BP Rewrites Feature Plugin Now in Beta
The ball is moving on a nine-year-old effort to migrate BuddyPress’ custom URI parser to use WordPress’ Rewrite API. BuddyPress currently requires sites to use pretty permalinks in order to be compatible with its URL parser. The plugin analyzes the URL for whatever component you are viewing and performs internal checks to decide what to display there and determine the proper template file. This custom parser has been working well for years but has some drawbacks compared to WordPress’ newer Rewrite API. BuddyPress lead developer Boone Gorges summarized the problem in the original ticket: BP’s custom URI parser (living mostly in bp_core_set_uri_globals()) is slow, error-prone, non-extensible, non-testable, and out of step with WP best practices. In August of 2021, BuddyPress contributors moved this effort into the BP Rewrites feature plugin with the eventual goal of getting it merged into BP Core after wider testing. The first beta was released this week with a call for testing before it gets moved to the WordPress plugin directory. BP Rewrites isn’t just an under-the-hood architectural improvement for BuddyPress, it also has several user-facing benefits: BuddyPress URLs customization improved and easierCompatibility with plain permalinksImproved Compliance with WordPress StandardsImproved User/Advanded user/Plugin developer/Theme designer BuddyPress experience Users…
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