Author Archives: Paul Gibbs

Welcome Pack 2.0.1 coming today [updated]

Welcome Pack 2.0.1 will be released today. It will fix a bug with the email dropdown box not working correctly on some upgrade installs, and will optimise memory usage for loading the configuration pages on sites with many thousands of … Continue reading

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Welcome Pack 2.0 released

The other day, I released version 2.0 of my Welcome Pack plugin for BuddyPress. The big new feature is the ability to customise the text of the default emails that BuddyPress sends. For those new to Welcome Pack, check out … Continue reading

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Hijacking WordPress Internationalisation

As part of a new feature I am developing for the next release of my Welcome Pack plugin for BuddyPress, I needed a really smart way of dynamically adding my own translations for strings at page-load time; creating a stand-alone … Continue reading

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How to get a list of BuddyPress’ actions.

As part of research for a new version of my Achievements plugin for BuddyPress, I need a list of all the BuddyPress action names. For non-developers, actions are the hooks that WordPress & BuddyPress launches at specific points during execution, … Continue reading

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Visualisation of mouse activity over two hours

With thanks to the Calm Banana.

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Wpmu.org look at the Achievements plugin

Sarah Gooding at wpmu.org has taken a look at my Achievements plugin for BuddyPress. I think it’s a great writeup and certainly has inspired me to carry on improving it. Take a look.

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BuddyPress in 2009 & nitpicks to improve in 2010

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

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.

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

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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