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Theme compatibility was introduced in BuddyPress 1.7 and allows site operators to use BP with any available WordPress theme. I have been way behind at updating BP Group Hierarchy to support theme compatibility, and...
The Wordpress theme P2 is great for collaboration and team discussion. Sometimes that discussion can be entirely public, and at other times it makes sense to put the entire site behind a login screen. But what if you want to combine a private discussion stream with public pages? Or mix public posts with private ones? This post will show you how to mix and match private and public posts on your P2 blog and will set up a framework for controlling post behavior through tags.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 plunge and change to the much larger — but much better structured — XML formatted files. Here’s how I did it!
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