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An Updated Admin

Tuesday, 13th May, 2008 | Bug Hunt, Community News, Development, Top News | One

In our desire to trace the bug we have with the system we have upgraded to the latest and greatest version of WordPress. Everything is the same, and yet different. We apologise to everyone who may have been blind-sided by this, but we needed to get the WPMU working. Thus far it hasn’t worked, but [...]

Social Networking on WPMU

Friday, 7th March, 2008 | Development, Top News | One

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

Saturday, 23rd February, 2008 | Development, Top News | 3

… 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, [...]

Retrench, Revise, Redevelop & Onward!

Tuesday, 19th February, 2008 | Development, Top News | None

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

Saturday, 2nd February, 2008 | Development, Top News | None

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 [...]

New Year’s Updates

Friday, 18th January, 2008 | Development, Top News | None

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, [...]

The Missing Semi-Colon

Saturday, 24th November, 2007 | Development, Top News | None

Seems odd that a missing punctuation mark can cause chaos, but it does sometimes. We have had a planned break in service on our websites of just over 24 hours while we updated a couple of things on the website. However, when we tried to return to business as usual the application did not work. [...]