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  • Ice

    Free sports community BuddyPress theme. Features: custom full width slider for perfect motoGP images, fully widget ready-made, built-in ad server, built-in options panel for full control over the front page, fluid layout, css3 enhanced, special BuddyPress profile page.
    Ice is a post from: Most inspiring BuddyPress websites – BPinspire.com

  • Neoncon

    Games community around board and cards games.
    Neoncon is a post from: Most inspiring BuddyPress websites – BPinspire.com

  • Return a list of sites on the network

    Here’s a simple internal function that will return a list of all sites in the network. The code below just shows them all and unlinked.

  • Theme Stats Updated

    I updated the theme stats plugin to work with new WordPress 3.0 networks as well as with MU installs upgraded to WordPress 3.0. You can download it here: WordPress Network Theme Stats.

    August 2, 2009 — WordPress MU Theme Stats (3)
    June 29, 2010 — BuddyPress Author Link (0)
    June 28, 2010 — Another Featured Posts update (12)
    June 27, 2010 — Network Privacy (9)
    June 21, 2010 — Everything you wanted to know about creating a network of multiple sites in 3.0 (45)

     
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  • 2010-07-21 Meetup

    :)

    IRC log from the meetup on July 21, 2010
    [21:02:40 GMT]    <jjj>    <meetup>
    [21:02:58 GMT]    <jjj>    Hi
    [21:03:05 GMT]    =-=    Nightgunner5 is now known as jjj5
    [21:03:09 GMT]    <jjj5>    Hi, jjj!
    [21:03:10 GMT]    <jjj>    Haha
    [21:03:15 GMT]    <chrishajer>    @ben jjjjj
    [21:03:30 GMT]    <jjj5>    [11:37:02am] <jjj3> we should do the dev chat with jjj-jjj5
    [21:03:30 GMT]    <jjj5>    [11:37:09am] <jjj3> that would be make up for some interesting logs
    [21:03:52 GMT]    –>|    SHRIKEE (~arnan@a91117.upc-a.chello.nl) has joined #bbpress
    [21:04:10 GMT]    <jjj>    Oh come on now… I’m not *that* good of a developer where I need to be cloned.
    [21:04:20 GMT]    =-=    jjj5 is now known as Nightgunner5
    [21:04:22 GMT]    <Nightgunner5>    Fine
    [21:04:26 GMT]    <jjj>    Hahaha
    [21:04:34 GMT]    <SHRIKEE>    but now youre only half as good
    [21:04:37 GMT]    <jjj>    Probably better off with more Nightgunners and chrishajer’s anyhow
    [21:05:11 GMT]    <chrishajer>    ch^5
    [21:05:29 GMT]    <chrishajer>    Gautam is asleep?
    [21:05:38 GMT]    <jjj>    So obviously todays…

  • Cardio Exchange

    Online community for medical professionals dedicated to improving cardiac patient care.
    Cardio Exchange is a post from: Most inspiring BuddyPress websites – BPinspire.com

  • Do you appreciate Akismet?

    If so, please take a moment to leave a short comment on this post letting us know!
    We’re working on a new site design and would love to include some new testimonials whether you just started being protected by Akismet or if it’s been safeguarding your site for 5+ years now.

  • Get some simple Network stats

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    I remembered this really neat internal function that is handy to display anywhere you want to show how many sites and users you have in your network.

    $stats = get_sitestats();
    echo ‘There are currently ‘.$stats[ 'blogs' ].’ sites running on this network and ‘.$stats[ 'users' ].’ users.’;

    Surround that in php tags.
    For added snazziness and extra bonus points on your homework, go grab a copy of the blank widget Blank Build-A-Widget (930) paste this code in there, and you’ve just made a network stats widget. Awesome, you rock
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  • WordCamp Montreal

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    Both Andrea & I will be speaking at WordCamp Montreal.

    Andrea & I have had a fantastic time at every WordCamp we have attended and we enjoy meeting other people who use WordPress. If you have never been to one, this will be a great one for you to attend. Whatever you are doing with WordPress, you can be sure that you’ll have a chance to talk to others who have been or are interested in doing the same

    June 9, 2010 — I went to WordCamp Chicago and all you get is this lousy blog post (2)
    June 9, 2010 — BuddyPress Child Themes (2)
    December 1, 2009 — More video from WordCamp New York (1)
    October 19, 2009 — WordCamp New York (1)

     
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  • WordPress Integration

    I think WordPress integration is the most important item on the roadmap for the future of bbPress.
    Why?
    One, it’s an embarrassing pain in the butt to do now. One of the most frequent questions here on our forums. You have to jump through endless loops, and end up with something worse than most of the WP plugins for forums.
    Two, we get the benefit of all the WordPress plugins and themes, which vastly outnumber our current options. Want private messaging? Use the BuddyPress plugin for it. Want OpenID? Stats? Sitemaps? There’s a plugin for that. Social network and profile features, in particular, are useful to the future of discussion forums and it’d be silly of us to duplicate that effort.
    Three, it’ll be a lot more efficient because right now if you actually do get integration going you’re getting all of WordPress and all of BackPress loaded at once,…

  • Change the default theme for sites without a plugin

    There’s a new and very little documented feature in 3.0 for changing the default theme. And? This will work on single WordPress installs as well as being handy for a network of sites.
    The magic line is this in your config file:
    define(‘WP_DEFAULT_THEME’, ‘classic’);
    In this example, the classic theme is used as the default when a site is created, or when a theme in use is removed. If you are starting fresh with 3.0, the default is the new TwentyTen, so this override is handy.
    Added tip: if you have a lot of blogs using the Kubrick theme and wanted to remove it and set the other blogs, do this define first with your new default theme, then remove or rename the Kubrick theme folder (in my it was simply “default”). On a refresh, all blogs using the Kubrick theme will be switched to your new default.
    If you…

  • Last updated sites widget

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    This is a handy little widget that will pull a list of all the sites in your network and order them by last updated. The code for this was originally in the home theme of the WPMU download, so thanks to Donncha for that bit.
    Last Updated Sites widget (39)
    I tested it in the mu-plugins folder, but you should also be able to use it as a regular plugin as it only needs to run on one blog. It’s also the older widget code, so you can only use it once, not multiple times, and it has no options. Short, sweet & simple.
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  • Get a list of the latest sites or blogs in the network

    From the archives (which are full of good things, btw) I revamped a post with an updated version of the List All plugin, and confirmed the Most Recent Blogs widget still worked. It does!
    So, if you’re looking to have a widget that will show the last ten blogs, go get it here.
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  • WP125 Ads Plugin

    We had a client who is using the WP125 Ads plugin. When they upgraded to WordPress 3.0, it was having an error. I fixed the error and forwarded it to our client. Other folks reported the same issue in this thread in the WP support forums. The author of the plugin posted and indicated he was going to be tied up for a bit. I have forward the update to the plugin author. At some point he will be releasing an updated version.
    In the mean time, you can download my updated version: WP125 Ads Plugin (74). If you have issues with it, please post those issues in the support thread linked above. I won’t be attempting to do other bug fixes or CSS changes.

    July 21, 2010 — Theme Stats Updated (0)
    June 29, 2010 — BuddyPress Author Link (0)
    June 28, 2010 — Another Featured Posts update (12)…

  • BuddyPress Support; introducing Boone and hnla

    We’re proud to announce that Boone Gorges and hnla have joined the BuddyPress Support team. Their knowledge of BuddyPress, site deployment, theme design and plugin development complements the existing team and will expand the range of topics we are able to help you with.
    Our support team, which also consists of Jeff Sayre, Paul Gibbs and Ray, frequently traffic the forums, help resolve problems, and share their advice and best practices. We’re all you’ve got, and we’re not so bad after we’ve had our coffee.
    As a general reminder, if you have a support question please try to provide the information detailed in this post; it really does help us help you.

  • Activity breeds activity

    Over the past few weeks we’ve released 3 bug fix versions of BuddyPress; more than we’ve released for the entire beginning of the year. What I noticed is that when development was slow, so were our support forums and so was the general buzz about the project. Since we’ve started patching bugs and cranking out bug fix releases again, things are picking back up which totally rocks.
    I think this is a great example of how activity breeds activity, and it reminded me that social networks and niche communities are as susceptible to becoming stagnant as normal WordPress blogs can be. Most of us have probably had a great idea for a website, spent the $10 on the domain name, installed WordPress, made a fancy theme, posted 3 updates and then for whatever reason, just lost interest in it.
    The same thing is totally possible with your social network, and…

  • WordPress for BlackBerry 1.3 Released

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    WordPress for BlackBerry version 1.3 has been released to BlackBerry App World.
    Depending on your region or country, you might not see the latest version in the BlackBerry App World, but on your device you should now already see the latest version 1.3.
    These features have been added in version 1.3:

    Option to load more comments, not just the latest 100
    Ability to load comments by status (all/spam/pendings)
    You can now edit the comment details (Author Name/E-mail/URL)
    Option to manually set the video-size when using VideoPress service
    A much requested formatting toolbar that allows you to bold text for example
    A new word count feature is shown on the post/page write screen
    You can now submit bug reports and feedback from within the app
    Multiple improvement to how Stats are handled
    Improvements on the photo resizing options and a new jpeg encoder is now being used

    The app now supports…

  • JooPad

    JooPad, a theme inspired by the iPad.
    JooPad is a post from: Most inspiring BuddyPress websites – BPinspire.com

  • BuddyPress 1.2.5.2

    A quick update from our release on June 29, BuddyPress 1.2.5.2 fixes a bug where marking a user as spam or attempting to delete them would result in the sky falling on your head. It also fixes a few other odds and ends from 1.2.5 which you can read at our release history.
    We’ve also bumped the WordPress version requirement up to 3.0. BuddyPress 1.2.5.2 has been tested to work with WordPress 2.9.2, but our mantra has always been to support the current version of WordPress and maintain backwards compatibility as much as possible.
    For the best possible BuddyPress experience (and for the security of your social network and your users) be sure to upgrade to WordPress 3.0.
    Happy social networking!

  • Did your user’s theme options and widgets page disappear?

    Well here’s a little bug that was discovered, though it’s not really a bug in WordPress itself, rather a change. It shows up in themes with higher-level capabilities attached to certain menu items.
    In 3.0, this was made more stringent with the merge. the theme editor was left in with only Super Admins having access to it. Regular site administrators should not have access.
    Some themes, however, have additional menu items (options pages) that use the capability edit_themes to access.
    If you find this is happening to you, just search the theme’s functions.php file and change the edit_themes cap to edit_themes_options. That should fix it.
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  • Downtime

    This morning around 9 AM CST there was a database error that ended up causing API slowness for 3-4 minutes, which could have manifested itself on your end as timeouts or spam getting through.
    Although the downtime was short it did alert us to a weakness in our system we’ll address so this won’t happen again.
    Our last major downtime was in September 2007, one thousand and twenty eight days ago. These things usually happen in threes but hopefully we can head off the next two.

  • BuddyPress Author Link

    I’ve updated my BuddyPress Blog Author Link plugin for WordPress 3.0. I also added support for a single WordPress install. You can download it here.

    June 28, 2010 — Another Featured Posts update (12)
    July 21, 2010 — Theme Stats Updated (0)
    June 27, 2010 — Network Privacy (9)
    June 21, 2010 — Everything you wanted to know about creating a network of multiple sites in 3.0 (45)
    July 11, 2010 — WP125 Ads Plugin (6)

     
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  • BuddyPress 1.2.5

    Ready immediately is BuddyPress 1.2.5, which includes a number of important bug fixes to the 1.2 branch of code, and is another highly recommended upgrade. As always, be sure to back-up your installations before upgrading, and deactivate any dependent plugins that you might have to ensure there are no conflicts or errors during the process.
    This version addresses a few WordPress 3.0 compatibility issues introduced in 1.2.4, and fixes a total of 49 reported issues.Check out the BuddyPress release history for details on the important fixes in this release.
    We are Family
    This time around we had a lot of community participation, which rocks because we’re starting to find lots of little obscure bugs that would have been overlooked otherwise. Props go out to abackstrom, boonebgorges, cnorris23, dwenaus, erich73, francescolaffi, hempsworth, jeffsayre, paulgibbs, paulhastings0, nuprn1, r-a-y, rvenable, wpmuguru, and everyone else that contributed. (If I missed you, leave a comment…

  • Another Featured Posts update

    Someone reported that my Featured Posts plugin wasn’t working. I tracked it down to the download zip containing the old admin page vs the updated one. I updated the repository. Original plugin post
    Download it from the repo: Featured Posts

    June 29, 2010 — BuddyPress Author Link (0)
    July 21, 2010 — Theme Stats Updated (0)
    June 27, 2010 — Network Privacy (9)
    June 21, 2010 — Everything you wanted to know about creating a network of multiple sites in 3.0 (45)
    July 11, 2010 — WP125 Ads Plugin (6)

     
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  • Network Privacy

    In one of the chapters in the WordPress All In One Desk Reference, Andrea includes a list of recommended plugins for use in a WordPress Network. One of those is no longer available for download. Because it was such a handy plugin, I updated the plugin for WordPress 3.0 so that it works with both single and network installs. It can be installed in either the mu-plugins or plugins folder. Here are the features:
    In a single site WordPress install adds the following privacy options:

    I would like my site to be visible only to Site subscribers.
    I would like my site to be visible only to Site administrators.

    In a WordPress network activated on an individual site adds the following privacy options:

    I would like my site to be visible only to Registered network users.
    I would like my site to be visible only to Site subscribers.
    I would…

  • How to add a new Super Admin

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    When you created a network of multiple sites in WordPress 3.0, you (the main blog admin) because a Super Admin with all kinds of fun powers. In some situations, you may desire to have additional Super Admins who can do things like install plugins & themes, perform upgrades, and manage global users and sites.
    If you were using WPMU, not only did Site Admin change to Super Admin, the location of adding another one changed as well, so heads up.
    Under the Super Admin -> Users menu, find the user you wish to promote. Hover over their username and a small “edit” link will appear beneath it. Click it. This will lead you to the user’s profile page.
    Scroll down to the “Name” section.

    I’ve obfuscated the username in this case, but here you can see the checkbox selected to make this user a Super Admin on my site. Hit the…

  • What is the mu-plugins folder?

    the plugins menu tabs

    Users of WordPressMU have long been aware of a folder within wp-content called mu-plugins. Obvious conclusions were drawn because of the name and where it was, but this actually stands for “must-use” plugins. Why? Because any code (plugin) placed in the folder is run automagically, as if it were part of WordPress itself. (Yeah, that label was news to me too.)
    Support for this folder has actually been in single WordPress since 2.7.
    In WPMU, you never saw any reference to this folder from the backend at all. Just drop the code in, and the plugin was already running.
    In 3.0, support for this is naturally still there, but the folder isn’t created for you. If you do encounter a plugin (like domain mapping) that needs to run in this folder, simply create it via ftp or through your webhost’s control panel.
    Also in the backend, if you are using…

  • Profile Pages <3 hCard

    hCard on Profile Pages

    Did you know that your profile pages are fully marked up using hCard? hCard is a microformat for programmatically embedding information about people, companies, organizations, and places in HTML and other markup languages. The screenshot below describes some of the main markup involved on a profile page

    Email address marked up with class=email (only available via JS/client-side parsing due to spam-protection measures)
    IM accounts marked up using class=url (some values only available via JS/client-side parsing due to spam-protection measures)
    Phone numbers marked up with class=tel (using type/value subproperties)
    Verified accounts marked up with class=url and rel=me
    Name marked up with class=fn
    Personal Links are marked up with class=url
    Image (main Gravatar) is marked up using class=photo

    hCard on Profile Pages
    There’s more profile-data goodness coming soon, so check back here for the latest.

  • Picture Finder

    Picture Finder

    Thanks to an email from the creator, we’ve been made aware of this really neat Gravatar-powered application for Mac users. Picture Finder is a free (but please donate!) application for Mac OSX 10.6 users that allows you to control the images that appear in Address Book on your system (which will also sync to your iPhone if you have one). It looks up all the different possible images for each contact based on any email addresses you have stored against them.

    Picture Finder main window
    It won’t keep images updated, but it does give you a quick and easy way to select an image for your contacts from one of the generated options, or their selected image if they have a Gravatar account. I enabled the option to “Replace pictures without double checking with me” and then I was able to just go through and double-click the image I wanted…

  • WordPress Version 2.5 for iOS

    We’re very happy to announce that WordPress for iOS, Version 2.5 is now available in the App Store. As you might have guessed, we’ve been working hard for the past two months to respond to your feedback and address several issues that were most problematic for our users. This update resolves many of the outstanding issues and quirks that you have mentioned on the forums, Twitter, and elsewhere.
    And while this release focuses mainly on bugs and performance enhancements, it also includes some updates to help iPhone users take advantage of two very nice additions from Apple: iOS 4 and iPhone 4. If you’ve updated to the just-released iOS 4, you’ll notice that 2.5 includes support for fast app switching, which is perfect for blogging on the go. Whenever you happen to unbox your shiny new iPhone 4 and install WordPress 2.5, you’ll be happy to see that it’s optimized…


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