When you’re working on a business website, you need quality, and quickly, from the plugins you choose. If you had the know-how to be hacking and troubleshooting the plugins that you need, you would be writing and releasing your own plugins. The WordPress Apps Store was created to save you the hassle. WP Plugins is [...]
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I’ve put together a summary of some useful plugins that you may not have heard about yet. Some of them are new in 2010 and others have been around a little while and have been recently updated. With all the buzz about BuddyPress lately, I’d like to make sure we’re keeping you up to date [...]
Check out the newest plugin on the scene: BuddyPress Maps. It is a BuddyPress core component that will save location markers set by the user and display them on a map. It also includes a options to save/edit a location marker in the user’s profile and display a map with all users’ locations in groups. [...]
WordPress and Google Buzz Perhaps the most exciting news on the internet this week was arrival of Google Buzz, a new way for Google junkies to connect socially by sharing information and interacting with each other’s posts directly within their Gmail accounts. People are clamoring to let the world know what they think the implications [...]
Displaying a user’s friends in the sidebar is something that simply makes sense for a lot of community sites. Although there are widgets available for showing members, recently active members, and who’s online, BuddyPress does not come packaged with a widget for displaying a logged in user’s friends in the sidebar. If users are easily [...]
Exciting BuddyPress news yesterday is that the eagerly awaited Classifieds component has been released. Current requirements for the plugin are BuddyPress 1.2 and WPMU. The component will be available for use with WordPress single user when WP 3.0 is released with custom post type functions. The classifieds are stored as blog posts. Of course I [...]
Minify is a PHP 5 app that “combines multiple CSS or Javascript files, removes unnecessary whitespace and comments, and serves them with gzip encoding and optimal client-side cache headers.” The WP Minify plugin makes it easy to integrate Minify into your WordPress / BuddyPress site and in most cases will work right out of the [...]
In case you’re likely to be doing any theme testing and debugging in the coming days, this plugin will come in handy. Theme Test Drive offers you a way to test out and work on new themes without having to duplicate your installation to test it live. I found this guide over at Inspect Element [...]
In case you missed it, the big news this week is that the BuddyPress 1.2 Beta has been released! It’s fresh out of the oven and is compatible with WordPress 2.9.1 and WordPress MU 2.9.1 or higher. Here’s what you need to know about the beta: BuddyPress 1.2 is Sporting a New Default Theme You’re [...]
This is an update on one of the most exciting new features of the BuddyPress links component. Sharing news and information on the BuddyPress platform has jumped to light speed. Marshall Sorenson updated me yesterday about his continuing work to improve the plugin. We took a peek at the links component last month when 0.2 [...]
