Next Saturday, I'll be the guest speaker at the DFW WordPress Meetup. It's going to be a wide-ranging Q&A session, but I know I'm going to talk about some of the hidden gems, importing, and how I moved half a dozen single installations into a multisite setup at work. I'm sure … [Read more...] about DFW WordPress Meetup next weekend
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Stopping spam accounts on BuddyPress
In chatting with a few people at WordCamp Phoenix about our various BuddyPress sites, the issue of spam user accounts came up several times. I'd just run into this problem myself on the VP Alumni site, and after cleaning out about 400 bogus users (all with usernames like … [Read more...] about Stopping spam accounts on BuddyPress
WordCamp Phoenix
This weekend I'm off to Arizona for WordCamp Phoenix, where I'll be talking about Tricky Migrations. This will be similar to my talk for WordCamp Austin back in December, but it'll be more detailed and technical (and yet shorter!). Never mind; I changed it up so much it's … [Read more...] about WordCamp Phoenix
Twenty Links, a Delicious-inspired Twenty Ten child theme
Since I got all my Delicious bookmarks imported, I needed a theme that more or less mimicked the Delicious functionality. For my installation, I've added scribu's Query Multiple Taxonomies plugin, which provides a great Tag Drilldown widget to go with the rudimentary tag filter I … [Read more...] about Twenty Links, a Delicious-inspired Twenty Ten child theme
Import Delicious bookmarks as WordPress links or posts
So, a while back, I was working on a Delicious importer for WordPress. It's an update of Guillermo Moreno's plugin, which imports bookmarks as posts. I added an option to bring them in as links, which made more sense to me, but there's a big problem: since the WordPress link … [Read more...] about Import Delicious bookmarks as WordPress links or posts
Content Audit 1.2: automatically mark things as outdated and send email notifications
The Content Audit plugin has been updated to version 1.2. It now has options to automatically mark things outdated after a configurable time period — 3 months, a year, whatever. You can then email the assigned content owner or the original author a list of all their outdated … [Read more...] about Content Audit 1.2: automatically mark things as outdated and send email notifications
New plugin: Gallery2 to WordPress importer
This plugin allows you to import albums, images (with captions), and comments from a Gallery2 installation into your WordPress site. Albums will be saved as pages containing the [gallery] shortcode, and images will be saved as attachments. The album hierarchy will be preserved in … [Read more...] about New plugin: Gallery2 to WordPress importer
WordPress in the Workplace panel Thursday night in Dallas
Tomorrow night, I'll be in Dallas for the #dfwwptech (WordPress Developer and Technical User Group in Dallas/Fort Worth) meeting, a panel on WordPress in the Workplace. For this event, I'm wearing a slightly different hat and will be speaking not so much as the author of a book … [Read more...] about WordPress in the Workplace panel Thursday night in Dallas
Testers wanted: Content Audit, now with email notifications
I've been working on adding email notifications to Content Audit. It now has options to automatically mark things outdated after a configurable time period -- 3 months, a year, whatever. You can then email the assigned content owner or the original author a list of all their … [Read more...] about Testers wanted: Content Audit, now with email notifications
Beginning WordPress 3 available for Nook
Beginning WordPress 3 is now available in Nook format. Enjoy! … [Read more...] about Beginning WordPress 3 available for Nook
