Buddypress is an awesome add-on for WordPress, turning an average blog into a full-featured Social Media Network or multi-user blog or forum. Buddypress Features new and robust tools built in for leveraging internal communication and promoting user interaction. Here are some highlights of why it’s often best to just build on Buddypress from the beginning rather than building on WordPress..
Tagged buddypress, facebook, Web Development
There are tons of wordpress twitter plugins, but none of them solved a problem I was facing. I wanted to display a feed from multiple accounts, but rather than showing them in order (some users tweet more than others) I instead wanted to show 1 from each account. So I threw together my own plugin to do so. Feel free to download and submit feature requests. Get it at WordPress.org.
Tagged PHP, Plugins, Web Development
Now that WordPress handles plugins a little bit better, I felt it was time to write my own plugin. This plugin is derived from many wasted hours trying to format the default wordpress tag cloud to make it look uniform or list style. So I quickly adapted some code to make an easy plugin for dynamic, flexible wordpress tags using the widgets. Documentation and changelog to follow, but for now check it out and help provide some feedback and code if you can.
Tagged PHP, Web Development