BuddyPress 12.0 to Focus on Merging BP Rewrites Into Core, Moving Legacy Widgets Into BP Classic Plugin
During the most recent BuddyPress development meeting, contributors decided to focus the upcoming 12.0 release on merging the BP Rewrites feature plugin into core. This plugin is the result of a ten-year-old effort to migrate BuddyPress’ custom URI parser to use WordPress’ Rewrite API. One year ago, BP Rewrites went into beta. It’s not certain how the change will interact with different plugins, so BP developers recommended it be tested for at least two major BuddyPress core releases before considering a merge. Early testers uncovered many incompatibilities and conflicts with various BuddyPress features. In order to move forward confidently with support for users who may experience plugin conflicts, BP Rewrites’ maintainers have decided to create a new plugin that will provide backward compatibility. This new plugin will be called BP Classic and will also contain BuddyPress’ legacy widgets, a change that BuddyPress core developer Mathieu Viet said “will be our first move towards progressively rebooting BuddyPress.” BP 9.0.0 (released July 2021) gave users the ability to transform legacy widgets into a block with two clicks. Moving these widgets out into BP Classic will be a significant step towards their eventual retirement. The BP Attachments Add-on, a new component for managing BuddyPress…
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