Daniel Felice

Need Help with BuddyPress?

// May 2nd, 2009 // 2 Comments » // 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

// April 30th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Buddypress

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 contest will be run:

• There are 2 categories in which you can submit a theme for; Home theme and Member theme
• Submissions will be open from April 30 – May 30, 2009
• All submitted themes will be uploaded to FreeBPThemes.com on June 1, 2009 for public voting
• Voting will commence June 1 – June 14, 2009
• The winners will be announced June 15, 2009
• 12 months FREE WPMU DEV Premium membership (valued at US$250) will be awarded to the theme with the most votes in each category.

How to Enter:

• Design an original Home or Member BuddyPress theme
• Submit your theme to FreeBPThemes.com using our online form by May 30, 2009

BuddyPress v1.0 Has Arrived!

// April 30th, 2009 // No Comments » // Buddypress

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 and a photo gallery coming later on in the year. No doubt plugin and theme developers will start coming out of the woodwork to make this fantastic plugin even better.

The community has played a massive part in this project, but a massive thanks has to go out to Andy Peatling who turned this project into the most eagerly awaiting WordPress plugin that has ever been offered within the WordPress family.

Check out more info here (even I get a mention!)

Explore With Me is built on BuddyPress.

Intergrating WPMU, BP & bbPress

// April 28th, 2009 // No Comments » // Buddypress, Wordpress

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 bbPress, most of the online tutorials were out of date which didn’t help the task of making all three applications work together.

I managed to get this working a few weeks earlier without any issues, but so much had changed within a sort period of time. Thanks to a few friends on Twitter I finally managed to make it work as it should.

Since then, Chris from “The Easy Button” has put together a fantastic online tutorial on intergrating WPMU, BP and bbPress. I ran through it in a matter of minutes, rather than hours and everything is very well documented and explained – and best of all it works!

If anyone is looking to setup forums with BuddyPress then this is THE guide for you!

BuddyPress Theme Contest on Hold

// April 27th, 2009 // No Comments » // Buddypress

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 and I think everyone will benefit from having the most up to date themes available to them once the contest has been run and won.

With BP v1 out this week, I will resume the contest on the weekend and leave a month or so until submissions are due.

Upgrades – BP & WPMU

// April 27th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Buddypress, Wordpress

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 compatible with WPMU 2.7.1. This allows users to install BuddyPress (and any other plugin) via WPMU 2.7.1 which will make any future versions a lot easier to manage. All you should have to do now is click “Upgrade” in the plugin section of the dashboard, and everything will download to your server and it install itself automatically.

At the end of this month the eagerly awaiting BuddyPress version 1 will be out so that will mean another upgrade next weekend. Hopefully that is all for a while!

1 Month Left to Enter!

// April 8th, 2009 // No Comments » // Buddypress

Just a friendly reminder about the BuddyPress Theme Contest being held at Free BuddyPress Themes! Submissions close on May 7, so you only have just under a month to get your designs in.

The winner will receive some great prizes, including 12 months free membership to WPMU DEV Premium!

Here is how the contest will be run:

• There are 2 categories in which you can submit a theme for; Home theme and Member theme
• Submissions will be open from March 7 – May 7, 2009
• All submitted themes will be uploaded to FreeBPThemes.com on May 10, 2009 for public voting
• Voting will commence May 10 – May 24, 2009
• The winners will be announced May 25, 2009
• 12 months FREE WPMU DEV Premium membership (valued at US$250) will be awarded to the theme with the most votes in each category.
  

How to Enter:

• Design an original Home or Member BuddyPress theme
• Submit your theme to FreeBPThemes.com using our online form by May 7, 2009

Good luck!

Wednesday Ramblings

// March 18th, 2009 // No Comments » // Buddypress, Contests, General, Projects

• I have extended the BuddyPress Theme Contest by a month. Submissions now must be in by May 7 instead of April 7. This gives everyone extra time to develop a nice looking theme! Checkout the first ever Free BuddyPress Themes Contest!
• My PageRank for danielfelice.com is back down to 0 for some reason. It was up to 3 last week but I have noticed in the last few days it has dropped to 0. I am not sure why but I will be investigating!
• I have added the BuddyPress Facebook Connect plugin to ExploreWithMe. This will allow users of Facebook to sign into the site which will then automatically create them an account based on their Facebook profile details.
• Traffic on all my sites this month are through the roof! Hopefully a sign of things to come!

Domain Name Change

// March 10th, 2009 // No Comments » // Buddypress, Contests

I have had to change the Free BuddyPress Themes in order to comply with the WordPress policy that advises people not to register domain names with the word “WordPress” in it. I am assuming that because BuddyPress is part of the same company that develop WordPress that the policy is going to be the same.

I have registered freebpthemes.com and redirected it to freebuddypressthemes.com and the domain as been masked. As of now I will not be promoting Free BuddyPress Themes with the domain name “freebuddypressthemes.com”. From now on it will be known as “freebpthemes.com”, however the name of the site will still be referred to as Free BuddyPress Themes.

Check out the freebpthemes.com BuddyPress Theme Contest!

First Ever BuddyPress Theme Contest

// March 5th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Buddypress, Contests

FreeBuddyPressThemes.com is proud to announce the first ever BuddyPress theme contest! In order to encourage theme designers to start developing BuddyPress themes, we thought we would give you the chance to design either a home or member theme and win a great prize.

Thanks to WPMU DEV Premium, we are offering you the chance win 12 months premium membership valued at US$250. All you have to do is submit your original theme and let our visitors decide which theme deserves this fantastic prize offered by the guys at WPMU DEV Premium.

Here is how the contest will be run:

• There are 2 categories in which you can submit a theme for; Home theme and Member theme
• Submissions will be open from March 7 – April 7, 2009
• All submitted themes will be uploaded to FreeBuddyPressThemes.com on April 11, 2009 for public voting
• Voting will commence April 11 – April 25, 2009
• The winners will be announced April 26, 2009
• 12 months FREE WPMU DEV Premium membership (valued at US$250) will be awarded to the theme with the most votes in each category.

How to Enter:

• Design an original Home or Member BuddyPress theme
• Submit your theme to FreeBuddyPressThemes.com using our online form by April 7, 2009

It is as simple as that!

Terms & Conditions

The contest is open to anyone to enter. Themes must be original. All themes will be verified by FreeBuddyPressThemes.com. All themes must be submitted via our online submission form. We reserve the right to disallow any theme for any reason. We reserve the right to end this contest before the scheduled end date without notice. FreeBuddyPressThemes.com, sponsors and associates cannot enter the contest. All submissions will remain on FreeBuddyPressThemes.com. All voting decisions are final.