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Ning nonsense is an opportunity for WordPress and BuddyPress developers

01-Feb-12

Another chapter in the Ning saga (see my previous posts on the subject): In the past few days, Ning has been sending out emails indicating that they’ll be wiping out non-premium networks in the course of the next couple weeks (see, for example, this blog post). It’s no coincidence, of course, that I’ve gotten a [...]

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New WordPress plugin: Simple Import Users

26-Aug-10

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 [...]

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More Import from Ning goodness – ( Ning to BuddyPress / WordPress )

17-Apr-10

As promised in my last post, I’ve reworked the Import from Ning WordPress plugin so that it is BuddyPress-aware. That means that, if you run the plugin on a blog where BuddyPress is activated, additional steps will be added to the import process, allowing you to automatically import whichever profile fields and data you’d like [...]

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Import from Ning: Import Ning users to Wordpress and BuddyPress

17-Apr-10

Import From Ning imports the contents of your Ning Network Archive into BuddyPress. See the initial announcement here. Download the most recent version Instructions Install in your plugins folder and activate. I recommend using the plugin on a fresh WP/BP installation; if running on an installation with existing content, please make a database backup first. [...]

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New BuddyPress plugin: BP Import Blog Activity

02-Mar-10

I wrote a BuddyPress plugin today that is very ugly. It imports activity into BuddyPress from blog posts and comments that occurred before you had BuddyPress installed. It’s ugly because it’s sloppily coded and extremely inefficient and likely to hit PHP memory limits every time you run it. But it does the job, so I [...]

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