The past few months have been kind of hard for me. I had a phenomenal start to the year and brought in $80K by the end of June. I was pretty ecstatic. But my goal for this year was not to make a bunch of money, instead there was a service that I was working on called StudyChurch and I wanted to get that launched.
This is a quick introduction to a new plugin I just released on WordPress called BuddyPress Conditional Field Groups. This plugin enables site administrators to show/hide BuddyPress profile field groups to users based on user role. The intended application is for sites with a diverse user base that may want to collect and display different sets …
Here is a quick function that I wrote to determine whether or not a BuddyPress user is online. /** * Is the current user online * * @param $user_id * * @return bool */ function sc_is_user_online( $user_id ) { $last_activity = strtotime( bp_get_user_last_activity( $user_id ) ); if ( empty( $last_activity ) ) { return …
Project Discovery in the Jungle Once upon a time there was a brave safari guide. He loved exploring the jungle and knew the secret trails, spectacular sights, and hidden dangers better than anyone else around. The only thing he loved more than exploring was when groups of people who would hire him as their jungle …
Let’s say that you that you are building a custom application with BuddyPress (like maybe this) and you had a need to programmatically create a BuddyPress group. Now there are ways to customize the BuddyPress group creation process that I will cover in a future post, but there is actually a very simple function that …
A year and a half ago and the Mac terminal scared me spitless. I didn’t know how to do anything with it and I didn’t know of anything that I really wanted to do with it. Then I started working with Vagrant, and then Git, and then Grunt, and pretty soon the command line didn’t seem …
