Tag: buddypress

Major plugin and theme updates for June 21, 2015

The following plugins will receive major updates as part of the 1.8.3 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for June 21, 2015:

  • Better Search (2.0)
  • BuddyPress (2.3)
  • CommentPress Core (3.7)
  • FeedWordPress (2015.514)
  • Google Forms (0.80)
  • List category posts (0.61)
  • News announcement scroll (8.5)
  • NextGEN Gallery by Photocrati (2.1)
  • RSS Multi Importer (3.15)
  • Subscribe2 (10.20)
  • TablePress (1.6)
  • ThreeWP Broadcast (19.1)
  • ThreeWP Broadcast Blog Groups (19.1)
  • WP-o-Matic (2.4)
  • xili-language (2.18)
  • xili-xl-bbp-addon (2.18)

The following theme will receive major updates as part of the 1.8.3 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for June 21, 2015:

  • Attitude (1.6)
  • Twenty Fifteen (1.2)

For more details on major update releases, please visit our release schedule and procedures page.

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Major plugin and theme updates for February 21, 2015

The following plugins will receive major updates as part of the 1.7.13 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for February 21, 2015:

  • Advanced Custom Fields (4.4.0)
  • BuddyPress (2.2.0)
  • Contact Form 7 (4.1)
  • Gravity Forms PDF Extended (3.6.0)
  • Media Library Assitant (2.01)
  • News announcement scroll (8.4)
  • ThreeWP Broadcast (16)
  • WP Retina 2x (2.6.0)
  • Zotpress (5.4)

For more details on major update releases, please visit our release schedule and procedures page.

Commons 1.7

I’ve just released version 1.7 of the CUNY Academic Commons. This is a major feature release for the Commons. Some highlights:

  • The new My Commons feature, which is a landing page that provides an at-a-glance view of activity related to your groups, friends, and sites on the Commons. My Commons is powered by the BuddyPress activity stream, and uses a custom page template for display.
  • A related feature is the ability to follow sites. Following a site will make activity from that site show up on your My Commons page, and your followed sites appear in a list on your Commons Profile. This feature is powered by the BuddyPress Followers plugin, written my team member Ray Hoh.
  • Group forums have been migrated from our ancient bbPress 1.x installation to the bbPress 2.x. I wrote a custom plugin that handled the migration between the old forum-attachments-for-buddypress plugin and our new forum attachment software.
  • BuddyPress Docs has also been brought up to date. The BuddyPress Docs In Group plugin was written as a shim to allow us to update without radically changing our interface.
  • Group members can download zip archives of group files, either en masse or by folder. This is a custom add-on for buddypress-group-documents, written by team member Daniel Jones.

For a complete list of changes in the release, visit the 1.7 milestone.

Major plugin and theme updates for October 21, 2014

The following items will receive major upgrades during the maintenance release on October 21, 2014. The numbers in parentheses represent the major version series for each item; on the 21st, the item will be upgraded to the latest available version in that series, but no later.

Major platform updates:

  1. WordPress (4.0)
  2. BuddyPress (2.1)

Plugins:

  1. Auto-Close Comments, Pingbacks and Trackbacks (1.5)
  2. BWP Google XML Sitemaps (1.3)
  3. CommentPress Core (3.6)
  4. Contact Form 7 (3.9)
  5. Enable Media Replace (3.0)
  6. Fourteen Colors (1.2)
  7. Google Calendar Events (2.0)
  8. Google Forms (0.72)
  9. List Category Posts (0.51)
  10. News Announcement Scroll (8.3)
  11. Newsletters (4.4)
  12. Ninja Forms (2.8)
  13. Subscribe 2 (10.17)
  14. The Events Calendar (3.8)
  15. Theme Check (20140929.1)
  16. User Role Editor (4.17)
  17. WordPress SEO (1.6)
  18. WP-EMail (2.63)
  19. WP-Polls (2.67)
  20. WP-PostRatings (1.79)
  21. WP-Print (2.54)
  22. WP-Sticky (1.51)
  23. WP LaTeX (1.9)

Themes:

  1. Make (1.4)
  2. Sixteen (1.3)
  3. Twenty Eleven (1.9)
  4. Twenty Fourteen (1.2)
  5. Twenty Ten (1.7)
  6. Twenty Thirteen (1.3)
  7. Twenty Twelve (1.5)

Question or concerns about these releases? Leave a comment below, or contact our team at commons@gc.cuny.edu.

(This post is in the series of “major update release warning posts”, announced in https://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/09/05/new-release-schedule-and-procedures-document-available/ and described in detail at https://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/release-schedule-and-procedures/#major-update-releases.)

Commons 1.6.4

I’ve just released version 1.6.4 of the CUNY Academic Commons. This is a maintenance release. Major items:

– Major plugin updates, as announced in https://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/05/06/major-commons-plugin-updates-scheduled-for-may-21-2014/. Notably, this includes BuddyPress 2.0.1, which is a major update for the platform and should result in notable performance improvements throughout the social parts of the site.
– Update WordPress to 3.9.1
– A number of minor plugin updates
– New theme: Spun
– New plugin: Social Stickers
– Fixed bug that caused fatal errors when creating groups in some cases
– Fixed bug that caused improper error feedback when adding a link to your profile

For complete details on the release, visit the 1.6.4 milestone.

Major Commons plugin updates scheduled for May 21, 2014

The following plugins will receive major upgrades during the maintenance release on May 21, 2014. The numbers in parentheses represent the major version series for each plugin; on the 21st, the plugin will be upgraded to the latest available version in that series, but no later.

  1. Akismet (3.0)
  2. BuddyPress (2.0)
  3. Contact Form 7 (3.8)
  4. Custom sidebars (1.5)
  5. Invite Anyone (1.2.1)
  6. Random Image (2.0)
  7. Search Everything (8.1)
  8. Subscribe2 (9.4)
  9. TablePress (1.4)
  10. User Role Editor (4.12)
  11. WordPress Front-end Editor (0.10)
  12. WordPress Google Form (0.69)
  13. WP-Markdown (1.5)
  14. WP-PostRatings (1.78)
  15. WP-Print (2.53)
  16. Zotpress (5.1)

In addition, WordPress will be updated to the 3.9 series.

Question or concerns about these releases? Leave a comment below, or contact our team at commons@gc.cuny.edu.

(This post is in the series of “major update release warning posts”, announced in https://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/09/05/new-release-schedule-and-procedures-document-available/ and described in detail at https://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/release-schedule-and-procedures/#major-update-releases.)