Tag: theme compatibility

  • Medium Style Commenting Plugins For WordPress Highlight Difficulty In Theme Compatibility

    Medium Style Commenting Plugins For WordPress Highlight Difficulty In Theme Compatibility

    The other day, I came across a brand new WordPress plugin in beta by Richard Tape called WP Side Comments. Based on Eric Anderson’s SideComments.js to enable inline commenting, WP Side Comments adds Medium.com style inline commenting to WordPress. With this plugin installed, each paragraph can be commented on instead of all the comments being at…

  • Why WordPress Theme Authors Still Need to Specify BuddyPress Compatibility

    Why WordPress Theme Authors Still Need to Specify BuddyPress Compatibility

    When BuddyPress 1.7 was released in April 2013, the most anticipated new feature was WordPress theme compatibility. This marked a turning point in BuddyPress history and meant that sites no longer required a BuddyPress-specific theme. Prior to 1.7, use of the plugin depended on having a BP-enabled theme. Developers had to do quite a bit…