How Can BuddyPress Developers Earn a Living?
In the WordPress ecosystem, when it comes to getting paid for time spent, it seems that theme designers are far ahead of plugin developers. GPLed–premium themes are not only an accepted part of this...
View ArticleCrap, GPL Questions Once Again
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...
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BuddyPress Featured Members Plugin Widget Re-Released
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...
View ArticleRelease of BuddyPress Privacy Component Pushed Back One Week
Yes, I know. What??? How could you??!! And just on the greatly-anticipated eve of BP Privacy’s release? Is this a warped event caused by a rip in the space-time continuum or possibly even triggered by...
View ArticleBP Privacy: History and Lessons Learned from Developing a Major BuddyPress...
Coding great-quality, open source software, while often rewarding, can also be a thankless, difficult task. As many have been asking for an update on BP Privacy–also known as the BuddyPress Privacy...
View ArticleBP Privacy v1.0-RC1 is now available!
Please read Important Notice section below. After more than 1500 hours of work, 7300 code and comment lines, and creation of a 38-page manual, BP Privacy release candidate one is now available for...
View ArticleIntegrating MongoDB Into BitNami’s MAMPStack
This article is for all you OS X Lion-based Mac developers who use BitNami’s MAMPStack and dream of being able to add a NOSQL database engine, like MongoDB, to the stack. If you are not running Lion,...
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Software With Freedoms, Not Free Software
I’ve been an open source advocate, devotee, user, and developer for many years. I’m a member of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). I frequently write about the Open Web, Social Web, and Open Source of...
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