WordPress Phone Support

August 19th, 2010 — Blog Post, Wordpress

We are now offering WordPress phone support!  Have a WordPress question?  We can help!

612-293-8629

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Redirect Users to Notifications Page Upon Login to BuddyPress

August 16th, 2010 — BuddyPress, Thoughts, plugin

Tonight I spent a good deal of time trying to figure out how to redirect BuddyPress users to their respective “Notifications” pages when they click the login button in the sidebar.

My solution was to write a plugin based on BP Redirect to Profile.

I merely edited line 35 of the plugin to change it from this:

return bp_core_get_user_domain($user->ID );

to this:

return bp_core_get_user_domain( $user->ID ) . 'settings/notifications/';

Enjoy!

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BuddyPress for Beginners at MSP WordPress #7 Meeting

July 22nd, 2010 — Blog Post, BuddyPress, Wordpress

Tonight I had the pleasure of leading a discussion at MSP WordPress #7 about the magic that is BuddyPress.  Here is a summary of what we discussed:

Topics addressed at tonight’s MSP WordPress meeting:

Resources:

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Display a category title outside of The Loop in WordPress

July 4th, 2010 — Blog Post, Wordpress

Today I wanted to display a category title outside of The Loop using the category’s id in WordPress.  Many thanks to Eric Johnson for providing the solution:

<?php $categoryTitle = get_the_category_by_id(105); ?>
<?php echo $categoryTitle; ?>

Note: “105″ is the id of the category.

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Forum and Video Options for WordPress

June 23rd, 2010 — Blog Post, BuddyPress, Wordpress, plugin

I did some research today with regards to forum and video options that WordPress offers as well as some other non-WordPress options for these two things.  My research is below.  Please let me know if I made an error or misrepresented anything.

Thanks!

Videos

Option #1: VideoPress:

  • All VideoPress videos are stored on the WordPress.com servers.
  • Pricing is by space used.  There is a base charge of $60/year, which includes 3 GB of storage.  Additional storage can be purchased at the rate of
    5GB for $19.97
    15GB for $49.97
    25GB for $89.97
    50GB for $159.97
    100GB for $289.97
  • VideoPress should work similar to any other streaming video behind a firewall.  If a user is able to stream YouTube videos, then he should be able to stream VideoPress.  Of course, the IT folks might need to make an exception to their site-blocking list for WordPress.com’s servers.

Option #2: WordPress video upload feature

Forums

Option 1: Forum Software such as phpBB, Vanilla, or punBB.
Pros: Open source; Robust options; Traditional forum software
Cons: Requires a separate installation; Users are not integrated with the WordPress user database; Works like traditional forum software; Requires extra time to customize; No threaded comments

Option 2: Simple-Press (http://simple-press.com/)
Pros: WordPress plugin; User database is the same as WordPress; Integrates with WordPress theme
Cons: Requires a bit of customization; No threaded comments

Option 3: WordPress post comments
Pros: Already installed with WordPress; Intuitive interface for replying to posts/comments; Completely integrated with WordPress; Easily manage discussions; Includes threaded comments
Cons: Requires a bit of customization; Requires a bit of design and usability planning

Option 4: BuddyPress Forums (http://testbp.org/forums/)
Pros: Easily set up group forums with access restrictions; Integrates nicely with WordPress; Plugin maintained by WordPress
Cons: No threaded comments

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