Developing OTFA

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• WPMU Bug , 09 May 2008 in Community News& Development
  

  When is a page not a page? When it just will not save. We reckon this is a bug, but we are not sure what kind of bug it is. Could it be a problem with the WPMU layer? A conflict with one of the plugins? We are just not sure, so we’re testing things […]

• Thematically Yours , 08 May 2008 in Development& News
  

  Just a quick note to say we have been developing some small interface techniques, both for the community blogs and our overall for argyll homepage. yakking.forargyll.com has been added to our roster of blogs, and there’ll be more very soon. In the meantime, if you’d like to see the next iteration of our look, visit […]

• Social Networking on WPMU , 07 Mar 2008 in Development& Top News
  

  A misnomer to some extent: the social networking part of it hasn’t worked properly yet. The two functionalities which define social networking are of course ‘friends’ and ‘groups’ and we have implemented neither. The reason? Well, the two plugins available ‘Friend’s-List’ and ‘Groups’ are either not totally implemented, or not applicable to our environment. And […]

• Forumability , 23 Feb 2008 in Development& Top News
  

  … or something. After some serious research into the functionality of bbPress, the forum package we have used for our websites, and then some serious hacking about with the code, we have done what seemed at first an impossible thing: we have integrated our main website theme in the forum. And the really joyous thing, […]

• WPMU: Plugins that work , 19 Feb 2008 in Development& News
  

  One of the ever-expanding questions about the Multi-user version of WordPress is, what plugins actually work? Well, we have been road-testing a number and we’ve had the joy of instant portability (Lighter Admin Drop Menus: though we could do with some of those natty icons for the Mu-specific admin items) and the frustration of instant […]

• Retrench, Revise, Redevelop & Onward! , 19 Feb 2008 in Development& Top News
  

  We had a great feedback session on the websites the other day, and because of it we have peeled back the complexity of WPMU and a variety of subdomains, simplified the central website forargyll.com, revised the membership structure, secured the OFTA forum and begun the interesting process of integrating our wiki into the admin end. […]

• From Wiki to Friendly via other Goodies , 02 Feb 2008 in Development& Top News
  

  In the run up to our first session at Craignish we have been looking at expanding the functionality of the OTFA project, particularly increasing the levels of interaction we are able to accommodate through the site.
  First off the blocks, and for the most part due to a suggestion by one of our team-members, we have […]

• OTFA Forum , 19 Jan 2008 in Development& News
  

  Just a quick note to say we have just implemented a bbPress forum for the Out There For Argyll project, here. We’re still very much testing this feature, but any users of this website can log on and use it.
  As you’ll see we have created forums for the overall project, and each of the confirmed […]

• New Year’s Updates , 18 Jan 2008 in Development& Top News
  

  We have just added two more community blogs, ardfern.forargyll.com and womenatwork.forargyll.com, loaded them up with plugins, integrated them into the RSS WP installation and then released the ForArgyll theme on them.
  We’re also investigating the possiblities of ning.com and elgg.org, because as every blogger this side of Oz keeps saying, ‘08 is Social Networking year. Hmm, […]

• Standard Themes, Core Structures , 28 Nov 2007 in Development& News
  

  We have just implemented the same theme portal-wide to ensure a consistent look and feel. The differing colours of the original design were not working, provoking confusion and artificial distinctions in information, so we retreated to our original Radio Fyneside red. We have also moved the main news and media site to forargyll.com – this […]