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 [...]


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 [...]