Hope you guys all had a wonderful holiday. We took some much needed time off. Onward to the good stuff! Now that WordPress 2.9 is out the door, the dev team (Donncha, plus the regular WordPress team) can start working on 3.0, where the merge of wpmu will be rolled in. In case you missed it, Jane has...

If you have explored BuddyPress at all, you will have noticed not only the lack of free themes available, but also the trouble in just finding them. We aim to change that with the Free BuddyPress Themes site. Not only will it feature whatever free BuddyPress themes we can find anywhere online, we will...

I ported Buddymatic from the Thematic Theme Framework. In a standard WordPress or WordPress MU blog, Buddymatic is functionally the same as Thematic. In a BuddyPress enabled WordPress MU install, the BuddyPress components in the framework are activated to provide BuddyPress theme functionality. Buddymatic...

So hot on the heels of last week, WPMU 2.8.4a is out with a security fix. If you are stuck at 2.8.1 and have trouble with the auto-upgrade, you have to apply the edits Donncha mention in this post. A lot of us old-times are still more comfortable with the manual upgrade, so if the auto-upgrade gives...

I released a new plugin yesterday which you can download here. The author link from the template tag on the blog will link to the author’s buddypress member profile instead of the author’s posts page. This plugin can be installed in either the mu-plugins or plugins folder. If you are running...

So our site is up and running, our main page is getting all set up, but what now? The reason we built the site in the first place: our users. Like a houseplant, we have to give them everything they need so they don’t shrivel up and go away. Remember the notes we made back in week #1? This is where...

A couple weeks ago we posted that D’Arcy Norman has figured out a quick htaccess method to stop those sploggers from doing their automated signups. You can modify those rewrite rules to work with Buddypress: Replace yourbpsignupslug with the slug used for your BP signup (ex. register). And,...

(Editor’s note: this was published in May, 2009. As of November 2009, Free BuddyPress Themes is under new ownership and has a whole new pile of themes. Check it out Free BuddyPress Themes ) You may have heard of a social networking plugin for WordPress MU called BuddyPress. In this post, I’m...

A few weeks ago, Frumph launched SocialPress as an informal project offering lightweight alternative plugins to BuddyPress. Alternatives are always nice. My initial offering for SocialPress is a plugin which blends signup options by allowing only user signups, but logged in users can create blogs. The...

Edit so important it goes up top: Apparently we haven’t been watching trac enough. WPMU 2.7.1-beta1 is out. New plugin releases for the week: Posts and Comment growth “This plug-in is a reporting tools for site administrators in WordPress MU. It generates a histrogram graph of posts and comments...