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  • Keymaster
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    Brajesh Singh on January 25, 2026 at 11:45 pm #55993

    Hi Peter,
    Thank you for the reply and sharing your concerns.
    I am glad our plugins and code have been helpful in past.

    We are not building any for of BuddyPress/BuddyBoss. I am not sure if any such plugin exists for WordPress yet. We are building something for future and hope that it will become the most popular solution for building and growing communities.

    Since we are building our own solution, we have a lot of freedom to implement things in better ways. Our core and API would be fun to work with.

    Please take a look when it is available, and I hope you would love it.

    Regards
    Brajesh

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    Venutius on January 26, 2026 at 5:37 am #55995

    Hi Brajesh,

    I’ve decided to move platforms to ClassicPress and move away from WordPress entirely. And it’s looking unlikely that we will be in competition. That’s because I have decided to built my system into the operating system itself. And I am very far from worrying about social networking at the moment. I want to make sure that the underlying platform is safe, secure, and well managed.

    I’m moving to a more environmentally focussed future, and I see that by influencing platforms to reduce their bloat, we can have faster, better servers that reduce environmental impacts as they develop and not increase them for the sake of shifting the product to a commercial footing.

    But I can help you integrate your product with ClassicPress, when it is ready. I have a scanner for function and jquery deprecations.

    I’m also getting a good understanding of their additional relational databases, and User Group Categories. I will be using it for my own Messaging API.

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    Peter Gibson on January 26, 2026 at 6:25 am #55996

    Hi Brajesh,

    thank you for your reply. To make one thing clear:

    Quote:
    “That the developer side has not managed over all these years to simply transfer existing WordPress functionality — such as media handling and post creation — to the BuddyPress layer is a mystery to me and was certainly a cardinal mistake.”

    This critical statement is directed at the (former) BuddyPress developers and not at anyone at BuddyDev.com.

    Of course, you are free to release another WordPress-based community platform, and I will be following with interest what kind of software will be released.

  • Keymaster
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    Brajesh Singh on January 26, 2026 at 3:01 pm #56001

    Hi George,
    Thank you for the reply.

    My best wises for you project. I hope it succeeds.

    Thank you for your offer to help and make it compatible with ClassicPress. I sincerely appreciate it and would love to have you take a look when we release the plugin.

    Thank you
    Brajesh

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    Brajesh Singh on January 26, 2026 at 3:03 pm #56002

    Hi Peter,
    Thank you.

    I had the idea about that context. I still appreciate you clarifying it.

    Thank you for your interest in our upcoming project, I hope that you will like it.

    Regards
    Brajesh

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    Alex on February 5, 2026 at 6:51 pm #56080

    @Peter Gibson I agree with you on most things and don’t understand why Automattic doesn’t do anything to bring buddypress back on track.

    • This reply was modified 1 week, 3 days ago by Alex.
  • Participant
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    Venutius on February 13, 2026 at 5:51 am #56106

    ClassicPress seems to be on it’s last legs, unfortunately. It is open source in name only, too. It reminds me of the BP project. The last remaining active director won CP after a huge internal fight which saw most of the contributors leave.

    However, since we last spoke, I have been working on my projects for 18 hours a day, and this is the first time I’ve really stopped, and it means I have gained quite a bit of expertise.

    I’m just not into the block editor and all that stuff. As I see it, WP is moving in the wrong direction, BP is dead, and CP is in intensive care, and even my offer to help, was something that they could not cope with.

    But I’ve even been writing standards, and API’s, I’ve built around 70 experimental plugins, and know a great deal about resilience, now, and have much greater depth of knowledge in most areas. But yes, seems like an awful lot of work, just to allow me to develop my websites in line with my vision for them.

    I also think we are moving quickly to a place where our websites will never be seen. Not unless we pay the piper. So I’m even considering closing everything down.

    I’m not really sure what to do.

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    Venutius on February 15, 2026 at 1:54 am #56110

    I downed tools, did an entire drains up, and allowed myself to do what it most wanted. I noticed that I could not stop coding, coding and architecting are what I like doing. I am setting up an AI coding school.

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