The Agenda includes:

• WordPress News
• Demonstration of WordPress Multisite
• Discussion of bbPress with Zain
• Questions & Answers
• Troubleshooting session
• A Chance to show off your WordPress site

This month I’d like to continue the troubleshooting session idea. I’d like to break the group into separate sessions for a while with people helping each other with little issues or problems. So, if you have an issue with your site, come along with the details and maybe bring your laptop. If you are a knowledgable WordPress user or developer come along willing to help out.

If you have other suggestions for items to go on the agenda, please comment here or on the mailing list.

Anyone with any experience of WordPress is welcome, whether you’ve heard about it and want to know more, or you’re a WordPress developer, you’re welcome to our meetings.

MWUG is run by Mike Little (http://zed1.com), co-founder of WordPress with Matt Mullenweg (http://ma.tt/about), so come along to discover how WordPress can benefit you or your organisation, and get specific advice on any WordPress questions you have.

Subscribe to our Mailing list (http://groups.google.com/group/manchester-wordpress-user-group), check out our website (http://mwug.info), follow us on Twitter (http://twitter.com/mwug), join us on Linked In (http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Manchester-Wordpress-User-Group-3125011), or like our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/manchester.wordpress.user.group

See you at MWUG!

Meanwhile, you can still keep in touch via the mailing list. If you haven’t yet joined, you can do so using the form in the sidebar.

I hope everyone has a great holiday, and I’ll see you in the new year.

Mike

The Agenda includes:

• WordPress News
• AllFM group project final report
• An overview of the Theme Review Guidelines
• Questions & Answers
• Troubleshooting session
• A Chance to show off your WordPress site

This month I’d like to continue the troubleshooting session idea. I’d like to break the group into separate sessions for a while with people helping each other with little issues or problems. So, if you have an issue with your site, come along with the details and maybe bring your laptop. If you are a knowledgable WordPress user or developer come along willing to help out.

If you have other suggestions for items to go on the agenda, please comment here or on the mailing list.

Anyone with any experience of WordPress is welcome, whether you’ve heard about it and want to know more, or you’re a WordPress developer, you’re welcome to our meetings.

MWUG is run by Mike Little (http://zed1.com), co-founder of WordPress with Matt Mullenweg (http://ma.tt/about), so come along to discover how WordPress can benefit you or your organisation, and get specific advice on any WordPress questions you have.

Subscribe to our Mailing list (http://groups.google.com/group/manchester-wordpress-user-group), check out our website (http://mwug.info), follow us on Twitter (http://twitter.com/mwug), join us on Linked In (http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Manchester-Wordpress-User-Group-3125011), or like our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/manchester.wordpress.user.group

See you at MWUG!

The Agenda includes:

• WordPress News
• AllFM group project report
• Running an ePetition with WordPress (with Gurbir Singh)
• Questions & Answers
• Troubleshooting session
• A Chance to show off your WordPress site

New this month is the troubleshooting session. I’d like to break the group into separate sessions for a while with people helping each other with little issues or problems. So, if you have an issue with your site, come along with the details and maybe bring your laptop. If you are a knowledgable WordPress user or developer come along willing to help out.

If you have other suggestions for items to go on the agenda, please comment here or on the mailing list.

Anyone with any experience of WordPress is welcome, whether you’ve heard about it and want to know more, or you’re a WordPress developer, you’re welcome to our meetings.

MWUG is run by Mike Little (http://zed1.com), co-founder of WordPress with Matt Mullenweg (http://ma.tt/about), so come along to discover how WordPress can benefit you or your organisation, and get specific advice on any WordPress questions you have.

Subscribe to our Mailing list (http://groups.google.com/group/manchester-wordpress-user-group), check out our website (http://mwug.info), follow us on Twitter (http://twitter.com/mwug), join us on Linked In (http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Manchester-Wordpress-User-Group-3125011), or like our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/manchester.wordpress.user.group

See you at MWUG!

The issue of debugging and specifically logging came; Phil Norton reminded us of his write-up of the last time I mentioned the subject.

Phil also asked about dynamically powering a secondary menu using WordPress’ built in navigation menus. He also found that the navigation system doesn’t always highlight, the appropriate menu item when you are in certain parts of a site. For example, if you have a category link in your navigation menu, WordPress doesn’t automatically highlight that menu item when you are viewing a post with that category [actually I think that's fixed now, at least it's working for me in WordPress 3.2.1 using a TwentyTen child theme]. I think he ended up having to hack a couple of off the shelf plugins to get to his solution, and even writing his own custom walker. One of the plugins mentioned by Perry was List Pages at Depth. Although slightly out of date, Perry recommended it.

I also mentioned that I had written some code using one of the hooks around the menu navigation but couldn’t recall the hook. I found it this morning.

The hook I was using is the wp_nav_menu_objects filter. My code removes a couple of items if the user is not logged in.

add_filter('wp_nav_menu_objects', 'aep2010_logged_in_menu', 10, 2);
function aep2010_logged_in_menu($sorted_menu_items, $args) {
    if ($args->theme_location == 'primary' && !is_user_logged_in()){
        foreach ($sorted_menu_items as $index => $item) {
            if ( $item->post_name == 'forum' ) {
                unset( $sorted_menu_items[$index] );
            }
            if ( $item->post_name == 'members' ) {
                unset( $sorted_menu_items[$index] );
            }
        }
    }
    return $sorted_menu_items;
} // end aep2010_logged_in_menu

Around the same space is the filter wp_nav_menu_args which could be used to swap menus based on the context of the page being displayed.

I also talked about the group project to build a new site for AllFM community radio. Unfortunately progress on this project has been slow to non-existent recently. I appealed for one or more of our members to come up with some wire-frames on how the new site might look. If you want to get involved ask on the mailing list (you can sign up in the sidebar), and I’ll add you to the BaseCamp project we are using to co-ordinate the thing.

Perry, at earlier prompting from Gurbir, demonstrated the newly updated WordPress Android App for us all including the ability to post with photos directly from your phone. It took a little fiddling with web cams and Phil’s backward netbook to enable us all to see the demo — you can’t get that many people to crowd around a phone screen!

There were a few other bits and bats talked about, but I never write enough notes! I hope a pleasant evening was had by all.

If you want to attend next months meeting, please do come along, everyone is welcome. In the meantime sign up to the mailing list and keep an eye out for what will be on the agenda.

Speaking of agendas, if anyone has a little talk on something WordPress related they’d like to give to the group, please shout up on the mailing list. It doesn’t have to be anything fancy, or long, and it especially doesn’t need slides (though if you have them great!) It can be a simple as “How I used plugins X and Y to achieve effect Z on my site”. Or perhaps “How to set up an ePetition on WordPress” *cough* Gurbir *cough*.

Update: Gurbir has volunteered to do a demo on setting up petitions next month .

If you attended last night, and I missed something worth noting, please leave a comment.

See you all next month.

The Agenda includes:

• WordPress News
• AllFM group project report
• Questions & Answers
• Chance to show off your WordPress site
• News of future WordCamps

If you have other suggestions for items to go on the agenda, please comment here, or on the mailing list.

Anyone with any experience of WordPress is welcome, whether you’ve heard about it and want to know more, or you’re a WordPress developer, you’re welcome to our meetings.

MWUG is run by Mike Little (http://zed1.com), co-founder of WordPress with Matt Mullenweg (http://ma.tt/about), so come along to discover how WordPress can benefit you or your organisation, and get specific advice on any WordPress questions you have.

Subscribe to our Mailing list (http://groups.google.com/group/manchester-wordpress-user-group), check out our website (http://mwug.info), follow us on Twitter (http://twitter.com/mwug) or join us on Linked In (http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Manchester-Wordpress-User-Group-3125011)

See you at MWUG!

The Agenda includes:

• WordPress News
• AllFM group project report
• WordPress Flossmanuals Book Jog
• Questions & Answers
• Chance to show off your WordPress site
• News of future WordCamps

Anyone with any experience of WordPress is welcome, whether you’ve heard about it and want to know more, or you’re a WordPress developer, you’re welcome to our meetings.

MWUG is run by Mike Little (http://zed1.com), co-founder of WordPress with Matt Mullenweg (http://ma.tt/about), so come along to discover how WordPress can benefit you or your organisation, and get specific advice on any WordPress questions you have.

Subscribe to our Mailing list (http://groups.google.com/group/manchester-wordpress-user-group), check out our website (http://mwug.info), follow us on Twitter (http://twitter.com/mwug) or join us on Linked In (http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Manchester-Wordpress-User-Group-3125011)

See you at MWUG!

The Agenda includes:

• WordPress News
• AllFM group project report
• Questions & Answers
• Chance to show off your WordPress site
• Report from WordCamp Portsmouth UK

More suggestions are welcome, please leave a comment here, or on the mailing list.

Anyone with any experience of WordPress is welcome, whether you’ve heard about it and want to know more, or you’re a WordPress developer, you’re welcome to our meetings.

MWUG is run by Mike Little, co-founder of WordPress with Matt Mullenweg, so come along to discover how WordPress can benefit you or your organisation, and get specific advice on any WordPress questions you have.

Subscribe to our Mailing list, check out our website, follow us on Twitter, join us on Linked In or ‘like’ us on Facebook.

Earlier today the WordPress team noticed suspicious commits to several popular plugins (AddThis, WPtouch, and W3 Total Cache) containing cleverly disguised backdoors. We determined the commits were not from the authors, rolled them back, pushed updates to the plugins, and shut down access to the plugin repository while we looked for anything else unsavory.

We’re still investigating what happened, but as a prophylactic measure we’ve decided to force-reset all passwords on WordPress.org. To use the forums, trac, or commit to a plugin or theme, you’ll need to reset your password to a new one. (Same for bbPress.org and BuddyPress.org.)

As a user, make sure to never use the same password for two different services, and we encourage you not to reset your password to be the same as your old one.

Second, if you use AddThis, WPtouch, or W3 Total Cache and there’s a possibility you could have updated in the past day, make sure to visit your updates page and upgrade each to the latest version.

via WordPress › Passwords Reset.

Click here to read the notes.