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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 [...]
Need Help with BuddyPress?
If you need a hand with installing BuddyPress and WPMU, contact me! My rates are very reasonable and fair, and I have done it plenty of times!
BuddyPress Theme Contest Relaunched
Last week I decided to hold off on the BuddyPress Theme Contest until BuddyPress v1.0 was released just in case there were any last minute changes which might mean some themes would not work with BP. Well today BP 1.0 was officially released so the Free BuddyPress Themes contest will resume. Here is how the [...]
BuddyPress v1.0 Has Arrived!
The first official version of BuddyPress was released earlier today! After a year of development, Andy Peatling and the BuddyPress team have officially released the very first stable version of the WordPress MU plugin that turns your blog into a social community. This is the first of many versions to coming – with status updates [...]
Intergrating WPMU, BP & bbPress
Last week I made another attempt at trying to make BuddyPress work with bbPress (WordPress forums) and after a late night I finally got it working. Due to the fast pace of the development of BuddyPress, as well as having to deal with a beta version of WordPress MU 2.7.1 and an alpha version of [...]
BuddyPress Theme Contest on Hold
The BuddyPress Free Contest being held at Free BuddyPress Themes has been put on hold until the release of BuddyPress version 1. I got a lot of concerns from people who were waiting for the v1 release just in case there were any changes that would render their theme useless. This is a fair call [...]
Upgrades – BP & WPMU
I spent the good part of Saturday upgrading Explore With Me to the latest version of WordPress MU and then BuddyPress RC2. To my surprise, everything worked in the end and there were no major issues considering the fact that I had to remove BuddyPress and re-install it. As of BuddyPress RC2, it is only [...]
