Friday Find: Developer chat insights and updates landing
This week the BuddyPress developer chat summary has brought some great insights into what is coming on the horizon with BuddyPress. Let’s take a look at some of these insights.
Incoming BuddyPress 1.2.4 update
It seems BuddyPress 1.2.4 is close enough to smell now with this declaration:
“John said that 1.2.4 will be out the door by the end of the week, along with the Followers plugin. WordPress 3.0 coming out before BuddyPress 1.3. BuddyPress 1.2.4 will come with better WordPress 3.0 support, so that BP doesn’t break when you upgrade core WP. There are 3 defect tickets for the 1.2.4 release at the moment, and Paul Gibbs asked the core developers to consider some of the enhancement tickets that have patches attached.” – Paul Gibbs
The future of themeing in BuddyPress
It seems there are some changing incoming with the theme whilst nothing has been set this was announced in the developer update:
“John announced that whilst the default BuddyPress theme won’t change for 1.3, another Automattic designer, Kevin Conboy (who did the Poll Daddy redesign) has been drafted in to develop future BP themes. John wants to see special themes to help draw out specific functionality in each of the components.” – Paul Gibbs
Further insight into this comes from this comment by Andy:
“AFAIK Kevin is just working on some design stuff in his spare time, the fact he works for Automattic is moot.” – Andy P
WordPress 3.0 Beta 2 has landed
It’s been a while since the first beta but beta 2 has now dropped for WordPress 3.0.
This week’s tips and links from wpmu.org
As is custom with the Friday Find’s here’s a round up of the great tips and links over at wpmu.org this week:
‘New BuddyPress Plugin Adds Ajax Profile Previews to Avatars’
‘How to Widgetize Your WordPress / BuddyPress 404 Page in 2 Simple Steps’
‘Daily tip: How to Remove the BuddyPress is Read Message in the WordPress Dashboard’
‘Monitor Your Site in Stealth Mode Like a BuddyPress Ninja’
So there you have it another Friday Find. If you’ve got a link you want to share or something you want featured in a Friday Find just add a comment or use our contact form.
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