Andy Fragen

Peter Westwood

Colin Stewart

Paul Biron

Maura Teal

<p>This plugin provides an easy way to get involved with beta testing WordPress.</p>
<p>Once installed it will enable you to upgrade your website to the latest Nightly, Beta, or Release Candidate at the click of a button using the built in upgrader.</p>
<p>By default once enabled it switches your website onto the point release update channel.</p>
<p>For the more adventurous there is the option to switch to the bleeding edge (trunk) of development.</p>
<p>Don’t forget to backup before you start!</p>
<p>Please enable auto-updates for this plugin to ensure future changes are properly handled with core updates.</p>
<h3>Extra Settings</h3>
<p>There is a setting to <strong>Skip successful autoupdate emails</strong>.  It functions to disable sending emails to the admin user for successful autoupdates. Only emails indicating failures of the autoupdate process are sent.</p>
<p>There is a setting to <strong>Skip bundled plugins and themes</strong>. It functions to disable the installation of any plugins or themes that are bundled with the Core update.</p>
<p>PRs are welcome on <a href="https://github.com/afragen/wordpress-beta-tester" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.</p>


WordPress Beta Tester

This plugin works great, as advertised.

A lot of people complain that you can't revert the DB changes. I bet (hope) that they are not plugin developers. The plugin warns you about this. You are meant to keep a backup of your site first. If you are testing in a container such as docker or a VM, then it's even easier.

This highlights the issue that user reviews are not always reliable. A lot of users click on plugins and run arbitrary code on their sites without even reading the readme, then they come here and complain. Makes you wonder if there should be a feature on this site for users to rate the usefulness of reviews. Oh well, I'm getting side-tracked!

Anyway, thanks for a great plugin.


Must-have for any theme or plugin developer

When I activated my plugins page returns 503: Server runs out of time. Deactivated this plugin and all back to normal. Not recommended for 4.8.3!

Not recommended for 4.8.3

Great plugin to install beta releases for testing plugins and themes.
It would be helpful to see information about version numbers which will be installed.


Great for testing beta releases but missing information about version numbers


This is just brilliant. It allows anyone to test out the beta and see if everything works - Nice work here! I only found out about this from the WPBUILDS podcast - needs more promotion - its fantastic! 


What a fantastic facility!


As a plugin developer, I need this extension to be able to test my plugin against future versions before the officiale release.


Mandatory for a plugin developer!


Seems to work as expected. Great tool to test plugins before release and ensure they are compatible with the next Wordpress release. So thank you for the plugin. 


Great tool


Perfect for developers to test plugins with new versions of WP. 


Working great

Allows you to easily upgrade for testing the next versions of WordPress.

John James Jacoby

Boone Gorges

Michael Beckwith

Venutius

Slava Abakumov

r-a-y

modemlooper

David Bisset

Andy Peatling

shanebp

Tammie Lister

Stephen Edgar

Paul Wong-Gibbs

David Cavins

Hugo Ashmore

@mercime

Henry

danbp

Renato Alves

Laurens Offereins

Mathieu Viet

<p><strong>Get involved into building the BuddyPress’ next way of parsing URLs!</strong></p>
<p>BP Rewrites is a BuddyPress feature as a plugin which end goal is to be merged with BuddyPress Core. It’s being developed and maintained by the official BuddyPress development team. As migrating the BP Legacy URL parser to using the WP Rewrites API is potentially a breaking change for some BuddyPress plugins and themes, the BuddyPress team needs the BuddyPress users, contributors & developers to massively test this feature before safely including it into BuddyPress Core.</p>
<p>Please help us meeting this challenge by testing the BP Rewrites plugin with your specific configurations (Plugins, theme, bp-custom.php file, constants).</p>
<h4>Benefits about using the WP Rewrite API</h4>
<ul>
<li>All BuddyPress generated URLs are customizable.</li>
<li>BuddyPress is fully compatible with plain URL permalinks.</li>
<li>Parsing BuddyPress URLs is faster, more reliable, extensible, testable and fully compliant with WordPress best practices.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>PS: combined with BuddyPress 11.0, the BP Rewrites plugin is also adding a new BuddyPress Settings option to restrict the BuddyPress generated pages (aka the community area of your site) to your members only.</strong></p>
<h4>How BP Rewrites changes BuddyPress’ behavior?</h4>
<p>Once activated, The plugin is editing the post type of the existing BuddyPress pages in favor of the <code>buddypress</code> post type. That’s why you don’t see the BuddyPress pages anymore (as long as the BP Rewrites plugin is active) into the corresponding WordPress Administation edit screen. The BuddyPress Pages settings screen is replaced by a BuddyPress URLs settings screen (see the screenshot below). This new screen is where you can define custom slugs which will be saved as a post meta of the corresponding <code>buddypress</code> post type item. Then the BP Rewrites plugin is taking benefit from BuddyPress hooks/APIs to change BP Core’s behavior.</p>
<p>If you notice one of your BuddyPress plugins or your theme are not behaving the way they should, please temporarly define the <code>WP_DEBUG</code> constant to <code>true</code> into the <code>wp-config.php</code> file of your website. You should see some warning notices confirming there’s an issue involving changes introduced by the BP Rewrites add-on. You can tell us about it using this plugin’s support forum or best submitting an issue into the <a href="https://github.com/buddypress/bp-rewrites" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repository</a> of the plugin.</p>
<h4>How to get regular BuddyPress’ behavior back?</h4>
<p>Simply deactivate BP Rewrites. When you deactivate the plugin, the <code>buddypress</code> post type’s items are switched back to regular pages and you get them back into the corresponding WordPress Administation edit screen. Post metas are still there in case you want to activate BP Rewrites again (this can happen when you’re testing another BuddyPress plugin). If you absolutely want to get rid of these post metas, you can delete the BuddyPress pages, create new ones and redo the page mapping from the BuddyPress Pages settings screen.</p>
<h4>Join our community</h4>
<p>If you’re interested in contributing to BuddyPress, we’d love to have you. Head over to the <a href="https://codex.buddypress.org/participate-and-contribute/" rel="nofollow ugc">BuddyPress Documentation</a> site to find out how you can pitch in.</p>
<p>Growing the BuddyPress community means better software for everyone!</p>


BP Rewrites


Migrating the BuddyPress legacy URL Parser to using the WP Rewrite API is a very important change. Please help us achieve it.


Let's progress on this needed migration process

The BP Rewrites plugin is a BuddyPress add-on giving you the full control of any BuddyPress generated URLs.

WordPress Beta Tester vs BP Rewrites