BuddyPress 2.0 “Juliana” got released recently with improvements to the activity stream, administrative tools and focused towards better performance.

BuddyPress 2.0 is named by Juliana’s Pizza in Brooklyn, NY

BuddyPress 2.0 primarily revolves around making it even more user friendly with new tools and improve performance by streamlining queries.

Also Read: Arrival of WordPress 3.9 “Smith”

Highlight of BuddyPress 2.0

Extended Profile:

The Extended Profile option has been integrated with user interface where you can manage profile data, avatars, user status, and other profile related fields (Dashboard > Users interface)

Manage Pending Users:

Check out the list of signups that have not yet been activated. You can also perform useful tasks like manual account activation and resending activation emails.(Dashboard > Users)

Useful Repair Tools:

Some really useful repair tools has been introduced to make sure your BuddyPress setup is never out of sync. If there is any issue you can use the3se tools to make sure your site is back on track instantly.

Spam User Management:

The WordPress Multisite spam management system has been introduced for the non-Multisite installations as well, this will be very effective to make your site clean

Better Activity Stream:

The activity stream has been improved on BuddyPress 2.0, now there is a much better interaction between activity and blog comments. Also, teh system will inform you when there is new items waiting for you.

Performance Improvements:

Now, the most important development of BuddyPress 2.0 is the improved performance, personally I always wanted BuddyPress to look at and do something about improving loading time.

Sometimes, it becomes really frustrating when you need to wait every time the site loads.

The most successful BuddyPress sites are highly dynamic, with a steady stream of new visitors and new content. This dynamic nature means that BuddyPress is a highly database-driven platform, and database performance is often a bottleneck when it comes to scaling BP sites. BuddyPress 2.0 tackles this problem head-on.

We’ve streamlined some of the most common problematic queries – such as those in the Members and Activity directories – to shave up to 95% of the query time off of certain individual queries.

By Boone Gorges BuddyPress

Now the paragraph above says it all, the team has given a lot of importance on improving performance of your BuddyPress setup which will be really effective & easier to scale up your site.

Article Via BuddyPress