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Installing forums in Buddypress without sounding like a sailor!
Finally there is a compatible bbpress version to go with buddypress. I was having no luck before getting forums integrated into buddypress so I did the only smart thing I could think of. I walked away.
Now here we are about 2 months later and things are looking good. And even better, someone wrote up some detailed [...]
A Tale Of Two Tribes
Exactly one year ago Seth Godin started his triiibes.com network for the launch of his book “tribes”. We will call this Group A.
At the same time, I joined another social group that was also new and building its membership. This is Group B.
Looking back one year later, this is what I see they had in [...]
Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to submissions.ask.com:80 (Connection refused) in
Here is a new error I just found when updating a post:
Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to submissions.ask.com:80 (Connection refused) in ……/class-snoopy.php on line 1142
turns out the fsockopen is trying to connect to ask.com and failing.
The XML sitemap generator is the guy trying to make this connection so go to the settings for that [...]
I HATE spammers! Or… do I?
I run a social group that has about 100 members. The site averages about 20 hits a day and every few days a couple of people pop in and write a post or 2. It is active but it can go for a few days with no action.
Well, the other day I got spammed! Someone [...]
Main Buddypress environment object
I was looking for the cleanest way to reorganize some menu items and I happened across the core buddypress environment object: $bp.
To access this you will have to make it a global first.
global $bp;
echo $bp->loggedin_user->fullname;
This echos ‘admin’;
There are lots of good tidbits in there so if you are going to be doing some major [...]
Fun with the windows host file
Does apple.com use apache? It does on my PC.
If you want to use a domain on your PC instead of localhost, your windows host file is the key.
On XP or Vista, go to c:windows\system32\drivers\etc and open the host file. This file has no extension so don’t let that trick you. With vista you will have [...]
“More Fun Than A Sharp Stick In The Eye”
We just got finished with the video for my companies new Lanwndart game. Its pretty fun.
Wish I could tell you where the game is but we don’t have those mechanisms in place for some reason.
I am trying to change that.
WPMU Manually Approve New Members on Local Install
We had the conversation yesterday about local installs of WPMU and the problem with activating new users since email can be difficult (impossible?) to send out from your local pc.
First, the 2 reasons for wanting a local install are:
For local development of a site that will eventually made live
For a company intranet. Stuff that you [...]
Install WPMU on localhost with Xampp
I recently wanted to install WPMU (thats WordPress Multi User) locally and had a tough time in the process.
I finally got it worked out and like most things, it is actually quite easy if you leave out all the stuff that gets you in trouble.
I use Xampp to run apache locally, but I assume this [...]
Helpful Twitter searches
I have recently discovered some useful twitter search parameters.
Search within a date
To find all searches from some date until now, go to twitter.search.com and type in:
@mattkern since:2009-01-19
The “since” syntax gives you a nice date parameter in the yyyy/mm/dd format. You can also add “until” to get a particular time frame.
@mattkern since:2009-01-19 until:2009-01-26
This returns everyone that has referenced in [...]
