My palz Mikhail and Luke over at Blogs@Baruch needed an easier way to add users to sites in the WordPress network. They’d been using DDImportUsers, which worked, but was finicky: DDIU required you to specify too much information, its formatting was tough for instructors to understand, and, most importantly, it didn’t deal well with existing [...]
Back when Ning announced that it’d be cutting off previously free accounts, I took a weekend and developed Import From Ning, a plugin that helped users pull their Ning user and profile data into a WordPress or BuddyPress installation. It was my own little BuddyPress-fanboyish way of helping all those Ningsters. Several weeks ago, Ning [...]
On the CUNY Academic Commons we have a MediaWiki installation running parallel to our WordPress/BuddyPress installation. In the past I had hacked together an inelegant and constantly breaking solution for importing wiki edit notifications into the BP activity stream. I’ve just written a small plugin called BP External Activity which solves the problem by using [...]
BP External Activity allows admins to import data from an arbitrary RSS feed into their BuddyPress sitewide activity stream. For example, you might use the plugin to add activity items for edits on a MediaWiki installation. The plugin imports RSS feeds every hour. You may find that you need to decrease your Simplepie cache time [...]
Cross-posted on the CUNY Academic Commons dev blog A few people have asked recently for a list of the plugins installed on the CUNY Academic Commons. In the spirit of Joe’s post, here I thought I’d make it public. I’m going to limit myself to the BuddyPress plugins here, for the sake of simplicity. (I’d [...]
I’m quite happy to announce the release of a more-or-less stable (we hope!) version of BuddyPress Group Email Subscription, a BuddyPress plugin that allows for fine-grained, user-controllable email subscription to group content in BuddyPress. This plugin is different from some of my others in that it was truly a group endeavor. The base of the [...]
Authors: Deryk Wenaus, Boone Gorges, David Cartwright BuddyPress Group Email Subscription allows group members to receive email notifications for all types of group activity, especially forum posts. Each user can choose how they want to subscribe to the group. EMAIL SUBSCRIPTION LEVELS: There are 5 levels of email subscription options: No Email – Read this [...]
A local development environment is a collection of software and files on your local computer that replicates a server environment. There’s a number of reasons why doing web development in a local environment and then pushing it to a remove server is a good idea: Convenience: You don’t need an internet connection Speed: Because you’re [...]
Well well, what do we have here but another MIND BOGGLING BuddyPress plugin? This one is called BP System Report, and it allows admins to take periodic snapshots of some interesting data in their BP installation. Check out the plugin page for more information and to download BP System Report.
BP System Report records regular summaries of statistics related to your BuddyPress installation. You can then compare any two snapshots using the built-in comparison tool, which calculates percentage differences. The information currently gathered by the plugin: Members: total number, number active during report interval, percent active, total friendship connections, average friendships per member Groups: total [...]