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stillbreathing.co.uk

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Code Monkey in Chief

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Web, Developing, Music, Beer (not necessarily in that order)
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Peoples Republic of Yorkshire

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I've been messing around with PHP for about 8 years, and have done pretty much nothing but Wordpress sites for the last 4 years. I love it, so I jumped at the chance to donate code to the Buddypress project. What else? Oh yeah, I play music (am I the only web developer in the world with a degree in jazz Studies? Thought so.) I'm married and have too many kids to count. Things I'm involved with online: - MyJournal: social networking, blogging and online showrooms for business - Performer: making JavaScript features even easier to use; add AJAX and more to your pages without writing a single line of JavaScript code - BeatsBase: blogging and free mix hosting (1gb per user!) for DJs - My blog: thoughts from InternetLand - projectGenie: free, open source, web-based project management software I've also started to write Wordpress plugins, mainly for Wordpress MU. Here's the list (which I'll try to keep up to date): - Secure invitations: allow users to invite friends, and optionally limit signups to only people with a valid invitation - Sitewide newsletters: allows site administrators to send an email newsletter to all users - Personal welcome: allows site administrators to send a personalised welcome message to newly registered users (or search for anyone). Welcome messages are based on a template that you create yourself. No limit to the number of templates you can create!
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  • Avatar Image On October 22, 2009 Chris Taylor said:

    Quick reminder I have a handful of useful plugins for Wordpress MU (and therefore BuddyPress) available here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/profile/mrwiblog

    - Sitewide Newsletters; send newsletter to all users of your site
    - Wordpress MU Demo Data Creator: created demo users, blogs, posts, pages, categories, BP groups, wire messages and friendships – makes developing a site 1,000,000% easier
    - WibStats: free stats for every blog, with Google Maps
    - Secure Invites for Wordpress MU: only allow invited people to sign up
    - Simple User Admin: a simpler admin tool for managing users and their blogs
    - Personal Welcome: send a personalised welcome message to new users

  • Avatar Image On October 2, 2009 Chris Taylor said:

    If you build BuddyPress sites then this demo data plugin will make your life better: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/demo-data-creator/

    Also check out my other plugins, including the best (I think so, anyway) stats package for Wordpress MU and BuddyPress: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/profile/mrwiblog

  • Avatar Image On August 5, 2009 Chris Taylor said:

    A few more plugins are also in the official plugin repository:

    Personal welcomes: manage sending personal welcome messages to new members.

    Sitewide newsletters: send a newsletter to every member of your Wordpress MU site.

    Secure invites: allow members to send invitations to friends, and optionally restrict signup to only those people who have been invited.

    This plugin will work with BuddyPress out of the box, but you need to change one setting (details in the FAQ). It also only works through the WordPress admin interface, although I intend to do a bit of work so that people can send invitations from their BuddyPress profile page.

  • Avatar Image On June 10, 2009 Chris Taylor said:

    Cheers Andy. The next step is to get the plugin to create Buddypress groups, wire messages and friend relationships. I will be pestering you about that soon, no doubt :0)

  • Avatar Image On June 9, 2009 Andy Peatling said:

    Demo data creator looks handy.