| 1 | # What's new? |
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| 3 | ## Introducing the BP REST API |
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| 5 | BuddyPress 5.0.0 comes with REST API endpoints for members, groups, activities, users, private messages, screen notifications and extended profiles (we plan to ship the remaining endpoints in our next major release). |
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| 6 | BuddyPress endpoints provide machine-readable external access to your WordPress site with a clear, standards-driven interface, paving the way for new and innovative methods of interacting with your community through plugins, themes, apps, and beyond. Ready to get started with development? Check out the BP REST API reference. |
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| 8 | ## A new UI to manage Group members. |
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| 10 | The best way to show the power of the BP REST API is to start using it for one of our Core features. Whether you need to manage group members from the group screen of your WordPress Administration dashboard or from the single group management area on the front end, it's now more dynamic and faster in both places. Thanks to the BP REST API and JavaScript, the same UI is used in both contexts! |
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| 12 | ## Improved Group invites and membership requests. |
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| 14 | Thanks to the new BP Invitations API, Group invites and membership requests are now managed in a more consistent way. The BP Invitations API abstracts how these two actions are handled and allows developers to use them for any object on your site (e.g., Sites of a WordPress network). |
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| 16 | ## Help our support volunteers help you. |
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| 18 | Knowing your WordPress and BuddyPress configuration is very important when one of our beloved support volunteers tries to help you fix an issue. That's why we added a BuddyPress section to the Site Health Info Administration screen. |
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| 19 | The panel is displayed at the bottom of the screen. It includes the BuddyPress version, active components, active template pack, and a list of other component-specific settings information. |
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| 21 | ## Improved Integrations with WordPress |
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| 22 | First, we've polished the BP Nouveau template pack's integration with the Twenty Nineteen WordPress theme. Second, this template pack is now using the same password form controls as WordPress Core. Third, we added a new BuddyPress Blocks category in the Block Editor. |
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| 23 | Keeping things organized inside the block inserter is important. Having a specific BuddyPress category will help our end-users find BuddyPress blocks faster. If you're a block developer, please use this category for your BuddyPress blocks. You can read more about it in this development note. |
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| 25 | ## Your feedback |
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| 26 | How are you using BuddyPress? Receiving your feedback and suggestions for future versions of BuddyPress genuinely motivates and encourages our contributors. Please share your feedback about this version of BuddyPress on our website. |
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| 28 | Thank you for using BuddyPress! 😊 |
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