Saturday was the day. The thought was rooted long time back in minds of Anil Gupta, Aslam Multani, Jaldip Upadhyay. It was regarding arranging some event that connects us to the society. On alternate working Saturdays, we normally do activities for personal growth. But when it came to doing a social activity, we thought visiting an “Old Age Home” would be a great experience. The idea floated in stand-up meeting and everybody agreed. We decided to prepare food packets – Thepla & Namkee
Continue Reading...On the day of 25th December, Multidots has celebrated Christmas with team. It was a great fun with music, games, dance & surprise gifts. Checkout the pics of such a wonderful memory.
Continue Reading...Prolific BuddyPress plugin author etivite has just released a plugin that automatically creates a group for administrators and moderators. BuddyPress Group for Community Admins and Mods creates a private group where all current group administrators and moderators can interact. Once you have this group in place, you can send out announcements to your community support staff. You can even give them a forum of their own to maintain community standards or just to blow off some steam. Download Bud
Continue Reading...The BuddyPress codex is always expanding, and I want to draw your attention today to two very useful tutorials. The theme development section contains information on everything from building your first child theme to modifying the admin bar. It also contains two valuable tutorials for integrating the default WordPress themes with BuddyPress 1.5+: Theme Dev: BP Template Pack Walkthrough – Twenty Eleven BP 1.5 Theme Dev: BP Template Pack Walkthrough – Twenty Ten BP 1.5 Take a walkthroug
Continue Reading...Last week I wrote an illustrated guide to installing and setting up BuddyPress 1.5+. I touched briefly on setting up forums but promised a more in-depth look. There are basically two types of forums made to work seamlessly with BuddyPress. Let’s take a look at the differences between the two. Group Forums vs. Sitewide Forums for BuddyPress When you set up BuddyPress, you’ll be presented with the option to add forums to your community. You can set up forums for groups or enable foru
Continue Reading...SortTable Post is a new handy plugin that allows you to easily display an index of posts in a sortable table using a shortcode. It even works with custom post types! This is a very useful way to display a long list of related posts. You can even use it to organize a library of information. Within the shortcode you can specify the custom post type, categories, tags, custom taxonomies, and columns to omit. Here is a screenshot from the live demo: The post names, dates, and categories are all
Continue Reading...Restricting group creation is something that many, if not most, BuddyPress sites want to have in place right away. Depending on how many options you need, there are a couple of solutions. The first and the easiest way is to restrict group creation to site admins only. This is actually built into BuddyPress since version 1.5. You can find it under the BuddyPress » Settings menu: Simply toggle it on or off. If you need more options than restricting group creation to admin only, then y
Continue Reading...Today Google launched Google + Pages, making it possible for us to set up our very own WPMU.org page on Google +! As if that wasn’t exciting enough, I’m going to walk you through the process of setting up your Google + page for your own business. [Update: You don't even need to integrate your Google+ Page manually anymore. You can use our snazzy free Google + plugin!] Just What Is a Google + Page? Well, it’s pretty much a Facebook page but on Google +. So like Facebook but with awesome vid
Continue Reading...Here’s a quick tip that will help you keep your users from deleting their own accounts on your BuddyPress social network. As of BuddyPress 1.5, the site administrator can go to BuddyPress » Settings and disable users from deleting their own accounts: The BuddyPress core has a number of these handy options added in with the latest release. Many of these configuration options previously required little hacks or plugins to accomplish, but now they’re as simple as selecting a ra
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