Disclaimer: I would like to state (for the record) that I am not a programmer by any stretch of the imagination (I live on XHTML/CSS) and that the method below would not have been possible for me to implement without the help of two of my good programmer friends – Nielo and Stii … thanks – you guys rock (but then you already knew that). I have to point out that I have a firm grasp of the principles, it’s just my syntax mastery that is severely lacking, so the method is all mine, the code … not necessarily so.

Anyhow … to the point of this post. It would seem that one of the most requested features for BuddyPress, is a means of dividing (or at the very least being able to select individually) the member profile info groups. I needed to do this and also create a simple navigation to the profile groups, so my solution had two components. (more…)

The WordPress Classic Theme is one of my favorites (also the one used for this site), because it is simple and easy modify to your own taste. By default it is a fluid lay-out with absolute positioned sidebar (right) but with very little effort you can get it to look just about right.

The one aspect that is rather annoying though, is that when you disable comments on post or page, it still displays the comments footer and a message that comments are not allowed at present. Somewhat ugly if you create pages that you do not want your readers to comment on. “No problemo” says my friend and uber-l33t codemonkey … CharlVN and goes about hacking the theme. (more…)