Archive for May, 2009
What Do You Want?
Checking over my traffic stats for the past few months, I have noticed 95% of you come here looking for BuddyPress. BuddyPress and WordPress MU have been dominating my search engine referrals for a while now so I just want to ask you all, what exactly are you looking for when you come here? Do [...]
An Interview with…Me!
Last week I was asked to answer a few questions for SocialMediaPortal.com in regards to my work on Explore With Me. The Social Media Portal (SMP) is a resource that maps global social media, social networks and user generated content (UGC). A few times a week they profile various people who deal with social media, and [...]
News in 30 Seconds
Just a quick post! BuddyPress – Help shape the future of BuddyPress and vote on what you would like to see in future versions of the social networking plugin for WordPress MU. It only takes a second and gives you the chance to tell Andy and the BuddyPress gang what features you would like in [...]
BuddyPress Theme Contest: Final Week
Just a reminder that this Saturday is the final day that you can submit your BuddyPress Themes to the contest over at Free BuddyPress Themes. After Saturday the pubic will vote for the best themes with the winners being announced on June 15. The winners will receive 12 months FREE WPMU DEV Premium membership (valued [...]
Travelling with Technology
In a few months I am heading on a month long European trip with my girlfriend. While she is worried about how much she can fit in her backpack, I am worrying about how I am going travel with all the bits of technology that I plan on bringing with me. As we will blogging [...]
My To Do List
Do you ever have so many tasks in your head that you never write down and end up forgetting all the important ones? That always happens to me. Most of my best ideas fill my head when I am not sitting in front of my laptop, and normally in a place where I don’t have [...]
WordPress 2.8 Beta 1
Just when I thought testing and upgrades were going to slow down for a while, the new beta version of WordPress, 2.8, has been released for download. For those of you who like to keep up to date, then you can download and play around with the new version. I probably wouldn’t run it ona [...]
Giving Something Back
When I first started blogging and running my own websites, I relied a lot on the communities built around the various services I was using for help. Take WordPress for example, I asked about 5000 questions on the forums, I asked questions on PHP forums, on IT related forums. I pretty much taught myself everything [...]
BuddyPress Theme Contest
Looking at my search engines stats, you are probably here becuase you searched for “BuddyPress Themes” or something similar, so I am taking this opportunity to remind you about the BuddyPress Theme Contest that is currently running. Thanks to WPMU DEV Premium, we are offering you the chance win 12 months premium membership valued at [...]
Freelancer
I have decided to start to advertise my services to attract some web work. I have been doing more and more WordPress/BuddyPress work in recent weeks and it is something that I would like to do more of. I have been getting a lot of work from word of mouth through the BuddyPress website, and [...]
