Simple Pull Quote Wordpress Plugin Updated! Beta Testers Needed!

March 7th, 2010 — Wordpress, Wordpress plugin, plugin

Darrell Schulte and I spent a good deal of time this weekend updating my Simple Pull Quote Wordpress plugin, and we are now looking for beta testers to download and test out version 1.0 beta (Note: This new version is still in development and might not work perfectly yet.).

Version 1.0 beta features:

  • No need for custom fields! (However legacy support for custom fields still exists.)
  • Added “Pullquote” buttons to both the html and visual editors.
  • Updated CSS Code

Please leave feedback and bugs below, as I hope to release version 1.0 into the Wordpress Plugin Repository later this week.

Thanks!

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My Experience with WordPress MU Sitewide Tags Pages

March 4th, 2010 — Blog Post, Wordpress, Wordpress plugin

I have been struggling with how to integrate a site-wide search on a Wordpress MU site for a few days.  I tried One Search, wpSearchMu, and a couple of others, but I could not get any of them to work.  Finally, I installed Donncha’s WordPress MU Sitewide Tags Pages plugin.

The install process is simple (just click the check box at the bottom of your “Site Admin”–>”Options” page and then click the “Update Options” button).  From there, I had to add the following code to my template files in order to pull the search from the “site wide tags” blog:

<?php  switch_to_blog(12); ?>
            	<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/searchform.php'); ?>
<?php restore_current_blog(); ?>

Pretty nifty!

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Three NEW BuddyPress Plugins! (Custom Groups Name, Group Authors Widget, Group Registration)

February 18th, 2010 — Blog Post, BuddyPress, Wordpress plugin, plugin

UPDATE: This page will no longer be updated.  Instead, please visit the Hardly Neutral Wordpress plugins page.

Eric Johnson did all of the coding and deserves all of the credit for these three great plugins!  I commissioned them for a project and am posting them here with Eric’s permission.  As an FYI, these are all open-source, and Eric plans on placing them into the BuddyPress plugin repository in the near future.

  • Custom Groups Name (download)
    Activate this plugin, and you will find that your “groups” turn into “communities”.   This plugin doesn’t do anything more than switch the words.
  • Group Authors Widget (download)
    This widget will display the members of any group with little avatars that link to the members’ respective profile pages.
  • Group Registration (download)
    This plugin gives new members the ability to join groups from the registration screen.  Pretty nifty, eh?!

Please add comments here if you find any bugs or if you have any suggestions.

If you find these plugins useful, please contribute back to the Wordpress community.

Enjoy!

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How to Unzip Folders on the Server Using a Simple PHP Script

February 10th, 2010 — BuddyPress, Wordpress

I have been installing Wordpress MU and BuddyPress a lot recently as I test and test and test it for a client’s website.  The uploading of files via ftp has been the biggest consumer of time during this process.

Yesterday, I discovered a simple PHP script that makes installing WPMU, BuddyPress, Wordpress, or really anything else a quick and painless process.  All you need is a zipped folder!  Here is the script:

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<?php system('unzip wpmu.zip'); ?>

or Download the PHP file here (but make sure to change the file extension from .txt to .php).

Simply:

  1. Upload your zipped file to the server (in my case, “wpmu.zip”).
  2. Edit unzip.php to point to your file (download unzip.php above).
  3. Upload unzip.php to the same folder as your zipped file.
  4. Open a browser and point it to http://mydomain.com/unzip.php (make sure to change “mydomain.com” to your domain).

That’s it!

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How to Create a BuddyPress 1.2 Child Theme

January 25th, 2010 — BuddyPress, theme

I just spent a good 30 minutes figuring this out, so I thought I would post just in case anyone out there is having a similar mental block.  :)

To create a BuddyPress 1.2 child theme, simply create a new folder in your normal “wp-content/themes” folder and then put a style.css file into that folder with the following code at the top:

/*
Theme Name: YOUR THEME NAME HERE
Theme URI: http://buddypress.org/extend/themes/
Description: YOUR THEME NAME HERE based on default 1.2 theme for BuddyPress.
Version: 1.2
Author: BuddyPress.org
Author URI: http://buddypress.org
Template: bp-default
*/

/* Layout styles for home page, internal pages and blog/directory pages */
@import url( ../../plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/css/default.css );

/* Default theme admin bar styles */
@import url( ../../plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/css/adminbar.css );

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