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bbPress Plugin: SEO

Friday, July 16th, 2010

I’m pleased to finally release version 2 of bbPress KJG SEO.

One of the great things about bbPress is that when it works, it blows away other forums. It doesn’t get many things right, but I feel with this plugin you’ll see a huge difference in your site’s SEO. It has almost all of the features of it’s WordPress counterparts and many more. Definately it’s something I’m very proud of, and it’s seeing great results in the beta tests. In the past 6 months, I’ve come to regard this bbPress Plugin as a must have – something that rarely happens as an overly critical developer.

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An open letter to Automattic re: the bbPress plug-in

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Dear Automattic,

My name is Kevinjohn Gallagher, and I’m one of the people to who contribute to bbPress.

I’ve mentioned this before, but after the announcement by Jane Well on the Official WordPress blog, and by Andrew Nacin on the WordPress development blog, I thought I’d take one last shot at a bit of sanity:

Please, stop calling the new forum plugin for WordPress the “bbPress plugin”.

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An Open Letter to BackPress Team

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Dear BackPress Team,

My name is Kevinjohn Gallagher, and I’m one of the people to who contribute to bbPress.

That is the standalone forum software available at bbpress.org, and not the BuddyPress plug-in called bbPress, nor the bbPress plug-in in the WordPress plug-in directory.

It is sometimes confusing as they all use the same name, so I find it’s best to be upfront about which one of the 3 pieces of software I am trying to help (even if I do sometimes feel like I’m saying that I’m the “People’s front of Judea” rather than the “Judean’s People’s Front” ).

With bbPress utterly reliant on BackPress for it’s next release, I am wondering if I could have 5 minutes of your time to discuss/asnwer the following questions:

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New Client: Heriot-Watt University

Friday, June 18th, 2010

I am pleased to announce the signing of a new client: Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.

Heriot-Watt are migrating their online information repository as part of the larger SAS Project, and today signed off on our pitch to create the web app on the WordPress platform. This will be the first time that Heriot-Watt have used WordPress for an externally facing website, and we’re very pleased that they have continued the trend of Scotland’s Top Universities (Edinburgh and Napier universities are previous clients) in choosing Kevinjohn Gallagher and PureWebBrilliant.com.

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4 months of silence

Sunday, May 16th, 2010

This weekend marks 4 month since bbPress received any official update on it’s blog, or has any of it’s “weekly” IRC triages; Matt has thrown his toys out of the pram, and publicly talked down the project at this year’s WordCamp, no-one knows if we’re meant to be working on the 1.0.3 trac or the 1.1 trac, and this version of the software is going to be it’s last.

So the question I want to ask is, where now for bbPress? Here are my thoughts…

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(Matt + holiday) = (bbPress – Matt) = (Matt – Fanboys) = Toys – Pram

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Matt + holiday = bbPress – Matt = Matt – Fanboys = Toys – Pram = bbpress – Automattic

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/whats-happening-with-bbpress/page/5#post-64410

I don’t think I’ve ever been so shocked at an adult’s childishness.

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Basic versus Standard

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Neither word is ideal in it’s definition of pre-packaged functionality, but lately I’ve seen far too many people confuse the two as interchangeable. It’s not just a case of semantics either, it’s a statement of what we can aim to achieve against public perception.
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bbprogress quits bbpress

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

Following the sudden removal of BBshowcase.org earlier in the week, it appears that BBprogress.com has decided to call time on the BBpress project as well.

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BBshowcase closes

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

After 6 months of silence from Automattic regarding BBpress, the most (only?) prolific developer, _ck_, has abandoned the project and closed her website. She was the driving force in keeping the project alive through the the last 2 years, and the slow uptake of BBpress 1.02 is almost entirely down to lack of support from her plugins.

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