I’ve noticed more and more visitors come here looking for Social Networking content, themes, plugins and directories.
To help you out I’ve opened three new sections in my free link directory, Ning, Elgg and BuddyPress. So if you have a site powered by any of those platforms, feel free to add it to my directory.
I recently noticed a lot of South African bloggers mentioning a Ning powered Blogging Social Network, located at http://sabloggers.ning.com . It seems, however, that the site was closed down. I decided to setup a new Ning powered community at the same adress.
So, if you’re a South African blogger who would like to share and connect with other South African bloggers, please visit http://sabloggers.ning.com
Hi,
This is a quick thank you to all members of the PurpleHazard.com blog and Community. As of 2010 this blog is now community driven, with classifieds, forum and “post your article” sections it’s a great way for bloggers to get exposure and share blogging knowledge.
As such, we would like to invite old and new members to login/register and start adding classifieds, posts or general discussions. Posts and classifieds will be moderated. Please keep it blogging and SEO related.
We would also like to start with author revenue sharing. If you have any thoughts on that let us know.
If you have any questions please e-mail – support [at] purplehazard [.] com
It’s not exactly official, but it seems that Paypal could be available to South African users, in it’s full glory, come April.
According to the Twitter buzz FNB is in talks with Paypal to make their services available to South African users in April 2010. So far FNB has kept quiet, but did confirm rumors that they were in talks with the online payment company. It is unclear how the process will work, because according to South African Finance laws, drawing money from your Paypal account will still be classified as illegal.
If FNB’s proposed plans work, this will be a great time for South African e-traders.
I usually don’t post my most difficult questions in my blog, due to the fact that I’m the one who is supposed to sort it out and THEN post about it. This time it’s different.
I recently made a post about the new Elgg theme Orkut, which I’m using in my new blogging network, but shortly after I discovered CosmicBuddy, the BuddyPress theme. Now CosmicBuddy provides everything that Elgg already had, which made me use Elgg in the first place.
The question is, start over with BuddyPress and the new theme, or stick with Elgg, and a much easier to use Admin interface?
If you think you can help me solve this question please drop me a comment.
The MiniMeta Widget Plugin gives you complete control over your Wp Meta Widget. It’s great when you have a user driven WordPress blog and want your users to be able to login from the frontpage. You can see it in action in our sidebar.
Plugin includes :
Download it Here – http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/minimeta-widget.4.2.4.zip
Part of the WordPress CMS Series
BuddyDev.com launched a new BuddyPress theme entitled CosmicBuddy. It’s still in beta, but is safe to use. The theme is inspired by Orkut and looks amazing.
You can see the full demo here – : http://bpthemes.buddydev.com/comicbuddy/
Download it here – http://buddydev.com/http//buddydev.com/public-download/cosmicbuddy.zip
See the official release here - http://buddydev.com/buddypress/cosmic-buddy-the-free-theme-to-turn-your-buddypres-to-orkut-style-site/
Orkut is one of the latest and freshest fully functioning Elgg themes available for download. The theme is provided by Webgalli, who specializes in the design, coding and hosting of Elgg powered sites. It follows a farm fresh theme, is compatible with most plugins and the latest versions of Elgg.
Free Elgg Theme Orkut
You can dowload it straight from Webgalli - http://webgalli.com/?download=Orkut%20Theme
A while ago I started testing social networking scripts, but mostly got stuck on Elgg. I even setup a test site where I displayed different Elgg themes and plugins.
I recently decided to clean out the old files and database and replace it with a new fresh theme and settings. In the process a new Blogging Social Network developed, aptly named, SonOfaBlog (SOB), running on Elgg and a free theme from Webgalli.
If you would like to join a community, which I believe can contribute to the success of your blog and other’s , please visit www.sonofablog.info .
Social Network Includes blogging, networking, communities, collecting of news using feeds aggregation, social bookmarking and media sharing.
More and more people want to use WordPress as a complete CMS, but because of certain limitations and the lack of a “Complete CMS Wp Plugin”, many tend to shy away from the headache their efforts will lead to.
Fortunately WordPress and the WordPress community is always busy making new things to fix YOUR problems, with the click of a button. Most of them even do it for free. If you do some searching on the net you’ll come across thousands of WordPress plugins who fulfil certain requirements.
If you spend even more time you’ll be able to find everything you need for a complete CMS. Most of us don’t like searching for hours on end and prefer if someone just gave us all the links right now. Well, that’s what I’m going to attempt. Over the next few weeks I’ll add posts explaining the greatest and most sometimes most under appreciated plugins the Wp community has to offer.
So stick around.
Useful Plugins :
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