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Experimenting with BuddyPress

One of the biggest developments in the WordPress software field this year is the release of the first version of BuddyPress – a social network layer to run on top of WordPress MultiUser (the software that runs UCalgaryBlogs.ca).
The most compelling features of BuddyPress are the ability for members to create their own groups, and to [...]

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UCalgaryBlogs.ca feedback survey

I’m trying out a new Survey plugin, which will let you run surveys as part of your WordPress site here at UCalgaryBlogs.ca – and thought it might be a good excuse to try to solicit some early feedback on the service itself.

If you have any feedback that isn’t captured in a checkbox in the survey, [...]

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WordPress Server Performance

I installed the awesome WP-Super-Cache plugin, which stores pages as static files. What does this mean? Well, for most users, absolutely nothing. Except that the server (and your blog) should continue to be nice and fast even if we get a fair amount of traffic. Performance caching is a good thing.

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