How To Customise Your BuddyPress URL

How To Customise Your BuddyPress URL

Posted on 24. Feb, 2010 by Jerome.

After the arrival of BuddyPress version 1.2, I have been immersing myself in it as much as possible. I have started working on a few BuddyPress projects and for the next few weeks I will share some of my discoveries and learnings by posting some tutorials and tips. By customising your URL there are benefits [...]

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Best WordPress Plugins To Turn Your Blog Multilingual

Best WordPress Plugins To Turn Your Blog Multilingual

Posted on 16. Feb, 2010 by Jerome.

Managing and writing several languages on a multilingual WordPress blog can be challenging. I looked around to try to find the most useful plugins surrounding languages and thanks go again to the power of the WordPress Community because there are, of course, plugins for that To Manage multilingual posts in one post WPML Multilingual CMS: [...]

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New Free Theme 1.2 BuddyPress Compatible

New Free Theme 1.2 BuddyPress Compatible

Posted on 06. Feb, 2010 by Jerome.

Thanks  go to Diesel Laws from FreelancerUnplugged.com Melbourne, Australia for sharing with the WordPress community this new FREE BuddyPress child theme named Unplugged. Dark colours, very sleek,  lightweight and works on the latest Buddypress Default theme 1.2 that should come out in few days. Release Page

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New Default WordPress Theme Coming Soon

New Default WordPress Theme Coming Soon

Posted on 02. Feb, 2010 by Jerome.

It has been a long time coming!  WordPress has decided to replace their outdated Kubrick theme with a new default install theme in version 3.0. The 2010 theme is now under development based on Kirby, created by Ian Stewart and you can have a sneak peek here. It shows a massive improvement: a nice modern [...]

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Run WordPress Locally In Just Few Clicks

Run WordPress Locally In Just Few Clicks

Posted on 25. Jan, 2010 by Jerome.

It’s always a good idea to have a copy of WordPress running on your local PC for anyone who wants to create a new WordPress Theme, test some plugins or try the latest version of WordPress. One of the quickest ways to install WordPress locally was to use the popular XAMPP on Windows machine: but [...]

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Get Notify Via Email On Any Updates

Get Notify Via Email On Any Updates

Posted on 18. Jan, 2010 by Jerome.

For anyone who doesn’t login that often to their admin panel but wants to keep getting informed of any WordPress, theme or plugins updates available, can now receive email alerts with the “Update Notifier” plugin. This plugin will do exactly what it says by checking daily if any new version is out and then sending [...]

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How To Expand Your WordPress Post Box

How To Expand Your WordPress Post Box

Posted on 14. Jan, 2010 by Jerome.

The other day I was checking the Writting Settings options and discovered after years of using WordPress that you can extremely easily expend your text editor post box. I find it extremely useful especially for large posts,  as it means there is  much less need for back and forth scrolling. Expand Your Post Box In [...]

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How To Insert Videos With One URL In WordPress 2.9

How To Insert Videos With One URL In WordPress 2.9

Posted on 07. Jan, 2010 by Jerome.

In WordPress 2.9 there is no more need to embed the full source code of your videos into your post thanks to the support of oEmbed. Now you just simply need to drop the video URL in your WordPress blog post.  It’s that simple! As an example we are going to show you how to [...]

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