Category: Notes

A category for notes and miscellaneous writings

Grappling with BP theme compatibility 1

Grappling with BP theme compatibility

Theme compatibility was introduced in BuddyPress 1.7 and allows site operators to use BP with any available WordPress theme. I have been way behind at updating BP Group Hierarchy to support theme compatibility, and...

Make P2 posts private by default (and control them with tags) 0

Make P2 posts private by default (and control them with tags)

The Wordpress theme P2 is great for collaboration and team discussion. Sometimes that discussion can be entirely public, and at other times it makes sense to put the entire site behind a login screen. But what if you want to combine a private discussion stream with public pages? Or mix public posts with private ones? This post will show you how to mix and match private and public posts on your P2 blog and will set up a framework for controlling post behavior through tags.

Serving koha-common with Plack 1

Serving koha-common with Plack

An update to my post on running the koha-common OPAC on Plack. With Koha 3.10 both the OPAC and Intranet can take advantage of the speed and efficiency of the Plack server. Follow these simple steps to get your catalog running better than ever, or follow the link to github for a script to handle the setup for you!

Plugins now available on GitHub

Plugins now available on GitHub

Most of my WordPress plugins are now mirrored on GitHub! This includes Networks for WordPress, which I have traditionally not linked back to this site.

Serving the koha-common OPAC with Plack 0

Serving the koha-common OPAC with Plack

If you’ve set up a Koha instance and been less than impressed with the responsiveness of the OPAC, this post is for you. Thanks to the hard work of the Koha Debian package team,...

Adding Externally-Authenticated Users to BuddyPress 2

Adding Externally-Authenticated Users to BuddyPress

BuddyPress does a great job integrating new users who register through your WordPress site into the community — optionally synchronizing profile information between BP and WP, and creating an activity feed item for new...