An update to my post on running the koha-common OPAC on Plack. With Koha 3.10 both the OPAC and Intranet can take advantage of the speed and efficiency of the Plack server. Follow these simple steps to get your catalog running better than ever, or follow the link to github for a script to...
Read more →Most of my WordPress plugins are now mirrored on GitHub! This includes Networks for WordPress, which I have traditionally not linked back to this site.
Read more →I’ve been working on a deployment tool for WordPress development environments; one that can quickly provision and maintain the dizzying array of sites needed to test plugins against different versions of WordPress (with and w/o Multisite), BuddyPress, bbPress, etc. Some cocktail napkin math suggested at least 20 combinations were needed to cover all the...
Read more →If you’ve set up a Koha instance and been less than impressed with the responsiveness of the OPAC, this post is for you. Thanks to the hard work of the Koha Debian package team, it’s easier than ever to get a functional Koha install up and running. But once you’ve set up your new...
Read more →Once you’ve created a hierarchy of BuddyPress groups, you can help your users navigate and give your site the professional touch by including group breadcrumbs where appropriate. Here’s how! Step One: Change the link at the top of every group page to a trail of links to parent groups This is the easy part!...
Read more →BuddyPress does a great job integrating new users who register through your WordPress site into the community — optionally synchronizing profile information between BP and WP, and creating an activity feed item for new user signups. But what about users who login against an external authentication provider, and whose accounts are created and managed...
Read more →In this post, I’m going to show you how to create a Member Groups page/list/widget, with a little background on how Group Hierarchy extends the BuddyPress Groups loop. BuddyPress Groups loop overview If you aren’t familiar with bp_has_groups() from looking at the BuddyPress theme files, you should take a look at this overview from...
Read more →Here’s a quick intro to admin pointers for plugins to WordPress 3.3+, based on some work I recently put into making the help system in Networks more intuitive: Step One — Add the admin pointer style and script to your page This is a fairly standard chain of admin_menu action functions, which should look...
Read more →Introduction A frequent feature request for BuddyPress Group Hierarchy has been to automatically join members of a subgroup to its parent groups. While pretty straightforward to implement, there are two main reasons this feature won’t make it into the plugin: This behavior isn’t appropriate for many or even most setups Everyone who has requested...
Read more →With version 3.3 (currently at beta 4), WordPress has introduced the WP_Screen API for adding rich help screens to your plugin’s admin page(s). This is still a very new API so, even though some options functions exist, you won’t be making crazy customizations or replacing meta boxes just yet. Update: version 3.3 is current...
Read more →At JerseyConnect, we have been using the Bulk WHOIS Data from ARIN for a few years now, mostly as a diagnostic tool for libraries concerned about their bandwidth usage, but also for capacity planning and judging peering options. After years of using the flat text format dumps, this week I decided to take the...
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Do you want to create a “home page” for each of your groups, like the one on plugin groups on buddypress.org? Updated (1/07/12): Updated instructions and the sample child theme to fix the activity type issue reported by Towfiq. You can download the updated theme here: Updated (11/29/11): Added a sample child theme implementing...
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