Building Updates

• A New Coat of Paint: Say Hello to Our New Theme!

  

  You’ve probably noticed that we’ve made some major changes to the look and feel of Knowledge Commons. The new look for Knowledge Commons has been a long time coming and we hope you like the new design! However, such a redesign is not merely a lick of paint. It requires deep technical integration and care…

• Getting external access to BuddyPress’s notifications (or: distributing Knowledge Commons)

  Crossposted from Martin Paul Eve, “Getting external access to BuddyPress’s notifications (for Knowledge Commons)”, https://eve.gd, February 18, 2025, https://doi.org/10.59348/gpbaz-kx09. As part of my work on Knowledge Commons, I want to make more of our development process open, welcoming, and transparent, by using blogging. So I will be writing some technical posts on what I’m doing…

• Rebuilding Commons Search

  This fall we launched KCWorks, our brand-new, modern, really awesome document repository. But did you know we also launched a new search application, written from the ground up for Knowledge Commons? Well, we did! Search is not flashy. It’s something that’s meant to fade into the background and be taken for granted. If you think…

• Our quest toward modern application architecture

  Over the last 18 months, the Commons tech team has been on a quest to modernize our development process and software architecture. Most significantly, we have moved from a workflow where development and testing happens remotely, and code updates to the site are made on-the-fly, to one where development happens locally and code is deployed…

• Building the Commons Update: July 2023

  In the first half of the year, our focus has been on improving our backend infrastructure and building strong foundations for future development. As we move into the second half of 2023, we will continue to improve our backend but you should start to see more user-facing improvements as a result of that work. Later…

• Building the Commons Update: May 2023

  Over the past month The Commons hasn’t had any significant user-facing updates, but we have many some behind-the-scenes improvements and we have been making steady progress on many projects. To better communicate all of these projects, we have created a public roadmap on the Building blog. If want an overview of all the things we’re…

• Building the Commons Update: April 2023

  Here’s another update on what the Commons development team has been up to in the last month! Recent Developments This month we didn’t deploy any new functionality. However, we did make a couple of small changes to the site that I think are illustrative for understanding the nature of development work on the Commons and…

• Building the Commons Update: March 2023

  To keep our users updated and engaged with our work maintaining and improving the Commons, we are beginning a series of monthly development updates that will look at what we’ve accomplished recently, what we expect to be releasing soon, and what we’re working on for the future. As always, we really appreciate feedback and input…