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WordPress Hook Sniffer v0.14 Released!

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

As I posted about ten-days ago, my WordPress Hook Sniffer had a cold, its sniffer all clogged up and not functioning properly. Today, I release a once-again healthy, new and improved Hook Sniffer plugin for all WordPress plugin developers. Read more »

Important Developers’ Notice: Please deactivate WordPress Hook Sniffer for the time being

Saturday, July 17th, 2010

If you are using my WordPress Hook Sniffer plugin, I ask that you please deactivate it at this time and remove the modified plugin.php file–the one that comes with the plugin–replacing it with the original version that ships with WordPress. Read more »

The Growing Panoply of Specialty BuddyPress Developer and Administration Tools

Saturday, May 8th, 2010

When it comes to the availability of useful, specialty plugins for site administrators and plugin developers, BuddyPress may be approaching an interesting inflection point. Recently, several new plugins have been released that help Read more »

BuddyPress Featured Members Plugin Widget Re-Released

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

After dragging my feet for too long, I’ve finally upgraded and updated my old Featured Members Widget to work with WP/MU 2.9.2 and BuddyPress 1.2.3. The code has been entirely rewritten using the WordPress Plugin API. Read more »

Introducing WordPress Hook Sniffer: a Developer Plugin

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

As a developer, one of the benefits to sophisticated Open Source projects like WordPress and BuddyPress is that a significant amount of foundational code is already in place. This makes adding additional functionality, additional value, to the platform easier. You just create a plugin. Read more »

WordPress Hooks, Barbs, and Snags

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

This article is intended to help you learn how to interpret the output from the WordPress Hook Sniffer developer’s tool

This article is my exhaustive study of what I thought was a simple little function—the do_action function. It details how WordPress action hooks really work. Read more »

Crap, GPL Questions Once Again

Monday, April 12th, 2010

Recently, someone sent me a private message on the BuddyPress.org community network. They had joined WPMU DEV and acquired all of their premium plugins. They wanted to know it they could, “release those plugins all to the buddypress / wp mu community without consequences.”

I wrote a response but decided to share it here as I periodically receive Read more »

Easy Code to Show Your Most Recent Tweets in WordPress

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

I’ve been reworking my website today and decided it was time to add a recent Twitter tweet to the front page. I checked out the Twitter widget and several (of the many) WordPress plugins that display your most recent tweets, but decided that they had a few issues. Read more »

A Flock of Twitters: Decentralized Semantic Microblogging

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

In my last article, Flocking To the Stream, I ended with this thought about the growing issue of social-networking fatigue:

…as the number of streams continue to increase and as the flow rate of each stream picks up, people will grow tired of having to subscribe to, having to join yet-another-stream phenomenon (YASP). Does the Web truly need additional stream providers each with their own data silos? Is there a user-centric solution to this rapidly growing, overflowing-stream issue that puts YASP to rest once and for all?

This article answers these two questions in great detail but the succinct preview version is as follows: Read more »

BuddyPress Privacy: Moving Toward a Privacy API

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

BuddyPress development is moving toward a modular, team-focused approach. In my mind, this is the biggest news that came out of the weekly BuddyPress developers’ chat Read more »

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