Boone B Gorges 1:20 am on June 19, 2012

BuddyPress 1.6 Beta 1

Hey devs! BuddyPress 1.6 Beta 1 is available: http://buddypress.org/2012/06/buddypress-1-6-beta-1/

Test! Test! Test!

Quint 2:52 am on June 19, 2012

Cool. FYI: Boone or someone, the Version dropdown on Create New Ticket should list 1.6. The highest available option is 1.5.5, which is what I chose to report a bug in 1.6 Beta 1.
- Paul Gibbs 7:31 pm on June 19, 2012
  
  A 1.6-beta version has been added to Trac
shanebp 3:27 pm on June 21, 2012

Using WP 3.3.2, upgraded to 1.6.b1 from trunk.6101 which worked fine.
Now getting this:
PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_get_theme() in /var/www/shanebp/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/admin/bp-core-functions.php on line 242
And cannot access wp-admin
- shanebp 3:30 pm on June 21, 2012
  
  also – using bp-default theme
  - Boone Gorges 8:11 pm on June 21, 2012
    
    BP 1.6 will require WP 3.4+.
Tiago 5:42 pm on June 22, 2012

Hello everybody, okay? I came here the comment that I found the new BuddyPress 1.6 Beta 1 that I tested yesterday. Simply Amazing! It’s lighter and faster. Some things I did not like and suggestions to make the perfect BuddyPress:

I preferred the BuddyPress tab with all the options together as before, would be more organized;

I loved also the issue of privacy in the fields of profiles, but I think you should also include a options menu in the Settings to change also the privacy of tabs Activities, Profiles, etc. for each user. Each user could choose to show their Activities, Friends, Groups only for logged in users, friends or everybody;

Could receive a search field in the Friends and Groups tabs like done in the Messages tab. It would be a faster way to find friends if a user has many;
I liked that when you write a message in the field “Send To” the results of friends are made when the user types the first word of the name. This could also be applied in the Activities. When you started to mention friends with @, suggestions appear as Twitter;

One thing I noticed recently is that when you access your own profile, you see their own activities. This is a little strange. You could make a system that when a person without be you, entered in your profile, appear the user activity that that person is seeing. And when you go to your own profile, you would see your friends activities. It could also be included too in privacy options for subnavs Mentions, Favorites, Friends and Groups of activities tab;

Sorry for the large text above, but I really like BuddyPress. I love this team and I love this plugin that I am proud to use. Bye, hugs!!!
- Paul Gibbs 12:12 pm on June 23, 2012
  Thanks very much for testing.
  - Profile field privacy was implemented just for profile fields. The core team talk about privacy control very often and we’ll continue to extend the controls that BuddyPress has in future versions.
  - We’ll be revisiting the theme templates in a future release as we implement a theme compatibility layer.
  - The “send to” autocompletition — we like that too, keep an eye on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3278
  - The model we use in the member profiles is currently everything you see belongs to the user you are looking at. I think this is more as a result of how the BP-Default theme was built, rather than any technical limitation.
  - JM 3:58 pm on July 14, 2012
    
    BP team, great work on this new release.
    
    @ Paul — Is there any update to the BP Theme Compatibility Layer? What sort of timing (or version) is this targeted for?
    
    Also, the autosuggest patch — it looks like you submitted that over 9 months ago. What is the integration plan for this?