Welcome to the New Look JournalXtra

Quick-glance magazine style homepage.

JournalXtra has a brand new coat. We wanted something clean, simple and clear; a look we knew you would love and that would make visiting JX a pleasure for desktop drivers and mobile riders. We hatched a plan, took out our paintbrushes, rollers and stencils then pulled down the old and built up the new. … Read more

WordPress PHP Shell and File Browser Plugins

PHP Shell 2.4 for WordPress

We’ve all suffered it. At some point in a developer’s career there will be a day when everything goes tits-up, a site comes crashing down and the site owner isn’t around to give FTP access or full server access. Sometimes, all we need is command line access 99 times out of a hundred, I won’t … Read more

Game Guide: The Last One Game Cheats and Tips

Kill zombies deader than dead in The Last One, a game on Facebook by Progrestar. There are few cheats and tips available on the web so I guess this is the first and only proper The Last One game guide and tutorial. Billed as the scariest game, The Last One is an RPG zombie apocalypse … Read more

Had a Play with BuddyPress 1.7…

BuddyPress 1.7

BuddyPress 1.7 is at beta 2 RC1 stage and it looks good. The main changes are behind the scenes and work to enhance speed, performance, security and theme & bbPress integration. The biggest change is that BuddyPress has out-of-the-box theme integration so there’s no requirement to install or buy a BP specific theme. Guess this … Read more

Get Rid of BuddyPress Nested Commenting

BuddyPress 1.7

BuddyPress nests replies to updates the same way WordPress nests comments. This forces comments to get narrower and narrower as more and more replies are replied to. It’s bugging as hell. Why BuddyPress uses nested replies is beyond me. It can be fixed. Remove nested replies and reply-to-reply buttons with CSS: Login to your server. … Read more