With a heap of bug fixes… and nothing particularly major (it’s all good!) this will doubtless be a pretty stable and long lasting release!

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Whenever you make an SVN commit on a Google Code project, you can instruct Google to send a notice to someplace else. This plugin enables WordPress to receive those notices and output them as an SVN Activity custom post type. You’ll be able to view them in a list under the SVN Activity custom post menu in your dashboard:

How to Link Your Google Code Project’s SVN Activity to Your WordPress Site

If you’re setting up your Google Code account for the first time, make sure to select SVN for your repository type if you plan to use this plugin.

1. After installing Google Code Commit Tracking on your WordPress site, go to your Google Code account and copy the Post Commit Authentication Key from the Administer > Source.
2. Paste into the Settings > Google Code options page.
3. Copy the Post-Commit URL on the Config page into the Google Code Post-Commit URL field on Administer > Source.
4. Then you can create a custom page template for the page where you want to display the updates and query the SVN post types using something like this:

   <?php query_posts( 'post_type=svn'); ?>

Now you have a page that will update automatically every time you commit, without you having to do a thing. This is especially useful if you are collaborating on a project with other developers or have a number of people interested in your project who don’t use Google Code. Importing your SVN activity as custom post types lets your site’s visitors to interact with your project by commenting on the updates and following via subscription. Keep everyone up to date with your project directly through your WordPress site!

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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

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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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