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A Bit Quiet…
I have been a bit quiet lately – not much blogging has been happening! This is because I have been flat out with a few freelance projects, and getting organised for my 40 day tour of Europe before I head back home to Australia after spending the last 3 years in Ireland. It is a [...]
WordPress 2.8 is Out
WordPress 2.8 was released yesterday. I have just upgraded a few of my blogs and some of the improvements are great. I have listed a few of the changes below. New Theme Installer routines Add CodePress syntax highlighting to Theme and Plugin editors Add Documentation(function) lookup to Theme and Plugin editors Use “Custom Header” for [...]
Photo Album Plugin for BuddyPress
Rather than wait for BuddyPress version 2, Manoj Kumar has developed a Photo Album plugin for BuddyPress that is currently receiving high praise on the BuddyPress forums. The offical BuddyPress photo album isn’t scheduled to be ready until late 2009, however for those of you who don’t want to wait this should fill the gap [...]
Vote for the Best BuddyPress Theme
As of today, all submissions to the BuddyPress Theme Contest have been uploaded to Free BuddyPress Themes and voting as begun. Voting will be open for the next 2 weeks which after the winners will be annouced. Thanks for everyone who entered the theme contest – there weren’t as many entries as we had have [...]
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 [...]
