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Welcome Pack 2.1 released

Paul Gibbs — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 20:06:42 +0000

Welcome Pack 2.1 has just been released, which adds Start Page; when the new user logs into your site for the very first time, use Start Page to redirect them anywhere you’d like.

For those new to Welcome Pack, check out this intro video, updated for 2.1:

Achievements 2.0 change picture sneak-peak

Paul Gibbs — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:07:18 +0000

Current version of the Achievements 'Change Picture' screen.

Welcome Pack and BuddyPress 1.2.4

Paul Gibbs — Thu, 20 May 2010 06:19:19 +0000

For those people using Welcome Pack, please be aware there is a new release of BuddyPress, version 1.2.4, out at the end of this week. The email feature of Welcome Pack might stop working until I get an update out, … Continue reading →

Achievements 2.0 create screen sneak-peak

Paul Gibbs — Mon, 10 May 2010 21:41:43 +0000

Current version of the Create Achievements screen.

Achievements 2.0 Feature Listing

Paul Gibbs — Thu, 06 May 2010 11:36:56 +0000

I have had a few questions recently about what exactly will be in the next release of my Achievements plugin for BuddyPress, so thought I’d post the list here.

Allow site admins to create custom Achievements via front-end – this includes specifying name/description/points and avatar (via WordPress media gallery). And, of course, what site event to hook it into (i.e. to fire on new user registration, etc).
Achievements can also be granted to a specific user, to mimic a “badge” – i.e. “this month’s top contributor” or “competition winner.”
Groups Directory, like regular BuddyPress Members/Groups Directory. Lists each of the Achievements, and by going into each, you can see who has “unlocked” that Achievement.
A new area on a user’s profile page to show which Achievements they have unlocked.

Are there any features you’d like to see in sequential releases?

Welcome Pack 2.0.2

Paul Gibbs — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:46:35 +0000

Due out this evening (23rd April), Welcome Pack 2.0.2 will contain a pair of fixes which will correct the filenames of the bundled localisation files, and fix a bug where the text in the email selection menu wasn’t showing the translated text.

Slava kindly contributed the above bug fixes and has sent in a Russian translation, which is cool; thanks very much.

Ray suggested that the username and group name lists should be sorted alphabetically rather than by user ID, which I agree with, so that will also be in the new version.

Welcome Pack 2.0.1 coming today [updated]

Paul Gibbs — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 08:22:21 +0000

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 →

Welcome Pack 2.0 released

Paul Gibbs — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:56:37 +0000

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 this intro video:

I haven’t had huge amounts of feedback yet, which probably means I didn’t break anything — always a good sign. There has been a report on the BuddyPress forums from someone running into difficulty with Welcome Pack on a site with over three thousand users; I’m waiting for some feedback from the person concerned and will probably do a minor patch to resolve it.

Wpmu.org look at the Achievements plugin

Paul Gibbs — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:04:10 +0000

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.

SVN is now public

Paul Gibbs — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:42:37 +0000

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/.