Yearly Archives: 2009

BuddyPress in 2009 & nitpicks to improve in 2010

Posted on December 18, 2009 by Paul Gibbs

2009 has been a very important year for BuddyPress, from its 1.0 release in April, reaching a critical mass of contributing users, helpers and developers on the forums, third-party plugin and theme development, professional use and acceptance of BuddyPress and … Continue reading →

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30 Things About My Invisible Illness

Posted on September 19, 2009 by Paul Gibbs

Apparently there’s a bit of a trend amongst medical bloggers as part of Invisible Illness Week to make a list of 30 things to do with their “illness”. So, with some of the answers copied from Kerri’s list (because they … Continue reading →

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Six Little Habits: The Bad Ones.

Posted on September 8, 2009 by Paul Gibbs

Over at sixuntilme, Kerri’s listed six of her diabetes “bad habits.” I thought I’d share mine; I can’t do six, but here’s four: Not changing finger-stabber needle I’m not quite leaving these until they are rusty, but not far from … Continue reading →

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SVN is now public

Posted on September 3, 2009 by Paul Gibbs

I made my SVN repository public which I use for my BuddyPress plugins (Welcome Pack and Achievements). It is at http://svn.dangerous-minds.com/djpaul/. For example, to get the latest trunk (development) version of Achievements  — which requires BuddyPress trunk/1.1 — use http://svn.dangerous-minds.com/djpaul/achievements/trunk/.

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Improving custom component installation

Posted on July 25, 2009 by Paul Gibbs

When implementing a custom component in BuddyPress, you will often have additions for the member theme. Member themes live in their own folder, /wp-content/bp-themes/. To render a member theme template, your component will call dpa_load_template() which takes an argument of … Continue reading →

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How appropriate. You fight like a cow.

Posted on June 7, 2009 by Paul Gibbs

Hello everyone, welcome to metabiscuits.com.  My name is Paul and this is my first blog which will cover topics around areas such as web design and development, WordPress, PHP and HTML5, as well as projects I am working on. I’m … Continue reading →

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