CUNY Academic Commons Development Blog http://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu building CUNY Communities since 2009 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:18:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Commons 1.3.12 http://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/04/12/commons-1-3-12/ http://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/04/12/commons-1-3-12/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:18:08 +0000 Boone Gorges http://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=558 I’ve just released version 1.3.12 of the CUNY Academic Commons. 1.3.12 is a bugfix release, with the following changes:

  • Some updates to the JITP WP theme
  • Added WP plugin: News Announcement Scroll
  • Added social media icon shortcode for News and About pages

For complete details, visit the 1.3.12 milestone.

]]> http://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/04/12/commons-1-3-12/feed/ 0 Welcoming Ray and Dom to the dev team http://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/04/10/welcoming-ray-and-dom-to-the-dev-team/ http://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/04/10/welcoming-ray-and-dom-to-the-dev-team/#comments Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:25:15 +0000 Boone Gorges http://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=547 The CUNY Academic Commons is delighted to welcome two new members to its development team: Raymond Hoh and Dominic Giglio.

Raymond Hoh is one of the most respected members of the WordPress and BuddyPress community. Known around the WordPress community as r-a-y, Ray is a frequent contributor to the BuddyPress project, the developer of a number of popular plugins for WP, BP, and bbPress, and a longtime forum moderator at buddypress.org. Ray brings to our team a depth and breadth of BuddyPress experience that is practically unparalleled. Follow @ray_i_am on Twitter or r-a-y on Github.

In truth, Ray is not exactly a new member of our team – there was a period last year when Ray did a bit of BuddyPress-related work for the Commons. As we’ve begun to ramp up work on Commons In A Box, we’ve invited Ray back on board to play a major role in turning CBox into a powerful platform. Among other responsibilities, Ray will be playing a leading role in building: a reply-by-email feature for BuddyPress; a variety of improvements to BP forums and profiles as they appear in Commons In A Box; and an overhaul to upload handling in BuddyPress that will bring together into a simple API uploads associated with groups, forums, and BuddyPress Docs.

Dominic Giglio is the most recent addition to the Commons dev team. Dom is a student in Computer Science at BMCC. He’s known in the WordPress world for a popular blog post explaining the WP initialization process, as well as for his contributions to the WordPress section of Smashing Magazine. Dom’s experience doing development along the whole LAMP stack – from WP theme building to hardware work – promises to round out our team in an invaluable way. Dom is on Twitter on @human_shell and on Github as humanshell.

For the time being, Dom will be focusing on improving the CUNY Academic Commons experience, and he’ll be picking up more responsibility on Commons In A Box as development progresses.

Welcome to the team, guys!

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  • Fixed a bug that caused our non-CUNY signup code plugin to lose its metadata on autosave
  • Modified activity reply links so that they point toward the Doc in question in the case of BuddyPress Docs content
  • Adds a proper meebome widget
  • Makes some page titles more consistent in BuddyPress directories

For full details on the release, visit the 1.3.11 milestone.

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For full details on the release, see the 1.3.10.1 milestone.

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  • Added a new debug tool to help resolve issues with blog authors occasionally being demoted on their blogs.
  • Changed some configurations to help with overly aggressive browser cache
  • Fixed the Read More javascript on group announcements and activity updates
  • Added a new WP plugin for advanced tag clouds

For full details on the release, visit the 1.3.10 milestone.

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For details on the release, visit the 1.3.9.1 milestone.

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For full details on the release, visit the 1.3.9 milestone.

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  • Repaired a problem with BuddyPress Docs that preventing editing in some cases
  • Provided a missing Flash media player file

For complete details on the release, visit the 1.3.8 milestone.

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For complete details, see the 1.3.7.1 milestone.

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