;in a few weeks&#8221;, well past the planned November 7 launch date.\u00a0<\/span>The beta, which is now available for testing, was originally planned for release in early October.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_123530\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" data-caption=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-ratio-2-3 wp-image-123530\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/buddypress_logo-312x74.png\" alt=\"BuddyPress logo\" width=\"312\" height=\"74\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Version 1.7 and theme compatibility marked big changes for BuddyPress, but it&#8217;s not clear what vision there is for the plugin&#8217;s future.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A <a title=\"BuddyPress Trac\" href=\"http:\/\/buddypress.trac.wordpress.org\/query?status=closed&amp;group=resolution&amp;milestone=1.9\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">quick glance at Trac shows<\/a> Gorges has put a lot of work into this release. The beginning of the 1.9 development cycle coincided with lead developer John James Jacoby leaving Automattic for a new gig as Director of Web Engineering\u00a0at\u00a0<a title=\"10up\" href=\"http:\/\/10up.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">10up<\/a>, so it looks like he&#8217;s taken a back seat as far as work on BuddyPress goes.<\/p>\n<p>So where is BuddyPress going?\u00a0There&#8217;s no clear roadmap for future versions and few developers are working on the project. Since theme compatibility was introduced as a major update in version 1.7, there doesn&#8217;t appear to be any big drive to make major improvements to the plugins, which still lacks ease of use straight out of the box.<\/p>\n<p>Will version 2.0 mark a shift in vision for BuddyPress? Let&#8217;s hope so.<\/p>\n<p>To test version 1.9, get a copy via Subversion or <a title=\"BuddyPress 1.9\" href=\"http:\/\/downloads.wordpress.org\/plugin\/buddypress.1.9-beta1.zip\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">download it directly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you find a problem or bug or just have a suggestion, head to <a title=\"BuddyPress TRAC\" href=\"http:\/\/buddypress.trac.wordpress.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BuddyPress&#8217; development home<\/a> or the <a title=\"BuddyPress support forums\" href=\"http:\/\/buddypress.org\/support\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BuddyPress support forums<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: 100%;\">Do you use BuddyPress? What features would you like to see in BuddyPress? Tell us in the comments below.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest update to BuddyPress is almost ready for release, but any major features are MIA. Back in August we looked at the features announced for version 1.9, such as a new template pack, migrating to the WP Rewrite API and custom post type enhancements. So in putting together this post, which was going to be about the plugin&#8217;s new features, I went back through Trac to see how work went on each of the planned updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164650,"featured_media":123520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-123514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216123,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123514\/revisions\/216123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123514"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=123514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}