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<dt style="float: left; width: 6em; font-weight: bold">Author</dt> <dd>imath</dd>
<dt style="float: left; width: 6em; font-weight: bold">Date</dt> <dd>2023-06-24 09:23:04 +0000 (Sat, 24 Jun 2023)</dd>
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<pre style='padding-left: 1em; margin: 2em 0; border-left: 2px solid #ccc; line-height: 1.25; font-size: 105%; font-family: sans-serif'>User docs: add a "getting started" page to the handbook
Fixes <a href="http://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8926">#8926</a>
Closes https://github.com/buddypress/buddypress/pull/120</pre>
<h3>Modified Paths</h3>
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<li><a href="#trunkdocsuserREADMEmd">trunk/docs/user/README.md</a></li>
<li><a href="#trunkdocsusermanifestjson">trunk/docs/user/manifest.json</a></li>
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<h3>Added Paths</h3>
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<li>trunk/docs/user/getting-started/</li>
<li><a href="#trunkdocsusergettingstartedREADMEmd">trunk/docs/user/getting-started/README.md</a></li>
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<span class="info" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px; color: #888">--- trunk/docs/user/README.md 2023-06-22 04:08:38 UTC (rev 13505)
+++ trunk/docs/user/README.md 2023-06-24 09:23:04 UTC (rev 13506)
</span><span class="lines" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px; color: #888">@@ -2,4 +2,5 @@
</span><span class="cx" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px">
</span><span class="cx" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px"> Welcome to the BuddyPress User Handbook.
</span><span class="cx" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px">
</span><ins style="background-color: #dfd; text-decoration:none; display:block; padding: 0 10px">+- [Getting started](./getting-started/README.md)
</ins><span class="cx" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px"> - [BuddyPress Administration](./administration/README.md)
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<a id="trunkdocsusergettingstartedREADMEmd"></a>
<div class="addfile"><h4 style="background-color: #eee; color: inherit; margin: 1em 0; padding: 1.3em; font-size: 115%">Added: trunk/docs/user/getting-started/README.md</h4>
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<span class="info" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px; color: #888">--- trunk/docs/user/getting-started/README.md (rev 0)
+++ trunk/docs/user/getting-started/README.md 2023-06-24 09:23:04 UTC (rev 13506)
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</span><ins style="background-color: #dfd; text-decoration:none; display:block; padding: 0 10px">+# Getting Started
+
+Welcome to BuddyPress! This section will help you set up your new BuddyPress-powered site as Super/Site Administrator.
+
+## To run BuddyPress, you need WordPress!
+
+BuddyPress is a WordPress plugin. If you haven't installed WordPress yet, please read this [step-by-step plan](https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/get-started-with-wordpress/) of the WordPress Documentation. The latest stable BuddyPress version will always support the latest stable WordPress version. BuddyPress shines brightest when run on the newest available version of WordPress – we optimize for the latest and greatest. For this reason, the BuddyPress team strongly recommends that all WordPress installations be kept up to date. However, we strive to maintain support for a number of legacy WordPress versions – generally, four or five major versions. Near the beginning of each development cycle, we reassess BuddyPress’s minimum required WP version. Our rough guidelines are as follows:
+
+- If a WordPress version became obsolete over a year ago, it’s a candidate for removal. See the [WordPress releases history](https://wordpress.org/news/category/releases/) for a list of WP release dates.
+- If a WordPress version’s use slips below 5% of all WP installations, it’s a strong candidate for removal. See the [WordPress statistics](https://wordpress.org/about/stats/) for information about WordPress version usage.
+
+To know if your WordPress version is supported by BuddyPress, please check our [releases history](https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/) for the list of BuddyPress release versions and WordPress version compatibility.
+
+## Other requirements
+
+- BuddyPress does not work on installations where [you give WordPress its own directory](https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/giving-wordpress-its-own-directory/).
+- Folder name for any subdirectory or subdomain WordPress/BuddyPress installation must be in lowercase.
+- PHP must have the GD or imagick modules installed (on the server) to allow re-sizing of images; BP avatar uploads will fail without one of these modules activated (WP will simply fail to create image sizes for posts but won’t show an error)
+
+## Get BuddyPress!
+
+### Use latest stable version
+
+The easiest way to get it is from your WordPress Dashboard. Log-in your WordPress Administration, Click on your Plugins / Add New submenu and if you don't find BuddyPress into the Featured Plugins list, type `BuddyPress` inside the search field and you should find BuddyPress as the first search result. Click on the "Install now" button and you're done!
+
+Alternatively, you can download a zip Archive of BuddyPress from our [Plugin page on the official WordPress.org Plugin directory](https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress/). Click on the blue "Download" button and once you got it, go to the same Plugins / Add New WordPress Administration screen, but this time click on the "Upload Plugin" button at the right of the Screen's title. A form to upload the zip Archive you downloaded will appear. Browse your computer files to find this Archive and click on the "Install now" button and you're done!
+
+### Use the development version
+
+**Please make sure to use this version inside your development environment only!**
+
+This [page of our official site](https://buddypress.org/download/) is informing about how you can get it using SVN or Git. It also contains a link about how you can [get involved](https://codex.buddypress.org/participate-and-contribute/) into BuddyPress contribution.
+
+NB: If you want to contribute to this documentation, you can [fork the BuddyPress GitHub repository](https://github.com/buddypress/buddypress/fork) edit files within the `/docs` directory and submit your edits as pull requests!
+
+## Next steps
+
+- Activate BuddyPress
+- Set up BuddyPress
</ins></span></pre></div>
<a id="trunkdocsusermanifestjson"></a>
<div class="modfile"><h4 style="background-color: #eee; color: inherit; margin: 1em 0; padding: 1.3em; font-size: 115%">Modified: trunk/docs/user/manifest.json</h4>
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<span class="info" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px; color: #888">--- trunk/docs/user/manifest.json 2023-06-22 04:08:38 UTC (rev 13505)
+++ trunk/docs/user/manifest.json 2023-06-24 09:23:04 UTC (rev 13506)
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</span><span class="cx" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px"> {
</span><ins style="background-color: #dfd; text-decoration:none; display:block; padding: 0 10px">+ "title": "Getting Started",
+ "slug": "getting-started",
+ "markdown_source": "../user/getting-started/README.md",
+ "parent": null
+ },
+ {
</ins><span class="cx" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px"> "title": "BuddyPress Administration",
</span><span class="cx" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px"> "slug": "administration",
</span><span class="cx" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px"> "markdown_source": "../user/administration/README.md",
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