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BuddyPress 1.5 “Lombardi” released
Could not have said it better myself. Reblogged from Boone @ Teleogistic: It’s finally here! After many, many months of bug squashing, refactoring, and general bloodsweatntears, BuddyPress 1.5 has been...
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Confessions of an Open Source Workaholic
Hi, my name is John, and I’m an Open Source Software workaholic. I touched on it a bit in my WPCandy interview, and I thought I’d finish the story here with a few added thoughts. I live in a great...
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Custom Plugin Header Image Label
Back in December of 2011, Matt and friends added the ability for WordPress plugins to have really pretty header images. For BuddyPress, I went through a few design iterations before settling on the...
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SLASH Architecture – My approach to building WordPress plugins
I’ve fallen into a routine when building WordPress plugins; a few general rules are: Avoid creating new PHP globals. Avoid executing PHP code in the global scope. Generous use of Actions and Filters....
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Contributing to WordPress, BuddyPress, & bbPress
Siobhan McKeown recently authored an amazing post at Smashing Magazine about contributing to WordPress. I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to share some of my own thoughts, mostly...
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BuddyPress Notifications
Today, with a little help from my friends, the first new component to BuddyPress in several years saw it’s first commit into trunk this morning. First pass UI for BuddyPress Notifications BuddyPress’s...
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January thoughts, BuddyPress 2.2
With each new software release that I’m fortunate enough to contribute to, I usually take some time (or lots of time) to reflect on a few different things that I think are critical to the project and...
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“I’m too busy”
TL;DR – If you ping me directly for help with something, you will probably get it. BuddyPress & bbPress recently switched from IRC to Slack for real time synchronous communication. Philosophically,...
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LoopConf
I’m going to say, with emphasis, what I think everyone is probably thinking… LoopConf is what you wish most WordCamps were Here’s my gist: Live streaming quality was excellent, because a professional...
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I’m difficult to work with
When I was in third grade, my elementary school guidance counselor setup a meeting with my parents and I to talk about my behavior. I’ll spare you the details, but the gist is that “John has a high...
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