BuddyPress 2.8.0 “San Matteo” is now available for download from the WordPress.org plugin repository, or right from your WordPress Dashboard. “San Matteo” focuses on various improvement for developers, site builders and site managers.

Status Update There were three BP major releases (2.5.0, 2.6.0, and 2.7.0) and 18 minor releases by the all-volunteer BuddyPress contributors in 2016…

BuddyPress 2.8 will be released in a couple of weeks, and it’s time for our community to start considering release leads for BuddyPress 2.9 and 3.0. Our experiments with the release lead role over the last year have worked out well, and for BuddyPress 2.9 and onwards, we’re opening up the nomination process publicly.

Here’s the scenario: you build WordPress-powered sites for a living, or maybe for free, or even just as a hobby. Someone asks you to build their next site using a feature or two from BuddyPress.

BuddyPress comes with all the profile and group pages it needs to access core settings and content. Sometimes you add a plugin to your site that’s not a BuddyPress plugin but you want to have a page on the profile to display this extra content.

Assume that you are running a BuddyPress site and you have multiple profile field groups. Now, if you don’t want some of the field groups to be visible to certain users, you can…

Jeff Chandler write in his step-by-step guide how to use Invite Anyone plugin, created by BuddyPress lead developer Boone Gorges. Jeff recommends this plugin if you use BuddyPress and need a free solution that implements a user invitation system.

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Adds shortcode to show content based on Buddypress profile field

Sends birthday emails to members on their birthdays