The Fix:

Go to: phpmyadmin > yourdatabase > wp_bp_groups_groupmeta

Find the group you’re attempting to post to and then delete the forum_id value. Go back to your group on the front end. When logged in as admin of the group, go to settings and re-enable your forums. It will save a new forum_id for you and your posts should start working. This is a solution for BuddyPress groups that are starting a fresh new forum, not for groups with forums that have existing posts.

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Food Network Humor

BetterCodes.org

Neoncon

Androinica

mytelegraph

Ancestry24

The Naughty Daughters

Chwisgi.com

Fugget.com/

Blogatize

The Chemistry Book

Space of Love

Runners Buzz

CSS Activity

ShabuShabu

Ramganjmandi

ClanPlaystation.net

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Check out a demo at the Vanityvid website or have a look at their video gallery page.

Is Vanityvid compatible with BuddyPress avatars?

Yes it is!No modifications are necessary. Here’s what it looks like with the default BuddyPress theme on the member’s page:

How can I create a Vanityvid avatar?

Check out how easy it is to create a video avatar and have it hooked up to your account:

If you plan on adding the plugin to your site, the easiest way to add a video avatar is to install and activate the plugin. Then go to Settings >> Vanityvid and upload your video or record it through your webcam. Confirm your email address and you’re done! Any of your users who are also using the service will display video avatars as well. Check out the simple administration screen:

The Vanityvid plugin is a fun addition to any WordPress or BuddyPress site that is purely a social network with everything geared toward increasing user interaction. Video avatars are another way that users can share a bit more about themselves and add a personal greeting. The plugin enables you to offer video avatars without having to host them yourself or handle all the privacy issues, since it’s managed by a 3rd party. Download the Vanityvid WordPress plugin and bring your profile pictures to life!

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// Use shortcode in a PHP file (outside the post editor).
<?php echo do_shortcode('[gallery]'); ?>

Replace with the shortcode you want to use. More information is available in the WordPress codex on the do_shortcode function page.

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Hyper Cache: The Poor Man’s Ticket to a Speedy WordPress

Hyper Cache was specifically written for people who have their blogs on a low resources hosting provider, particularly CPU and mySQL. Here’s how it works:

On each request, the cache engine is called by WordPress. It checks if the html for this request is in cache and is still valid. If so the html page is returned and everything stops. WordPress calls the cache engine BEFORE any other kind of operations, so not plugins are activated, no database connection established, no queries executed. If the page requested is not in cache, the cache engine “capture” the html produced by WordPress and put it on file.

Hyper Cache Features:

• Compatible with the plugin wp-pda which enables a blog to be accessible from mobile devices
• Manages (both) plain and gzip compressed pages
• Autoclean system to reduce the disk usage
• 404 caching
• Redirects caching
• Easy to configure
• Global Translator compatibility
• Last Modified http header compatibility with 304 responses
• Compressed storage to reduce the disk space usage agents, urls and cookies based rejection configurable easy to integrated with other plugins

It even works with hosting based on Microsoft IIS with a little bit of tuning. AdSense, Analytics, and any other service delivered by JavaScript will not be affected by Hyper Cache. Recent Apache Benchmark tests rank Hyper Cache as the best WordPress caching plugin when combined with DB Cache Reloaded. Check out a full WordPress caching plugins review at Tutorial9.net to see the details of how it measures up to other WordPress caching options.

If you’ve got a WordPress blog on shared or cheap hosting, go ahead and give this caching option a try. When installing, make sure that your /wp-content directory is writeable, so that it can create the advanced-cache.php file. If the directory isn’t writeable the plugin will fail to install.

Hyper Cache is a very lightweight caching option for the average WordPress blog, offering speed without a lot of overhead. For more information on the plugin’s features, configuration, and support, please visit the Hyper Cache homepage.

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function remove_footer_admin () {
    echo "Your own text";
}
add_filter('admin_footer_text', 'remove_footer_admin');

Add in text, links, or brand it with your own logo at the bottom.

Source: WPRecipes.com

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An example:

bp_is_active( $component ) - checks if a BP $component is active

The conditional template tags reference also gives several usage examples that will help you on your way when creating and customizing BuddyPress child themes. I’d recommend bookmarking this one for future use.

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Yiid it! is a new series of widgets that is enabling interaction and viral spreading of news, products, reviews and any other kind of information to a whole range of social networks SIMULTANOUSLY, including Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz and many more to come.

Yiid it! is hoping to leverage the power of millions of WordPress users by releasing a free plugin for their service, the first of several more to come for other popular content management systems. Once installed, you can customize how and where the button appears on your site:

The plugin currently supports Facebook and Twitter but more services are coming soon:

• google buzz
• myspace
• yahoo
• linkedin

You can choose to add the button to every page or to single pages/posts:

One important item to note is that when sharing, the user will be giving Yiid it! access to post to their accounts by authenticating with one or more service. If your users consider this to be a drawback, they may be less inclined to share your content.

In addition to more social networks, the service also plans to add detailed statistics and user communication for direct marketing purposes. Yiid it! is preparing their own API, which will combine oAuth 2 authorization with webhooks to post likes and dislikes to sites. If you want to use their service to make your own plugin or custom solution, check out their developer info.

Yiid it! will be an interesting service to follow as they add more networks. What do you think about the ease of sharing across all of your social networks with one click of a button? Is it overkill or just the next step in convenience?

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See if you can stay awake long enough through this truly uninspiring video they have on their front page if you want a quick tour

Yeh, thought not, so, here’s a quick rundown…

First up it’s not, in any way, a competitor to WordPress.com or other blogging services, and that’s not because of the ‘Drupal is more fully featured’ myth but because their plans have been conceived by, presumably, a box full of screaming monkeys:

Highlights are mine… and that’s correct, you can have a massive 4,000 page views p/day for free… or 8,000 for $39.95 p/month. Heh. Oh, and you can also create up to 10,000 pages for that $39.95 p/month fee.

Two things:

1. The vast majority of punters don’t give a crap about page view and number of page limits
2. Because – THEY ASSUME THERE AREN’T ANY – so when they see them, I think they may well run a mile

But lets assume they haven’t, let’s assume that they get through to the next stage.

Check the handy drop down box at the top, you wouldn’t know it but that’s the most important choice you’re gonna make, whether you bother to click it to see what it’s hiding.

And yeh, ok, there are ‘?’s but what does ‘Stay connected’ mean… what am I supposed to do… what’s the difference between that and ‘Stay notified’ and why am I choosing this stuff anyway???

So let’s say you did click on that dropdown and selected blog, then you end up with this design:

Which can be edited by this (actually rather nice) design editor.

But, unfortunately, that’s where the niceness stops – I mean check out this Structure > Blocks element [yeh, I was confused already, but this really did me - click for full size].

And the Modules menu is just as bad.

But… I’m sure it’ll appeal to the Drupal geeks who are already familiar with this kind of stuff.

Unfortunately, it’s unlikely to do much more than confuse or put off anyone else, in it’s current state, IMO.

Here’s what I think they need to improve:

1. It makes perfect sense to build off the Drupal brand as WP.com have done, but check out http://wordpress.com/ – it’s not about ‘start a WordPress site’ it says ‘Start a blog’ – whereas, in h2, Gardens says ‘Launch a product, promote an event, engage a community’… meh… too general, confusing, and doesn’t help. I’d suggest ‘Start your own Drupal CMS’ or just CMS, or ‘powerful Drupal site’
2. On the subject of the front page, 15 minutes.. who the f*ck does your copy… howabout ‘minutes’, that should cover it
3. Rubbish, awful, video – go poach Michael Pick from wordpress.tv or something
4. Noone will ever bother to read or even look at that footer
5. Plans and pricing, just awful, awful… just copy what wordpress.com does, it works for them to the tune of gazillions of $s, they’ve tested it, it’s cool, imitation = flattery etc.
6. The first step after creating an account needs to be much, much more intuitive and explanatory, lose the dropdown
7. Administration is better than standard Drupal, for sure, but you need to pull back on the lingo, simplify and explain

Come on Acquia, you can do better than that!

Other coverage – ReadWriteWeb offers an un-opinionated announcement

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