This Week’s Hurricane
So far, zero rain from hurricane Irene. Just some light to medium wind gusts. Warm wind and humidity at that. Where’s the rain…we need the rain.
Recent Posts January 28, 2012
I’m using Google Plus +
On my first day of vacation, a couple weeks ago, I received my Google Plus invite. I had no access to a computer on the beach but luckily I did have my droidx2. So unlike any other service I’ve ever used, I started my Google Plus experience from a mobile device. This important detail has [...]
How to Show Post Count for a Custom Post Type
I haven’t worked with custom post type much so when as they’ve slowly encroaching on theme frameworks I work with I realized I needed to adapt and embrace them. One of the first snippets I’ve discovered recently was showing a total Custom Post Type count on a blog. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 [...]
How I added BP Followers Follow Button on Member Blogs
About 5-6 Months ago I decided I wanted to put the Follow Me button (from the BP Followers Plugin) on member blogs on a WP Multisite. Any way after a lot of copy, pasting, and refreshing…here’s what I got to work. Please someone tell me there’s an easier way and that I went the long [...]
The Absence of NM
It’s been a long while since I last logged web. I’ve been busy with the little one running around now. But I did finally make some updates to the site here. I’ve updated the main site and the sub sites running BP, Canvas and various media versions of Canvas to run photos, videos and the [...]
BP Post Directly Friends Activity
I had come up with this before Buddypress had released their 1.2 version that you see used on Buddypress.org…so the newer way might be more recommended for whatever reason. This was just one of the first functionalities that I jumped into. I haven’t looked to see how they’ve done it but this way works for [...]
Favorite Post Sitewide
Here’s the plugin setup for BP Favorite Posts Sitewide. It is basic so there’s a lot of steps to set it up. So if you like it and would like to modify it to make the setup process lighter please feel free as long as you make it available to everyone. The actions of favoriting [...]
Ping: the music social network
Trying out ping. It came out this week. I just really started using my 5 year old ipod this year even though I’ve downloaded over 50,000 songs from iTunes. We’ll see how it goes with Ping. I’ll report back. So far the sign up process had one bug I noticed but all in all simple. [...]
Canvas is a beast
I’m having a tough time with Wootheme’s Canvas and child themes. For one, I’m having trouble with adapting it to Buddypress and multisite. Where before I was strictly Freshnews and plussing out the custom.css and sharing headers out to other themes for sites on the network, and I was loving that. Now. Child themes have [...]
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How to get BuddyPress Comment Count by Blog?
I wanted to be able to show a member’s comment count from a particular blog on a multisite wordpress blog network. I found a couple of ways to do it using switch_to_blog. This is to display the comment count on a user profile page. Install the Buddpress Member Profile Stats plugin. And put the following [...]