Clean up your home page and save space with this simple technique. There are quite a few tutorials available for sliding login panels, but I wanted to present this one because it’s a fairly minimalist, bare-bones example that you can customize further. If you’re looking for a quick way to update your site’s login interface, [...]
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This is an interactive, cosmetic enhancement to your blog post template that will promote author recognition and interaction on your WordPress blog or WPMU blog network. It’s easy to add to your theme and requires very few modifications. The default styling offered in this tutorial will create an author box similar to the one [...]
I love hacks that benefit WPMU so I’m always on the hunt to find ones that will be helpful to our readers. If you’ve ever experienced the frustration of getting a lightbox effect for images to be site-wide on your installation, here is your answer. This is a slightly hacked version of the Slimbox plugin [...]
Tagged: buddypress, buddypress gallery, flickr, gallery, jquery, lightbox, sitewide widgets, slimbox, wpmu, wpmu gallery
Many eagerly-anticipated changes are coming to BuddyPress in the near future. Version 1.2 is slated for a December release. If you haven’t yet checked out the new default theme, you can see a preview here: http://testbp.org/. The current default BuddyPress theme will still be an option and included as the “classic” theme. Core [...]
It’s cuter and easier than it sounds! :) This is a quick tutorial for how to spice up your Members area with a little bit of jQuery magic. We will be displaying some featured members in the sidebar of our member directory and then grabbing some random user data to display in a tooltip [...]
Logging in to a website is an important part of the user experience, especially with community-driven sites. Sometimes the design of the login area can get lost in the shuffle when focusing on the meat and potatoes of building a fully interactive community. However, the login form is often the first place you will interact [...]
