Though the plugin’s still some time away, I’ve decided on the plugins that I’ll be building support into Achievements 3.0 for. The plugins which I’ll be supporting in core are:
For any developers interested in the future of Achievements (v3.0), I have decided to move Achievements development onto Github (here). I’ve been looking for a good reason to try to learn a new VCS for some time, and since Achievements is undergoing a total rewrite, I didn’t have to worry about tracking any archive data out of SVN, it was a good fit.
Achievements is my #1 dev. priority for the first part of 2012, so consider it back on track.
I’ve just put out version 2.2 of Achievements, a small release to fix a couple of bugs:
1) Fix error when unlocking achievement when not using any of achievements’ widgets
2) Include up-to-date .pot file to fix internationalisation problems.
Get Achievements 2.2 from inside your WordPress or on WordPress.org.
Achievements 2.1 is now available, and it adds compatibility for, and now requires, BuddyPress 1.5. Don’t upgrade if you’re not on BP 1.5 yet.
Big thanks to T. J. Brumfield and r-a-y for providing patches that did 99% of the compatibility work!
Just a brief note: I am focusing on getting BuddyPress 1.3 to beta / shipped before I plan to switch back to Achievements. The goal is to re-engineer it to the very high standards that the new bbPress plugin has.
This will let me change the requirement on BuddyPress; if BuddyPress is present, you’ll see added BuddyPress-specific versions in wp-admin, otherwise you won’t.
Yes, you read that — the next major release of Achievements won’t require BuddyPress. Boom!
Sneak peak of part of the admin screen for Achievements 2.1
I am beginning to ramp up development on the next big version of Achievements (3.0). This will be a notable release as it will use WordPress’ post types and custom taxonomies. It will also be the best BuddyPress plugin possible, taking advantage of things that I’ve learnt since the 2.0 release.
One of the decisions I’ve taken is to move the new/edit achievement screen from the front end into the backend (wp-admin). Attached to this article is a small screenshot of an early version of a new meta box panel which will sit in the sidebar of the screen.
I’ve just pushed out the 2.0.7 release of Achievements for BuddyPress. What are the changes? I’m glad you asked:
Download: Achievements for BuddyPress 2.0.7
In other news, work on 2.1 is a little held up by a client project, and also because some careful thinking about changes to the user interface is required. I’ve therefore decided to resume work on the 2.0 branch of Achievements for BuddyPress for fixes and small new features.
