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Wpmu.org look at the Achievements plugin

Posted on January 11, 2010 by Paul Gibbs

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

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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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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