February 4, 2012

Free BuddyPress themes

If you have explored BuddyPress at all, you will have noticed not only the lack of free themes available, but also the trouble in just finding them. We aim to change that with the Free BuddyPress Themes site. Not only will it feature whatever free BuddyPress themes we can find anywhere online, we will be [...]

Facebook Dashboard Widget Update

A quick note that Chris has released a new version of his Facebook Dashboard Widget (Download link) that is compatible with WPMU.

Domain mapping updates

Donncha has updated the domain mapping plugin for WPMU. Get it here. The biggest changes include subfolder blog support, and remote login – which means you can be logged in to the main domain and have it carry over to the mapped domain. Sweet! More news about our own domain mapping plugin coming in the [...]

Buddymatic Theme Framework

I ported Buddymatic from the Thematic Theme Framework. In a standard WordPress or WordPress MU blog, Buddymatic is functionally the same as Thematic. In a BuddyPress enabled WordPress MU install, the BuddyPress components in the framework are activated to provide BuddyPress theme functionality. Buddymatic and child themes can be used on WordPress, WordPress MU, BuddyPress [...]

CSS Editor plugins

On some installs, you may want to have the ability to make quick css-only changes to your theme that are applied just to the blog you are on. Or maybe you’d like to give your users this ability, like you can get at wordpress.com. There are a few plugins available to help you do this. [...]

Our slides from WordCamp New York

This past weekend we were in New York city for WordCamp NYC. What a blast! Everyone we met was so awesome, and I gave out a ton of hugs. There was such a great spirit during the whole weekend, full of learning & sharing. Here’s the slides from our presentations. Our sessions were also filmed, [...]

Mixing mapped domains and sites

As you may already know, this blog is a domain mapped blog on a WPMU site. So is ronandandrea.com, our consulting site. It’s very handy to login with the same username, and only have one codebase to deal with. We do have other domains, client sites, & sites under dev on the install, but I’ll [...]