Hi @mike2972
Thanks a lot for your review & sorry to read about your issues.
BuddyPress version 12.0.0 doesn’t break sites or communities. The best way to figure it out is to start a fresh install of WordPress and only activate BuddyPress 12.0.0.
But you’re right, when updating to 12.0.0, as we’ve been informing for almost a year, some admins need to take precautions because of some of the 3rd party plugins they installed :
- Version 11.0 added (into its Hello modal that opens when you activate BuddyPress for the first time) announcement about the fact we would make a big shift in 12.0.0 and we would make a backwards compatibility add-on available because we were anticipating some 3rd party plugins or themes wouldn’t be ready for the change.
- we had a 5 months beta period and repeated about the important need for plugins and themes to test our pre-releases to be ready for the best of you and other users.
- we’ve built the BP Classic plugin to bring the backwards compatibility to specific configurations like yours informing since 12.0.0-beta1 : if your 3rd party BP plugins were not updated for the last 4 months, or if you are still using the BP Default theme (we deprecated 10 years ago) or if you are still using BP Legacy widgets, please activate BP Classic.
- In 11.4.0 we added a new feature: Admin notifications to display a message to site admin about BP Classic
- We’ve updated the readme.txt to also warn users about the major changes.
- we’ve added developer and user documentation about the change
- we’re now helping users like you from our support forum.
We took actions to prevent such a situation to happen, the only thing we couldn’t do is perform the update of your site or update the code of 3rd party plugins & themes (mostly premium).
We can’t bring great new features and at the same time do not touch our code. The 1 star of your review seems very unfair with the work the BuddyPress Core team achieved during this year.
