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Buddypress – Remove Friendship Notices

Posted by on Apr 19, 2010 in BuddyPress, Custom Plugins, Social Networking, Uncategorized, Wordpress | Comments Off

If you’re using Buddypress then you might know that when users become friends a notice is posted to their activity streams. In some cases you might not want that information to appear. We created a plugin that prevents those notices from being posted. Using it is extremely simple: Unzip the zip file, copy the PHP file to your plugins directory, and active it in the admin panel. That’s all there is to it. Check it out at our PHP Max Upload Settings plugin on our Custom WordPress Plugins...

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Simple Buddypress Profile Privacy

Posted by on Mar 18, 2010 in BuddyPress, Plugins, Security, Wordpress | Comments Off

BuddyPress is a cool platform – the latest version as of this writing is v1.2.2.1. Cool as it is, it’s still missing some features that a lot of people think are mandatory. For example, there are no privacy settings for user profile information. So anything you put in your profile will be viewable by everyone. And that’s not always a good thing. Sandra Petronic wrote a nice plugin for BuddyPress that introduces privacy settings for user profile data. It works by putting a series of radio buttons under search profile field...

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Just Released A New Buddypress Plugin

Posted by on Mar 18, 2010 in Asides, BuddyPress, Plugins, Security, Wordpress | Comments Off

We just released Simple Buddypress Profile Privacy. It lets users control who can see every part of their profile information. For Buddypress 1.2.x – Check it out!

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Going Beyond PHP’s Max Upload Size

Posted by on Feb 13, 2009 in Plugins, Server Tweaks, Wordpress | 0 comments

PHP has a size limit that controls how large of a file you can upload. Many people wind up bumping into that limit when the attempt to upload large files. For example, big images, long audio files, or large video files. When you try to exceed the limit PHP will generate an error. Sometimes there’s nothing you can do about that because of restrictions imposed by your hosting company. But, sometimes you can get around that problem with a little help. What needs to be done is to raise PHP’s max_upload_size value. But since you might...

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Maximum Security for WordPress

Posted by on Feb 13, 2009 in Featured, Plugins, Security, Wordpress | Comments Off

WordPress security is a major concern for most people and they typically do their best to take care of their sites. However, once in a while there is a lapse of some sort and the next thing you know someone breaks into a site and wreaks havoc. Over the past several months we’ve fixed many WordPress sites that were hacked. And that’s exactly why we are developing Maximum Security for WordPress, the most powerful security plugin available. Maximum Security is packed with strong protection that guards against intrusion; tracks a...

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Security for WordPress

Posted by on Jan 16, 2009 in Asides | Comments Off

Here ya go, check this out: WordPress Security plugin – Maximum Security for WordPress. It’s about to be released as a beta. Check out the list of features that help make WordPress secure.

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Clarity FI

Posted by on Oct 5, 2008 in Asides | Comments Off

We just finished another great Web site – this one for Clarity FI, a business consulting and management services firm that helps organizations chart the clearest path to success. When choosing their own path to online success they partnered with Simpler Computing!

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