Wordpress
Projects Update
As many of you know I have a few projects that I am currently working on. Here is a quick update… Explore With Me: The site has been completed, BuddyPress Beta 1 is up and running, and members are joining at a steady rate. I am still saying that the site is not yet officially [...]
BuddyPress Community Taking Shape
As expected, their have been a lot of people developing components and plugins for the newly released BuddyPress. For those of you who don’t know, BuddyPress is a social community plugin for WordPress MU. I have implemented the plugin at Explore With Me, my latest online project. While BuddyPress is still in beta, it has [...]
Blog From Your Phone!
Ever since a member of the BuddyPress forum made a suggestion for Explore With Me, I have been spent the last few days trying to find a plugin that allows Explore With Me users create a new blog post using a mobile phone. I thought this was a great idea, and not sure why I didn’t [...]
BuddyPress Beta Released
I mentioned a few months ago a WordPress MUplugin called BuddyPress. BuddyPress is a WordPress MU plugin that turns a standard WordPress MU installation in a social community. I have been using very early versions of the plugin at Explore With Me for the past two months or so, and today it was nice to [...]
WordPress 2.7 Now Available
After much hype and anticipation, WordPress 2.7 is now available for download! There have been major changes to the control panel in this release and I am not going to sit here and name every single one of them! I upgraded to the new version this morning and so far it looks and feels great. [...]
Creating a Social Community with WordPress
When the initial idea of Explore With Me was discussed, we wanted to create a travel blog as well as allow other travellers to sign up and create their own travel blog. This is when I discovered WordPress MU. After we figured out we could host other blogs, we then decided we should create an [...]
Must Have WordPress Plugins
There are thousands of WordPress plugins on the Internet and most bloggers will install whatever suits their needs or niche. I have a few WordPress blogs and no matter on the type of blog or the size of it, I always seem to be installing the same plugins on each. There are a handful of [...]
My First “How to” Guide
Off the back of my previous post, and over the next few posts I am going to attempt to educate the newbie’s among us. I have been telling friends, family and work colleagues about blogging and I constantly get asked, “Why blog?”, “How do I start a blog?”, “What should I blog about?” and the [...]
WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin
I was searching around the WordPress website today and came across the “WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin“. I always think it is a bit of pain upgrading to the new versions of WordPress so I thought that I had to give this one ago as I had yet to upgrade to 2.6.1. So I downloaded, uploaded [...]
