May 28, 2011 at 2:42 pm in Beginner Tutorials, BuddyBoss Theme, BuddyPress by Michael Eisenwasser (Admin)
We highly suggest learning about and using a “child theme” to ensure easy updating of your BuddyBoss theme. As powerful and polished as the theme is today, it will only get better as time goes on and we want you to be able to take advantage of future updates.
Without a child theme, you have to edit the core theme files to makes edits to the theme. However, when we release an update to the theme you will have to figure [read more →]
Dec 10, 2010 at 8:15 pm in Beginner Tutorials, BuddyPress by Michael Eisenwasser (Admin)
If you have been running a BuddyPress site without any spam protection, you will probably notice that you are receiving a lot of spam. The biggest areas for spam are:
- fake user signups
- fake activity updates
- fake blog comments
- fake blogs created (if you have user blogs enabled in BuddyPress)
This can be incredibly annoying and can dilute the user experience on your site. It’s fairly easy to stop the automated spam, which accounts for the vast majority. There are human spammers as well – [read more →]
Aug 31, 2010 at 5:36 pm in Beginner Tutorials, WordPress by Michael Eisenwasser (Admin)
WordPress 3.0 was recently released as a major update to the WordPress content management system. In this post I will explain some of the bigger features included with WP 3.0.
1. WordPress MU merged into WordPress
WordPress Multi-User, better known as WordPress MU, has existed for years as an offshoot of WordPress. WordPress 3.0 merged all of the MU functionality into the core of WordPress, which means that you can now run multiple sites from one installation of WordPress. This is particularly useful [read more →]
Aug 26, 2010 at 6:00 pm in Beginner Tutorials, BuddyPress by Honey Young
When you install BuddyPress into your WordPress site, it comes with the BuddyPress default theme. This is set up this way so that as soon as you install BuddyPress, you can immediately use it without having to install and run a theme you’d have to download somewhere else.
However, you are not limited to this theme. There are a lot of other BuddyPress themes that you can download and customize to fit your site’s design. You can find premium BuddyPress themes [read more →]
Aug 22, 2010 at 7:28 pm in Beginner Tutorials, WordPress by Michael Eisenwasser (Admin)
WordPress can be installed two ways. You can do it using the “Fantastico” instant WordPress install as provided by certain web hosts. If you are not using a host that has Fantastico or just prefer to do it manually, you can install it via FTP. I will go over both methods below.
Skip to the manual install tutorial.
Installing WordPress using Fantastico
Some web hosts offer a service called Fantastico which allows you to install WordPress in under a minute. We recommend using [read more →]
