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nobuyuki
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Thanks Skid!
I’ve managed to avoid ANY web coding so far – wordpress is pretty damned cool.
(Like the monkey labs name too…might pinch it).
I was just admiring your term monkey town, which I think is even more funky.
Wow… New site.
Looks great!Off to have a look around.
Yep, wordpress is pretty impressive these days!
Hi there, and nice to be here as well. It looks nice and functional, and it’s easy to extend of course looking at all the wordpress plugins available… Keep it up!
All the best with the monkey 2 development, looking forward to working with it
I work in WordPress all the time so if you need any pointers on anything give me a shout!
A couple of plugins I can recommend for starters: Wordfence which is a security plugin which has various features for scanning for malware, blocking IPs etc., and also Anti Spam by CleanTalk does a great job at stopping spambots for only about $7 a year which you’re bound to have issues with at some point, I use it on my site and it stops loads all the time, was a real pain without it, stats here: https://cleantalk.org/my/stat?aaid=62ef759c
Wordpress is also php 7 compatible already too which is 2 or 3 times faster than 5.x, might want to check your plugins are compatible too though before upgrading.
> I work in WordPress all the time so if you need any pointers on anything give me a shout!
Thanks!
I had to learn about functions/bbpress.php (I think it was) this morning to turn of the default ‘notify me of replies…’ check (which turned out to be a theme issue). I wasn’t too happy about having to resort to ‘programming’, but it only involved commenting out a function so it wasn’t too bad.
A quick question: one of the reasons I choose this theme was because it worked reasonably well with bbpress, and a lot of themes don’t. Are there any other cool themes you can recommend that also ‘just work’ with bbpress?
> CleanTalk does a great job at stopping spambots for only about $7 a year
Yep, I’ve got CleanTalk installed but haven’t forked out for the anti-spam yet. Now the sites live I’ll expect I have to soon, but it’s already done a great job blocking spam registrations. I accidentally left the site ‘live’ a while ago, came back a few hours later and there were like 10 new spam users!
[edit]Just subscribed to CleanTalk![/edit]
Yeah themes can be a bit hit and miss sometimes. A good resource I like use is the envato market place, specifically themeforest.net. Although the WordPress themes there are not free, the standard is usually high, (not always! But you can check the user comments and ratings for any gotchas). Some of the themes specify bbpress compatibility but it’s always worth checking with the author. I should think the majority will work fine and perhaps just need some css tweaks at the most. I got my theme for rigsoft from themeforest and I don’t think it specified bbpress but it it worked fine.
You could stick with this theme for now as it seems to serve the purpose well enough, and then when monkey2 is closer to a full release and you’re a bit more comfy with WordPress you can think about sprucing it up a bit
It’s worth noting also that it’s good practice to create a child theme of whichever theme you’re using (if you’re not already) so that you can make changes to the theme without overwriting the original. That way if there’s an update to the theme you won’t lose your changes. More on that here.
I do enjoy the look and feel so far, at least on mobile (haven’t tried the forums yet on my pc). Finally, timestamps!
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