Make BuddyPress preview available in WP Playground

[imath]

Hi!

I just saw this notice on our plugin's WP.org plugin page:

Can someone volunteer to perform the following checklist tasks:

​Test your plugin in Playground
Fix any bugs in your plugin that prevent it from working in Playground.
​Download blueprint.json
Commit your blueprint to svn.

If everything's fine, please add a patch or a PR to include the blueprint to the repo.

Thanks in advance for your help.

[espellcaste]

I’d be willing to do this. I was about to for one of my plugins…

[imath]

As requested by @espellcaste

I've just added this blueprint file: ​https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/buddypress/assets/blueprints/blueprint.json

Then the Preview button appeared at the right of the Plugin's page Download button: here's the link of this button: ​https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress/?preview=1

Unlike what is written into this doc: ​https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-org/previews-and-blueprints/ I don't see anything into the Advanced View of the plugin page allowing me to make this preview button public.

It looks like even after having logged out and log in again, Playground doesn't keep information about the logged in user, in the screenshot below, Admin should be listed into the Last Active members.

I guess the fact BuddyPress can't get information about the logged in user, it can explain the error that is displayed when posting an activity:

Finally, by default plain permalinks are active: it's great we are now supporting these since we migrated from our Legacy URL parser to the BP Rewrites API.

Possible improvements: create a wp-navigation for Twenty Twenty-four including items for our directories.

[espellcaste]

Moving this ticket to @imath for completion since he has the necessary permissions to properly test it.

[imath]

After some debugging it looks like DB tables are not created as soon as one of the field is having the bool type.

Updates BuddyPress db tables schema so that it uses tinyint fields instead of boolean ones. This is required to have WP Playground work as expected.

NB: this move is requiring a major version to be achieved.

Trac ticket: ​https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9126

[imath]

In 13907:

Make sure BuddyPress can be previewed using WP Playground

Props espellcaste

Fixes #9126
Closes ​https://github.com/buddypress/buddypress/pull/287