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New version of Buddypress
BuddyPress, for those who don’t know yet, is a plugin for WordPress that turns it into a fully featured social networking platform. And by social network I mean something of the scale of Facebook.
So this all good and interesting but the major draw back of BuddyPress was that it only worked with WordPress Mu. Well [...]
Upcoming features in WP 3.0
I know, WordPress 2.9 has only been out for a few weeks but we are already excited about the next release. Version 3.0 is something special though.
First it is a big number and with big number comes responsibility, hum, big features…
The major change is the merge of the MU code base and the normal WordPress. [...]
The power of filters in WordPress
Filters in WordPress are used to add or override the core functions return. Usually filters come at the end on a script just before it returns the result. A filter send a variable to a range of registered functions that will modify it and return the new variable.
The good thing is that you can have [...]
Brainstorming over blind includes from plugins
In a previous article about mistakes people do when writing plugin I said one of them was to input css/javascript even on pages where they are not needed.
This started a quick discussion on the comments about the possibility of intercepting plugins wp_head call to remove unnecessary inclusion of stuff in the header.
The first solution should [...]
Add a dashboard widget in WordPress admin panel
With wordpress 2.7 came the dashboard widgets that you can easily customize, add or remove. Now lets say you have a great plugin that gets some kind of stats. Wouldn’t it be nice to display them on the dashboard so you can view them in one swift eye move rather than going in you plugin [...]
Create a posts by category widget in WordPress 2.8
With WordPress 2.8, Automatic introduced a new widget management panel but also a new way of making your own widgets. Before is was a bunch of messy functions, now it’s a nice widget API easier than ever.
Justin Tadlock wrote a very comprehensive article about making widget in 2.8 and I will use this to make [...]
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