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If you run a BuddyPress-based social network, then you know that how much spam you can receive without any measure in place to block the bots. The new BuddyPress reCAPTCHA plugin makes use of the Google reCAPTCHA Service on the BuddyPress registration page, which is located at: located in ‘/wp-content/themes/{name}/registration/register.php’.
BuddyPress plugin developers have been busy bees in the past few months. Most of these plugins offer small, helpful features that would be well-suited to nearly every BuddyPress community. Not all are hosted in the WordPress repository, so grab a cup of coffee and check out all the latest from the BuddyPress ninjas.
BP Custom Background For User Profile
This plugin was created by Brajesh Singh of BuddyDev.com. It gives your BuddyPress site members custom background images for their profile pages. A user can upload a new image and set it as his profile background image.
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We just passed a bit of a milestone at WPMU DEV, over 100,000 downloads of our plugins freely released at WordPress.org.
Sure, there are plenty of individual plugins on the repository with numbers well over that individually, but the fact that we’ve done that in the space of a few months and clearly met some pretty significant needs within the WP community, while we’ve been at it, is surely cause for some celebration :)
The numbers
Our top 5 downloaded plugins have been:
Membership – currently with 24,367 downloads, it’s our only slightly limited version of the best hotdamn membership plugin on the planet
BP Labs is a cool new plugin written by core developer Paul Gibbs for the purpose of testing out some new BuddyPress experiments. Paul recently announced BP Labs 1.2-beta-1 which begins testing for Akismet integration for the BuddyPress activity stream.
The BP Labs 1.2-beta-1 includes:
Added caching to @mentions autosuggest; it speeds up multiple requests for the same query
Added Activity Stream Spam experiment
Breaking News: BuddyPress 1.5 Beta is here… Yes, you read that correctly! We’re jumping ahead to version 1.5!
The BuddyPress development team has shipped 9 point releases since 1.2 was released in February of 2010, so the latest version will leap frog the version number from 1.2.9 up to 1.5. A developer beta 1 has been sent out into the wild for testing.
Take a look at how far BuddyPress has come since 1.2 was released:
792 tickets closed
494 confirmed bug fixes
2,161 total code changes since 1.2 was released
Brajesh Singh is at it again, cranking out awesome plugins for BuddyPress. His latest one is the BuddyPress Group Suggest Widget. This new plugin will suggest groups to a user, based on the ones his friends have already joined.
Similar to the BuddyPress Friends Suggest Widget, the plugin allows users to hide the suggestions that they would prefer not to see in the future.
The admin can assign a title to the widget and set the number of suggestions that appear to the user.
The BuddyPress Group Suggest Widget is available for free from the BuddyDev.com website.
We’ve been working long and hard on an e-commerce solution for WordPress users that will enable you to build your own online social marketplace. We’re excited to present MarketPress, the easiest-to-use and most full-featured plugin currently available for creating a WordPress-powered store. Use it for a single store or expand your business by opening multiple stores with MarketPress’s seamless WP Multisite and BuddyPress integration.
