I’ve just tagged version 1.2 of Unconfirmed, my WordPress plugin that allows for easy management of unactivated registrations on your WP site. Unconfirmed 1.2 has two new, handy features: WordPress non-Network support Previous version of Unconfirmed supported only WP Multisite (Network mode). That made sense, because WP “single” does not have native support for user [...]
A few weeks ago, I wrote about reclaiming short URLs using YOURLS. That post raised some interest among the CUNY Academic Commons team in having a URL shortener just for the Commons, with full integration into BuddyPress. So I emailed Ozh Richard, author of YOURLS, about the possibility of adding BuddyPress support to his official [...]
I’ve just released version 1.1 of BuddyPress Docs, my collaborative editing software for BuddyPress. The big new feature in version 1.1 is the History tab. After upgrading, you’ll notice that what used to be a single Edit button has been reorganized into three tabs: Read, Edit, and History. History allows you to brows the entire [...]
Some months ago, I wrote about using Git and Github with the wordpress.org plugin repository. Since that time, I’ve been refining my plugin development workflow. I now do all of my development with Git, using git-svn tools to do all svn management. Preamble: Git as primary vs secondary Before talking more about my workflow, I [...]
If you’ve ever been responsible for supporting an installation of WordPress Multisite with open registration, you know that the activation process can be a significant source of headaches. Sometimes activation emails get caught by spam filters. Sometimes they are overlooked and deleted by unwitting users. And, to complicate matters, WP’s safeguards prevent folks from re-registering [...]
I just released version 0.9 of Invite Anyone. IA is a a BuddyPress plugin that lets users send email invitations to friends who may be interested in joining the site. IA has always kept track of sent invitations at the user level, but there’s never been a good way for get an overall administrator’s view [...]
Hopefully, readers of this blog will know that I have a keen interest in social software. For some time, I’ve been a leader in the development of BuddyPress, a plugin that lets users take control of their social networking ex- periences. Up to now, I’ve focused on BuddyPress http://buddypress.org, the free plugin for WordPress that [...]
Activity stream replies in BuddyPress are pretty cool, but they have the potential to be confusing. On the CUNY Academic Commons, we have disabled activity replies for activity entries related to blogs and forums, because allowing replies in these cases has the potential to confuse users and fracture conversation. There are a number of ways [...]
The CUNY Academic Commons is looking to hire a part-time (5+ hours per week) WordPress/BuddyPress developer. If you’re a WP dev who’s interested in hooking up with the coolest dev team in town, you can learn more about the position, and how to apply, on the Commons Dev Blog.
Today I am releasing the first public beta of a significant new BuddyPress plugin: BuddyPress Docs. BuddyPress Docs is a collaborative, front-end, rich-text, document editing tool for BuddyPress groups (individual user Docs are an upcoming feature). Read much more about the plugin’s features. This plugin has been developed for the CUNY Academic Commons (though it [...]