Popup Domination Plugin Breaks WordPress 3.3

I’m not the first to be frustrated by the Popup Domination Plugin busting the WordPress admin after upgrading to 3.3. The reason for the break is pretty simple. The plugin uses a WordPress function that itself relies on a function that has yet to be bootstrapped at the point at which the plugin is loaded. [...]

WordPress Performance Tips

I’m becoming more and more obsessed with WordPress performance issues. Anyone running a site that is the slightest bit popular I amm sure has the same obsession. How do I get this site to load lightening quick! It is an uphill battle when using out-of-the box software and an especially steep hill using WordPress (why [...]

WordPress Hack: Turning Off BuddyPress Notifications By Default

By default BuddyPress has all sorts of email notifications turned on. This is great unless you have a big site with lots of activity and site-wide discussions. Then new users start getting pinged repeatedly on discussions they don’t want to follow or don’t even know they are apart of! So you may want BuddyPress to turn the [...]

PyroCMS, Consider Me Impressed

Just a quick plug. I’m building my first project with PyroCMS. I was already a fan of Codeigniter, the core behind PyroCMS, but so far I’m impressed with just how easy it is to set up and extend CI with PryoCMS if you’re already familiar with CI and MVC. It lacks the community that WP [...]

BuddyPress and WordPress 3.2 Upgrade Issues

Just in case anyone else had this issue. I upgraded several WordPress/BuddyPress installations to version 3.2 and found that my Dashboard menus no longer would expand and collapse as usual. The problem I discovered was some sort of conflict in the jQuery Easing plugin that ships with the BuddyPress default theme and the version of [...]

Manage BuddyPress Inactive Users

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So I quickly threw together this plugin today for a project I’m working on in which I need the ability to resend individual “welcome” emails via the standard WordPress admin. It very simply adds a screen in the user admin that queries inactive users and then adds a button to each row to send the [...]

The Simplest WordPress User Access Log Ever

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Those of use who develop using pods often find we use it for everything. So here’s a quick tip on using PodsCMS to create a custom user access log. Step 1: Set up the Pod I’m assuming you’ve already installed/activate both the PodsCMS and Pods UI plugins. If not, please do so before starting. Create [...]

The Conflicted Developer

As a developer I’m always struggling to balance the urge to learn new stuff and the need to be the best at the stuff I already know. I’m not sure you can be both, right? You’re either the guy (or gal) who knows everything about WordPress or Drupal or Ruby or whatever. Or you’re the [...]

WordPress Hack #3

Here’s a function that really should be in WordPress core by now. And maybe it is and I just can’t find it. But to get the source url for a post thumbnail you have to hack. Here it is: /** ** ** Parameters: ** Size (optional): The width/height of the source image. Accepts either a [...]

HTML5 rocks, now I just have to start using it

I had no idea HTML5 could do stuff like this. I guess I need to get on the ball man.