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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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 [...]
A customized WordPress login is a nice touch to any site, especially if you’re making it for someone other than yourself. There should be no need to install a plugin to do this for you. In order to keep your site lean, you’ll want to avoid adding loads of plugins that do little things like [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
During the past few months many changes have come to the Theme Review process and scope for submissions to the WordPress Theme Directory. These guidelines are set in order to ensure newly submitted themes support current WordPress features and functionality. So whether you’re submitting a theme or looking to use one from this directory, you’ll [...]
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 [...]
Couldn’t make it to WordCamp Savannah? No problem! You can still learn from some of the presentations by checking out slides that speakers have made available on slideshare.net. More slides will probably become available. Follow @wordcampsav on Twitter to get all the latest. Current slides available from WordCamp Savannah include: Customizing WordPress Themes/ Child Themes [...]
Many users have been looking for a way for the site admin to send a private message to all members of a BuddyPress site. A few weeks ago we posted an article called How to Send a Site-wide Notice or a Site-wide Private Message in BuddyPress, highlighting the differences between notices and messages. The BuddyPress [...]
