Free BuddyPress themes
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...
CSS Editor plugins
On some installs, you may want to have the ability to make quick css-only changes to your theme that are applied just to the blog you are on. Or maybe you’d like to give your users this ability, like you can get at wordpress.com. There are a few plugins available to help you do this. These plugins...
Week #3 Build a better blog site – User themes and plugins
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...
BuddyPress Themes & skinning
(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...