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Here is the Wordpress function that you can use in your plugin or theme to get complete user information using his/her login username.
BuddyPress 1.2 Released – Now Install Social Networking Plugin on Standard Wordpress Too
BuddyPress 1.2 has been released with some awesome features and options. The most important one is that now you don’t need to have Wordpress MU to install BuddyPress. You can install this social networking plugin on standard i.e. normal Wordpress setup as well. Buddypress 1.2 is having lot many other features as well.
Buddypress is a social networking plugin which can be easily install on Wordpress setup and then your blog can become a social networking platform like Ning. Now Buddypress 1.2 is out and there are lot many features in it. Here is the list of new features included in BuddyPress 1.2.
Upgrade To Wordpress 2.9.2 If Having Untrusted Authors on Sharing Blog
Wordpress has released version 2.9.2 with a simple update for those who has open their blog registration for everyone and having untrusted users. If your blog is having untrusted logged in users then they can play with he “Trash” posts written by other authors as well. FYI, Trash feature came in Wordpress 2.9 to keep the deleted posts for time being and then you can permanently delete them from your blog. But as reported by some Wordpress developers, every logged in user is having unwanted access to trash posts even written by other authors.
Old Permalinks 301 Redirect to New Permalinks with Wordpress Plugin
At initial stage of bogging on Wordpress, you may choose a particular format for permalink i.e. URL of posts, Categories etc for your Wordpress blog and after reading some posts about SEO, now you want to change the format. Then you must be afraid of loosing old back-links and traffic. As you know that if previous URL gets a permanent redirect (301 Redirect) to the new URL structure then there is no worry about traffic loss. Wordpress users can change the URL format i.e. permalink structure at any point of time without loosing traffic by using a simple to use plugin.
First Look – Wordpress 3.0 MU Merge Settings To Create Network Blogs
Last month we published an update about Wordpress 3.0 that it is going to have Wordpress and Wordpress MU merged in it. Today, at the time of testing the first alpha of Wordpress 3.0, I thought to show the special page created for Wordpress MU in Wordpress 3.0. Under Settings panel on Dashboard, a new tab is added named as “Network” which will be used for creating multiple sites as sub-directory or sub-domain. Read the post to see the first look of Network Settings age of Wordpress 3.0.
Post a New Article on Wordpress Blog by Sending an Email
There are lot many ways to post an article on a Wordpress blog, for example you can use desktop clients like Windows Live Writer on Windows or KBlogger on Linux or directly post article thru admin panel (dashboard) of Wordpress setup. But if these options are not available to you because of some reasons then you may use your email client like Outlook or Gmail or other webmail for sending an email to post a new article on your blog. Checkout the details.
Upgrade to Wordpress 2.9.1 Stable Version
Finally, Wordpress has released the stable version of Wordpress 2.9.1 which is ready to download or you can upgrade automatically from your Dashboard.
Wordpress Plugin to Show Latest Posts from other Blogs or Sites Using their Feed
Earlier we talked about couple of ways to add/show latest posts from other domain, site, blogs, forum on your own site, but in those options there were some restrictions. So now I will let you know about a Wordpress plugin thru which you can add as many sections as you want on your blog to show latest posts from multiple sites (of course you can add posts from major sites like Mashable, Lifehacker etc. as well).
Add Nofollow Attribute To The Link To Comments Generated Thru Wordpress comments_popup_link
Here is a simple three line code to be added to your Theme Functions file to make all the comment links generated by comments_popup_link Wordpress Template Tag ‘no follow’ for the search engines like Google.