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Whenever you make an SVN commit on a Google Code project, you can instruct Google to send a notice to someplace else. This plugin enables WordPress to receive those notices and output them as an SVN Activity custom post type. You’ll be able to view them in a list under the SVN Activity custom post menu in your dashboard:

How to Link Your Google Code Project’s SVN Activity to Your WordPress Site

If you’re setting up your Google Code account for the first time, make sure to select SVN for your repository type if you plan to use this plugin.

1. After installing Google Code Commit Tracking on your WordPress site, go to your Google Code account and copy the Post Commit Authentication Key from the Administer > Source.
2. Paste into the Settings > Google Code options page.
3. Copy the Post-Commit URL on the Config page into the Google Code Post-Commit URL field on Administer > Source.
4. Then you can create a custom page template for the page where you want to display the updates and query the SVN post types using something like this:

   <?php query_posts( 'post_type=svn'); ?>

Now you have a page that will update automatically every time you commit, without you having to do a thing. This is especially useful if you are collaborating on a project with other developers or have a number of people interested in your project who don’t use Google Code. Importing your SVN activity as custom post types lets your site’s visitors to interact with your project by commenting on the updates and following via subscription. Keep everyone up to date with your project directly through your WordPress site!

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Check out a demo at the Vanityvid website or have a look at their video gallery page.

Is Vanityvid compatible with BuddyPress avatars?

Yes it is!No modifications are necessary. Here’s what it looks like with the default BuddyPress theme on the member’s page:

How can I create a Vanityvid avatar?

Check out how easy it is to create a video avatar and have it hooked up to your account:

If you plan on adding the plugin to your site, the easiest way to add a video avatar is to install and activate the plugin. Then go to Settings >> Vanityvid and upload your video or record it through your webcam. Confirm your email address and you’re done! Any of your users who are also using the service will display video avatars as well. Check out the simple administration screen:

The Vanityvid plugin is a fun addition to any WordPress or BuddyPress site that is purely a social network with everything geared toward increasing user interaction. Video avatars are another way that users can share a bit more about themselves and add a personal greeting. The plugin enables you to offer video avatars without having to host them yourself or handle all the privacy issues, since it’s managed by a 3rd party. Download the Vanityvid WordPress plugin and bring your profile pictures to life!

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Yiid it! is a new series of widgets that is enabling interaction and viral spreading of news, products, reviews and any other kind of information to a whole range of social networks SIMULTANOUSLY, including Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz and many more to come.

Yiid it! is hoping to leverage the power of millions of WordPress users by releasing a free plugin for their service, the first of several more to come for other popular content management systems. Once installed, you can customize how and where the button appears on your site:

The plugin currently supports Facebook and Twitter but more services are coming soon:

• google buzz
• myspace
• yahoo
• linkedin

You can choose to add the button to every page or to single pages/posts:

One important item to note is that when sharing, the user will be giving Yiid it! access to post to their accounts by authenticating with one or more service. If your users consider this to be a drawback, they may be less inclined to share your content.

In addition to more social networks, the service also plans to add detailed statistics and user communication for direct marketing purposes. Yiid it! is preparing their own API, which will combine oAuth 2 authorization with webhooks to post likes and dislikes to sites. If you want to use their service to make your own plugin or custom solution, check out their developer info.

Yiid it! will be an interesting service to follow as they add more networks. What do you think about the ease of sharing across all of your social networks with one click of a button? Is it overkill or just the next step in convenience?

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If you’re new to WordPress Multisite, you may be surprised by the relentless barrage of splogs and spammers that you’re receiving. There are a few free plugins out there that attempt to combat this problem but none of them approach the caliber of Anti-Splog. Managing a network that is suddenly overrun by splogs without any defense can be one of the most frustrating problems for a Multisite owner. You want to be focusing on growing your network of sites and improving your features, instead of wasting hours deleting splogs.

Anti-Splog is the most iron-clad solution to the onslaught of splogs you’re receiving.
Signup prevention includes:

• Limiting the number of signups per IP per 24 hours
• Changing the signup page location every 24 hours
• Human tests

If any splogs do happen to get through, you have a dead simple interface that lets you block and eliminate all of them in one fell swoop. One of the most amazing features of Anti-Splog is post monitoring. If a splog has gotten through and tries to post content, the API service analyzes it, identifies the splog and shuts it down instantly.

If you’re not effectively eliminating splogs, then you’re not able to accurately monitor your site’s growth and potential. Your site can quickly get out of control with inflated blog numbers, representing splogs with access for generating questionable or illegal content. Can you sustain this kind of risk, knowing how quickly you can get shut down and have all of your data confiscated by authorities?

Are you operating an active Multisite network? Anti-Splog is currently your best form of protection from the possibility of your site getting shut down by sploggers. Every WordPress Multisite network needs to have an anti-splog strategy in place. An effective method of splog elimination is one of the most vital aspects of multisite network health and maintenance, and it’s one thing that you cannot compromise. Take a hint from recent news before the damage is already done and put Anti-Splog to work for you.

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WP Show IDs also supports WordPress 3.0+, even Custom Post Types & Custom Taxonomies, as well as Multisite installations.

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This is great news for WordPress users who want to add a solid forum to their sites without a lot of work to integrate it. However, long-time users of bbPress as a standalone forum are uncomfortable with the idea of recycling the bbPress name for a completely new project. There’s been a bit of controversy surrounding the decision to make bbPress 1.2 a plugin for WordPress, but the standalone version will still be available for anyone to work with or fork as they please. The naming is really at the core of the controversy, as some believe keeping the same name may confuse the user base.

What’s new for bbPress as a Plugin?

Pete Mall outlines what they’re working on right now:

“We’ll be working on bbPress as a WordPress plugin leveraging custom post types in WordPress 3.0+. There will be a direct/easy way for you to import your bbPress standalone data into the new WordPress plugin.”

bbPress needs a lot of work to be able to run efficiently with all the new features that WordPress 3.0 has to offer. However, when it’s ready in plugin form, theming your bbPress forum will be much easier. The new plugin will also significantly expand the current bbPress user base.

So what does this mean?

In case it seems a little confusing, this is how it’s going to break down:
bbPress 1.1 (standalone) – Still in active development – Follow at: bbPress Development Blog
bbPress 1.2 (plugin) – Coming soon, probably a few months before it will be stable – Follow at: bbPress Plugin Development Blog

Meanwhile, Justin Tadlock is also building a forum plugin for WordPress based on custom post types. He hopes to release a beta in the next month. In the near future WordPress users will have a number of options when setting up a forum for their sites, and we love options.

Stay up to date with the bbPress plugin development here: http://bbpdevel.wordpress.com/. Contributors are welcome, so if you’re a bbPress fan and you want to help shape the new plugin, get in touch with the team.

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Moderate New Blogs

This plugin flags new blogs in SuperAdmin >> Sites as “Awaiting Moderation” so that you can leave site registration open and retain the ability to moderate new blogs. No registrations slip through without your approval.

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Toggle Meta Boxes

WordPress has quite a few options that many users don’t need and may never use. Simplify the Post, Page, Link, and Comment editing forms by toggling the meta boxes on or off through the plugin’s options. You can also toggle the Quick Edit buttons, Media buttons, Screen Options and Help links.

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Menus

This plugin lets you enable or disable WP3 Multisite backend menus. It adds options to toggle administration menus at Super Admin >> Optons page under “Menu Settings”. You’ll be able to disable the Deltete Blog, Permalinks, Import, Media Upload, Add Users and Themes menus to simplify the dashboard for users.

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Multisite Switcher

This plugin adds a simple dropdown menu in the administration header that allows you (and every site user) to switch between the administration of every site he is a member of (and so work for super-admin, admin, contributors,…).

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Proper Network Activation

This plugin improves network activation of plugins so that when activating or deactivating it triggers the de/activation hook on all sites in the network. It also triggers the activation hook for all active network plugins on that site when creating a new site.

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Multisite User Management

This plugin gives you the ability to assign users a default role for each of your sites. You can assign different roles for each site or no role if you want a site to be kept private.

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More Privacy Options

This plugin adds three more levels of privacy to the Options >> Privacy page: Blog visible to any logged in community member, blog visible only to registered users of blog, and blog visible only to administrators.

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Exclude Plugins

This plugin will allow you to selectively show or hide certain plugins from the normal WordPress user in Multisite, as opposed to showing or hiding all plugins at once.

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Activate Update Services

For some reason WordPress removes the Update Services ability (under Settings – Writing) when you create a Multisite network. Activate this plugin to get it back.

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WP Multi Network

Turn your multi-site installation of WordPress into many multi-site networks, all surrounding one central user base. WP Multi Network allows super admins to create new network collections of sites, allowing for infinitely extensible site, network, and domain arrangements.

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Enable Multisite

This plugin lets you enable Multisite in WordPress 3.0 without the process of digging into the code. After you install it takes just one click to turn it on Multisite functionality for your site.

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Blue Network Plugins

This plugin separates the network plugins from the rest and highlights them in blue at the very top. You’ll be able to see at a glance which plugins are operating sitewide.

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