It’s generally been our policy to avoid upgrades (just apply patches) until we hit .1 of a WPMU release.
For example, seasoned veterans would remember that 2.5.1 or 2.6.1 (or 2) were serious improvements on their .0 counterparts – and when you’ve got tens of thousands of feisty bloggers on your doorstep, you wanna give them [...]
Archives for March, 2009
by James
by James
We’ve just released three new plugins that we think you’ll like and which, for many of us, might be a useful alternative to BuddyPress.
You see, we love BuddyPress, it’s really cool, but at the same time it basically *takes over* your WPMU site and not all of us want that, do we?
Also, BuddyPress doesn’t do [...]
by James
It’s based on BP (which makes sense), it syncs with the wp.org user database and it’s all new… nice work guys.
Not only that but they have themes and plugins – which is interesting as that would imply that there’s gonna be no crossover with the regular WP.org repositories.
Unless they are gonna cross pollinate… which would [...]
by James
When I was but a bairn, in the halcyon days of working at a Uni I remember there was a huge demand for screencasts and videos of how people could use the online learning management system. So we made tons of them – and those early Camtasia efforts were quote something, I can tell you.
Then [...]
by James
Great post about giving back to WordPress and, indeed, WordPress MU which is maintained by a much smaller core!
No comments allowed though so feel free to share any other ideas you might have here :)
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Tagged: giving back, wordpress mu
by James
We’ve released our first BuddyPress Plugin and it’s freely available at WPMU DEV.
It’s called BuddyPress Terms of Service because… that’s what it allows you to do:
To install just place it in /mu-plugins/ and to set what you’d like to see in the box just Got to Site Admin > TOS… easy :)
More to come soon!
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by James
Yeh, we’ve been on a bit of a BuddyPress ‘ting over the last couple of weeks, normal service will resume shortly, promise, but this is a bit too juicy to pass up:
What is this ‘new site’ I hear you say?
Just a reworking of the existing buddypress.org or a brand spanking new BP related project?
Could mu.wordpress.org [...]
by James
Just a quickie, we’ve started a new category on WPMU DEV for BuddyPress plugins.
So feel free to upload all your BP goodies to there to share with the community!
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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 [...]
by James
Phew, that was a looong couple of days :)
All of our WordPress MU Videos are now 2.7 also!
There are also several more, as we’ve added to the original batch with videos covering using the dashboard, managing comments, configuring users and using the media library.
Why might you fancy a peek at them?
Well, much as wordpress.tv is [...]
