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Version 1.7

Version 1.7 is a major BuddyPress feature release. BuddyPress 1.7 introduces many dozens of new features and enhancements, on top of hundreds of bugfixes.

For Version 1.7, the database version (_bp_db_version in wp_options) changed to 6067, and the Trac revision was 6900. Read the full ticket log here here.

Highlights

• Theme Compatibility – BuddyPress now works with all WordPress themes.
• Groups Administration – New Dashboard panel for managing groups, including membership and settings
• Improved Member Queries – The new BP_User_Query removes SQL JOINs against global user tables, increasing member query speed
• Streamlined Installation – The installation wizard has been removed, and Welcome and Credits screens added.

User Features

Activity

• Adds correct <language> attribute to RSS feeds
• Improved the handling of shortcodes in blog activity items (#4488)
• Fixes bug in the “Use Akismet for activity checks” preference setting (#4773)
• Fixes bug that prevented the Akismet cleanup routine from running (#4792)

Administration

• Improved feedback when saving settings (#4402)
• Group administration panels (#4414)
• Added the ability to sort xprofile options (#3778)
• Widget names now prepended with “(BuddyPress)”, so that they’re grouped on Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets
• Fixed bug in the ‘my-sites.php’ link redirect when Blogs directory has a non-default slug (#4632)
• Removed installation wizard, which is replaced by auto-setup and configuration (#4671)
• Added Welcome/About and Credits panels (#4671)
• Added contextual help pages (#4613)
• Fixed bug in Activity/Groups bulk deletion tools (#4547)
• Adds HiDPI icons (#4568)
• Activity and Groups menu moved to their own section

Forums

• Retired bbPress 1.x “Group Forums” component (replaced with bbPress 2.x integration) (#3598)
• Fixed bug that allowed duplicate forum replies in some cases (#4758)

Friends

• Improved the behavior of the Request button after requesting friendship (#4696)

General

• Improved reliability of XML by removing excess whitespace (#4315)
• Fixed bug that prevented directory headers from being refreshed via AJAX (#4736)

Groups

• Fixed bug that prevented invited members from requesting membership in private groups (#4113)
• Improved styling during group creation (#4604)
• Fixed redirect bug when using a default group tab other than Home (#4706)
• Fixed bug that allowed group mods to see the Admin nav item (#4737)

Messages

• Fixed bug that prevented messages from being sendable to users with numeric user_login values (#4305)
• Improved consistency in Messages template layout and content

Profiles

• Added an Admins Only visibility setting for profile fields (#4440)
• Fixed bug that prevented default field visibility settings from reflecting on the Register page (#4456)
• Fixed rendering of smilies in profile fields (#4579)
• Fixed bug that prevented admins from editing user settings
• Fixed bug that prevented profile data from syncing to WP on registration (#4697)
• Removed deprecated setting related to email notifications of sitewide notices (#4802)

Theme

• Introduced theme compatibility; BuddyPress works with any WP theme. You don’t have to do anything (#3741)
• Fixed a broken activity comment link when JavaScript is disabled
• Improved speed of some JavaScript lookups
• Changed AJAX button animation from a spinner to a throb (#4610)
• Fixed bug in page title when directory pages have parents (#4242)
• Fixed a bug in the avatar cropper when using responsive themes (#4708)
• Ensure that notices appear in activation templates (#4725)

Development, Themes, Plugins

Activity

• Improved strict argument swapping when building activity queries (#4253)
• Corrects the placement of the bp_before_activity_delete action (#4461)
• Fixed bug that prevented querying for the comments of an activity comment (#4600)
• Modified bp_activity_recurse_comments() to use bp_locate_template(), for better extensibility
• Added ?s= querystring support to bp_has_activities()
• Added no_timestamp param to bp_get_activity_action()
• Added template functions for fetching activity comments’ author IDs (#4655)
• Added the ability to make secondary avatars into links (#4436)
• Fixed bug that caused activity save hooks to be fired twice in some cases (#3980)
• Fixed bug that prevented activity items from being deleted when user_id is empty (#4735)

Blogs

• Only populate blogs table with blogs from the current network, for better multi-network performance (#4337)
• Fetches featured images for display on blogs directories (#4570)
• Added some template functions for blog loops (#4570)
• Increased the blog domain registration field length, for better consistency with server-side handlers and W3C spec (#4560)
• Introduced the ability for plugins to prevent certain blogs from being tracked in the activity stream (#4527)

Forums

• Improved activity text when editing bbPress 1.x forum posts (#4350)
• Removed redundant filter on group forum count SQL queries (#4306)
• Improved behavior when “uninstalling” bbPress 1.x forums (#4397)
• Improved logic when checking whether bbPress 1.x forums are correctly installed

General

• Improved compatibility with PHP 5.4
• Switched to .min convention for JS and CSS file, for better consistency with WP’s SCRIPT_DEBUG
• Improved email address validation on multisite (#4485)
• Abstracted email validation into a standalone function (#4486)
• Added filters to bp_core_time_since()
• Removed EOF ?> delimiters, in accordance with WordPress standards (#4443)
• Replaced $bp global references with buddypress(), a wrapper for the BuddyPress singleton
• BuddyPress now obeys WordPress’s ‘show_avatar’ option
• Reinstated $bp_unfiltered_uri global removed in 1.6 (for backpat) (#4516)
• Moved plugin screenshots out of package (and into svn assets directory) to trim the size of the plugin zip
• Fixed bug that caused BP to wipe the WP object cache in inappropriate situations

Groups

• Added support to BP_Group_Extension for the new Administration panels (#4414)
• Converted bp_has_groups() to accept parameters as a keyed array
• Fixed location of groups_before_delete_group action (#4561)
• Fixed filter logic in bp_get_group_new_topic_button()
• Improved cache busting when updating or deleting groups (#4572)
• Introduced template tags for group creator username/id/permalink/avatar (#4596)
• Fixed some broken SQL query syntax in bp-groups-classes.php (#4711)
• Added additional parameters to groups_get_group_members()

Members

• Introduced BP_User_Query, and converted BP member queries to use the new class (#4060)
• Pass a ‘username’ param to bp_core_get_userid filter (#4587)

Messages

• Added a multipart enctype to the messaging form in the default theme, to make attachments plugins easier to build (#4459)

Theme

• Improved localizability for <title> element in bp-default (#4419)
• Improved CSS class generation on directory listings, for easier zebra-striping (#3741)
• Improved localization in Visibility text
• Introduced bp_nav_menu(), bringing the ability to fetch nested nav/options_nav (#4629)
• Migrates jQuery to use on() (#4714)
• Fixes the way that ajaxurl is built for better SSL and multisite support
• Add the ‘buddypress’ class to the <body> tag when viewing BP content (#4836)

BP 1.7 Developers and Contributors

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