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If you are a friend of the furries, a fanimal of animals and a do-gooder to boot, then you’ll probably want to help homeless critters in your community find good homes. You may even have taken stray animals into your own home until you could find their owners or get them adoptions with loving families.
The new WP ADA plugin makes it easy to create a WordPress site that will bring more people and pets together.
Paul Gibbs, one of the BuddyPress core developers, has released a new plugin called BP Labs that offers some experimental BuddyPress features. The current experiments running on BP Labs are @mentions autosuggest and Quick Admin.
@mentions autosuggest helps BuddyPress users to be able to easily find the short name of a user. BP Labs has integrated this new feature into comments, the “What’s New” activity status box, Private Messaging (body) and bbPress forums.
Instagram fans will love the new Instagram Gallery Widget for WordPress. It gives you the ability to display your Instagr.am pictures in a simple and elegant gallery, as pictured here.
There are a few other Instagram plugins out there already, but the Instagram Gallery Widget has far more features than most of the others. The only other comparable plugin would be InstaPress.
Check out the first version of the Instagram Gallery Widget:
Easy-to-install procedure. Just enter one of your Instagr.am pictures URL and you’re done
User info panel with pictures count, followers count and following count.
Nice FancyBox effect when clicking on thumbnails
We’ve been following the progress of WP Symposium, a BuddyPress-alternative for turning WordPress into a social network. Since BuddyPress isn’t right for every site, it’s good to know that there are other WordPress plugin options out there for adding social networking features. Check out our articles on WP Symposium:
Introducing WP Symposium: An Exciting BuddyPress Alternative
BuddyPress Alternative WP Symposium is Fast Approaching a Release Candidate
WordPress Web Design For Dummies is now available from Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and many other places that books are sold. Many in the community have been long awaiting this exciting new book by WordPress expert and prolific author Lisa Sabin-Wilson.
WordPress Web Design for Dummies covers all the building blocks you need to get started creating WordPress websites of any kind. You’ll learn how to:
Create custom, feature-rich, dynamic Web sites using WordPress
Customize your design using CSS, HTML, and PHP
Develop company sites, online magazines, and e-commerce Web sites
Are you tired of sorting through hundreds of WordPress themes for just one that you might be able to use? We’ve scoured the internet for the best free themes available so far in 2011, so you don’t have to spend so much time searching. Grab a cup of coffee and start bookmarking your favorites!
WordPress Diary Theme
Demo | Download
News Theme
Demo | Download
Copyright
Demo | Download
Imbalance 2
Demo | Download
gRID! Theme
Demo | Download
Melville
Demo | Download
Spectre
Demo | Download
Lysa Theme
Demo | Download
AutoFocus+
Demo | Download
Abtely
Demo | Download
Grading Theme
Demo | Download
Twenty Eleven
Demo | Download
Yoko
Demo | Download
Video
Demo | Download
Beauty & Clean
Demo | Download
Splendio
Demo | Download
Spectacular
One of the main challenges of hosting your own BuddyPress social network is making it easy for members to communicate with one another. BuddyPress does not include mass messaging as part of the default download, but you can now get it with the new Mass Messaging in BuddyPress plugin.
This plugin gives you the ability to offer mass messaging for:
Members
Members of Groups
Members of Events (EventPress)
After installing the plugin, you’ll get a tab for mass messaging in the messaging section as well as a dashboard menu:
The market for BuddyPress themes is increasing, but there are still very few theme providers out there. We’d like to introduce our readers to DevPress, a new place to find a theme for your BuddyPress site. Devpress is a collaboration between Patrick Daly, Tung Do, Ptah Dunbar, and Justin Tadlock.
The DevPress team has created Visual, a unique photoblog theme with support for BuddyPress.
Here’s a quick screenshot of the group forums page:
Got a brand new HTML5 theme for your WordPress and looking for an HTML5 contact theme to add to it? You’ve come to the right place.
Of course, you could always build your own, but maybe you’re not so handy with the code. No problem! There are a couple of new plugins available which advertise themselves as being made for working with HTML5.
HTML5 Contact Form Plugin
The new HTML5 Contact Form plugin in the WordPress repository includes a basic form with clean CSS. It features:
Form validation and detailed UI feedback on error
Cloning a WordPress site for use in another location can be sometimes be a fairly involved process, requiring the use of an FTP client, phpMyAdmin, and multiple file edits. I’m excited about the Duplicator plugin, because it reduces this process to three easy steps:
1. Create a package
2. Download
3. Install in the new location
Primary uses for the Duplicator plugin:
Migrate a site from one location to another location
Pull a production site down onto your local machine
Push a local development to a production server
