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What I Like (And Dislike) About WordPress 3.0

Rohan Kapoor — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:01:22 +0000

A couple of weeks ago WordPress (the software that powers this site), popped up a notification that version 3.0 Thelonius was ready to download and install. I held off on the upgrade for a while because of many problems I have had upgrading from version to version with WordPress. I have to admit though I was very pleasantly surprised with the ease of the installation. I simply hit upgrade, entered my ftp information and waited for it to think. A little less than a minute later, I was running WordPress 3.0. It was absolutely amazing, there were no problems, it just worked. This was a great change from version upgrades before, many times they have broken compatibility with lots of plugins (WordPress 2.8 for example) and broken the theme. This time, all of my plugins worked, the theme worked and there was absolutely nothing that needed changing at all. What I found incredible is that they were able to combine WordPress Multiple User directly into WordPress 3.0. On my one internal testing site (on localhost), I was able to update directly from WPMU to WP 3.0 also with no problems.

WordPress 3.0 ships with a new theme called TwentyTen. Kubrick (which has been the default theme for a while) has finally been replaced with something that is fully compliant with Web 2.0 standards and looks amazing. The only reason that I’m not using it myself is because while it is an amazing theme, it isn’t “techie” enough for my liking. It’s still a great theme, but I probably won’t be using it, at least not for this site.

However, as amazing as WordPress 3.0 is; it still (like everything) has it shortcomings. Namely compatibility with BuddyPress 1.2.4.1. While the basic install of BuddyPress is still as easy as ever, the combination with bbPress is broken again. Now attempting to enable the bbPress portion of BuddyPress results in a bb-config.php being created, no database tables being created, and an overall total mess. Basically the forums function is completely broken and this makes a large portion of BuddyPress and by extension WordPress useless. This is a rather large bug and whether it is with WordPress 3.0, BuddyPress 1.2.4.1 or with the version of bbPress included in the BuddyPress install, it needs to be found and fixed quickly.

Automattic is rather good at putting out bugfixes and I’m sure that once they know about it, they and the full team of Open Source Developers behind WordPress, BuddyPress, and bbPress will patch this bug and everything will be working again. It will just take a little bit (more) time!

Released bbPress Favicon

Rohan Kapoor — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:37:09 +0000

I just released bbPress Favicon the companion plugin to WordPress/MU Favicon. It does exactly the same thing WordPress/MU Favicon does except does it for the bbPress sitewide and the bbPress admin pages. You can see the Changelog for those that are interested!

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1.0

First Release
Working with 1.x

New bbPress Admin Updated… Again!

Rohan Kapoor — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:52:02 +0000

I released version 3.0 of New bbPress Admin today! This version is mainly a bugfix release with no new functionality. You can see the changelog for more details.

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3.0

Successfully stops the Login/Logout Problem
Successfully stops the Headers Being Sent Problem
As Far As I Can Tell, It Is A Bug Free Release
Works with WP/WPMU 2.8.x and bbPress 1.x

2.1 Beta

Attempts to solve the Login/Logout Problem
Attempst to solve the headers Being Sent Problem

2.0

Second Version of bbPress Admin. It has been adapted to have a backend interface to set the forums directory.
Looks Neater and is much easier to use.
Works with WP/WPMU 2.8.2 and bbPress 1.0.1

1.0

First Version of bbPress Admin. It is very simple and rudimentary at this point.
Working with WP/WPMU 2.8.1 and bbPress 1.0.1

You can view the plugin page here. Or download directly from the WordPress Plugin Repository here.

Currently version 3.0 is the most stable version with no bugs that I know of!

Enjoy

New bbPress Admin Updated!

Rohan Kapoor — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:04:28 +0000

New bbPress Admin was officially updated last week to version 2.0. This adds a lot of stability along with a few other functions. The changelog details more…

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2.0

Second Version of bbPress Admin. It has been adapted to have a backend interface to set the forums directory.
Looks Neater and is much easier to use.
Works with WP/WPMU 2.8.2 and bbPress 1.0.1

1.0

First Version of bbPress Admin. It is very simple and rudimentary at this point.
Working with WP/WPMU 2.8.1 and bbPress 1.0.1

You can find the plugin at it’s homepage. Right now Version 2.0 is stable however there are a few small bugs that are being worked on! Version 2.1 is in BETA on SVN!

Additionally, the homepage of New bbPress Admin has been updated so that it shows the most recent information (almost identical to the information on the http://wordpress.org plugin page.