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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

WordPress Admin Makeover Coming in 3.2

WordPress Admin Preview

I somehow had missed that WordPress 3.2 was going to feature a makeover of the WordPress admin theme. The new theme looks sharp. Here’s a preview. Let’s hope this doesn’t create issues with plugins.

Genesis Framework, Not Too Shabby

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So, I’ve posted elsewhere that I’m not a huge fan of theme frameworks. The short version: I’m not sure we need anymore hooks and filters than WordPress Core already provides and my time is better spent learning those hooks than learning some trendy theme hooks that merely obscur or repackage those core WP hooks. However, [...]

Add tag-like functionality to your pod inputs

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This pseudo-tutorial guides you through setting up a nifty helper for your WordPress pods. The helper emulates the native WordPress tag entry but applies it to whatever content type you specify.

WordPress Patching

So I’m very excited that I submitted my first patch to the WordPress core this morning. Here’s hoping it’s accepted !!!!

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