Want to make sure that your users get logged out after a period of inactivity on your site? Install the new Inactivity Auto Sign Out Plugin. It works with both WordPress and BuddyPress and is composed of a single PHP file. You can easily edit it to change the inactivity time period to suit the [...]
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A new plugin is on the scene that will be of great interest to any WordPress Multisite owner: Google XML Sitemaps with Multisite Support. It is a modified version of Google XML Sitemaps, written by the same developer. Basically, this plugin creates a sitemap for each of your sites and links it in robots.txt. Why [...]
Oftentimes users will ask in the forums about how to show BuddyPress sitewide activity in the sidebar of the site. This is handy for showing activity as it’s happening without the user having to return to the activity tab. Brajesh Singh created a BuddyPress Sitewide Activity Widget for this purpose and has recently updated it [...]
Today I’ll be featuring PayPal plugins that have been recently updated for WordPress. These plugins will allow you to easily take donations, implement a simple shopping cart, sell downloadable content, or work with foreign currencies. There are times when you don’t need a fully robust shopping cart and are only interested in selling a few [...]
Anton Koekemoer is a professional blogger, developer, web technology consultant and a marketing strategist with an emphasis on Web 2.0 technologies. We recently noticed My Chatbox, a newly-created micro-blogging community that Anton built on the WordPress and BuddyPress platforms, and asked for the opportunity to interview him about the service. Please tell us a little [...]
As a BuddyPress admin, you always have the ability to delete users and content. However, if you have a very active community, it can be overwhelming to attempt to police your site for inappropriate content or behavior. Hiring moderators may not be a cost-effective option for your site. This is where BuddyPress Moderation steps in [...]
Boone Gorges put out a new plugin today called Simple Import Users. It allows you to import users into your WordPress installation by adding a list of email addresses. Accounts are created for each with usernames based on the email address. If you have BuddyPress installed, the welcome email to your users will include a [...]
Save yourself loads of time and publish more content while you sleep. Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? There are actually some smart ways to extend WordPress which will help you get more accomplished on your website without eating up all your time. Get your community to create content for you and make [...]
Today Stas Sușcov announced the first stable version of his BuddyPress ScholarPress Courseware plugin and the completion of his Google Summer of Code 2010 project. The plugin now has its own homepage where you can check out a video and documentation. Development on the project continues, so get in touch if you’d like to join [...]
As part of his Google Summer of Code project, Kunal Bhalla has produced two exciting new plugins for BuddyPress with John James Jacoby as his mentor. BuddyPress Custom Posts provides an API to create custom components in BuddyPress around custom post types in WordPress. He also created the new EventPress plugin which relies on on BuddyPress [...]
