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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
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
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
There are hundreds of plugins for BuddyPress. The plugins shown here are the essential enhancements to make BP fly like a proper social network should. RS BuddyPress Activity Refresh plugin for live activity stream updates. BuddyPress Block Activity Stream Updates to get rid of those activity updates that don’t really belong in the activity stream … Read more
Embedding documents into websites is super easy with Google docs. No Google account needed. No API key needed. Just follow the link to the tool: https://docs.google.com/gview/ Once there, paste the URL of the file you want to embed into the Document URL field and press Generate. Copy the embed code into your page. This works … Read more
Add an Invite Facebook Friends button to any WordPress website with the Facebook Friends Inviter Plugin. This is a new free plugin from the stable of JournalXtra and VizRED. This WordPress plugin adds customizable text links and customizable graphic buttons that are visible to anyone who visits your WordPress site. Key benefits of the plugin … Read more