A quick update about the site

Jotted by brajesh on November 6, 2009

hi there
October proved a very busy month for me and I was unable to get in touch with you wonderful people visiting here.
First of all ,thanks for visiting the site.

here is a quick update about what is going on:-

I have plans to test and release improved version of all my buddypress/wordpress Mu based plugins in near future.I will be releasing a few buddypress themes too.Well at least 2 free budydypress theme,one is just a child theme and another is highly customized theme.Keep yourself tuned for the updates.

And to keep up with the time,I enabled tweetmeme retweet button today,so now onwards you can even tweet the posts if you would like :)

My apologies to everyone who left a comment and I could not answer in timely manner,I am going to be regular and answer all of the queries … I just promised my self today :) So keep yourself tuned for more from this blog.
Happy blogging :)

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Autoactivate Users and Blogs at Buddypress Signup

Jotted by brajesh on October 5, 2009

Update: 19/01/2009

This plugin is not working currently as pointed in comments by pierre and ray.

If you are using this plugin, as ray points in the forum here , You must use some way to prevent spam, It can increase the spam signups as it does not require users to validate the signup.

So be aware of it, I will advise using SI-Captcha plugin or any other plugin which is meant for stopping spams.

The signup process for buddypress can be a difficult thing for users who don’t want to wait for the activation mail or don’t want to click activation mails.
Well,here is a simple solution which works with buddypress 1.1 and I have tested it with the point release buddypress 1.1.1.

The plugin BP Auto activate User and Blog activates user account as soon as they finish the signup details by entering the details.
Well,if you are a proud owner of buddypress based social network and want to save your users from going through the activation hassle,this plugin is for you .

Please Note,I have tested it with wpmu 2.8.4a and buddypress 1.1.1 (so I assume It will not work with buddypress 1.0.3 as the registration process has quiet changed from 1.0.3 to 1.1).

If you want a version of this plugin for bp 1.0.3 ,please let me know,If there is an enough demand,I will put another plugin which will work with buddypress 1.0.3.

Well,here is the link for downloading the plugin.
BP Auto activate User and Blog at Signup (497)

and here is the screen shot of what happens when your user clicks on “Complete Signup”
bp-signup-finished

Please note again.
It works with the new buddypress theme with improved registration.So It will not work with buddypress 1.0.3.

Now happy social networking and do let me know,how it goes with you.Want more stuff,keep yourself tuned.There are many more plugins yet to come.I will like to see your suggestions for buddypress based plugins[obviously you will get credits for your ides :) ].

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Remove /blog slug from the default blog of wpmu subdirectory installation

Jotted by brajesh on September 23, 2009

Do you want to remove the ‘/blog’ slug from post url for the default wpmu blog .
In the sub directory style install of wpmu, ‘/blog’ is added to the permalink structure,category base and tag base for default blog(or main blog).
Removing it is quiet easy. If you don’t wish your posts to have url like http://yoursite.com/blog/somepost-goes-here and want it to look like say http://yoursite.com/somepost-goes-here,I have an easy solution for you.
Download my plugin Remove /blog slug plugin for wpmu , It is has only 10 lines of code.

How to use it.
1. Download the plugin wpmu remove blog slug if you have yet not downloaded it.
2. Install it as any other plugin.You may upload to wp-content/plugins or just use plugin installer to upload and install it.
3. Go to Dashboard->Plugins(Installed plugins)
4. Activate “Remove /blog slug plugin for wpmu”

5. Go to Settings->Permalink
6. Copy your current permalink and then change something in permalink, save it. Now put your old permalink and save again. (See,  you have to save it twice, we are just forcing wordpress to update the permalink structure by changing it, if you don’t change, the permalink is not saved, so It will not work. To get over it, we change it to something else, then save and then revert back to the original structure)

7. Go and check your posts now,they will have no “/blog/” slug anymore.
I have tested it with wordpress Mu 2.8.4a, wp 3.0 multisite but I hope it should work fine with other versions too. I even tested it on a buddypress+wpmu installation and it just works fine.

I will love to hear back your feedback. Please let me know your suggestions/views and anything you want here .
Have a great day!
Brajesh

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Just an Update

Jotted by brajesh on

Hi All,Thanks for your wonderful comments and suggestions about the tweaks/plugins I posted here.
Due to my health,I was not active and could not reply to a few comments ,so This post is just to say thank you to all of you for your patience and understandings.I am getting better now an d Hope fully I will return back to blog and work by this weekend.I have so many wonderful things to share with you all.There are many more tweaks,tips and plugins to share.
Just subscribe to feeds to be the first one to know the updates.

Thanks again for your comments/suggestions/patience and understanding.

Brajesh

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Buddypress 1.1 beta is out ,It’s time to adapt to new theme structure and refracted codes

Jotted by brajesh on September 15, 2009

Yesterday,Andy formally released the buddypress 1.1 beta.I have been checking through the SVN and the new changes in buddypress 1.1 is certainly going to make the site developers life easier.There are many changes,but the major haul is Theme structure and Forum integration.
It looks ,the thriving community of buddypress is going in right direction.
checkout Andy’s post here http://buddypress.org/blog/news/buddypress-1-1-beta/

As a plugin and Theme developer(well I already developed some theme with bp1.1 using svn and It is a way lot cool now :) ,Now it is time to move and adapt to the 1.1.

I will be testing my plugins with this beta and will release updates soon.

If you have already used any of my buddypress plugin with this beta ,please let me know whether it works or not ?

Thanks
Brajesh

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