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An alternative way to change the default member avatar for your site

An alternative way to change the default member avatar for your site

Thanks for the great tip from our client, Mike Henry Sr. at LeadChangeGroup, for an alternative way to provide a custom avatar instead of using the default “mystery-man”.

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Introducing LabPhotos – The Ultimate BuddyPress Photo Management Plugin!

Introducing LabPhotos – The Ultimate BuddyPress Photo Management Plugin!

Our long-anticipated LabPhotos is finally here! In this quick sneak peek, we run you through the basics.

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Automatically direct members to their profile page when they sign in to your social network

Automatically direct members to their profile page when they sign in to your social network

In this tutorial, we show you how to “close the loop” and direct people to their profile page when they sign in to your social network.

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Feature the activity stream of your social network on the front page of your site

Feature the activity stream of your social network on the front page of your site

In this tutorial, we show you how easy it is to feature your social network activity stream on the front page, instead of showing your blog posts.

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Tabbed Submenu with JQuery Tools

An introduction for “Non-Developers” to JQuery – Instantly create Tabbed Submenus

In this tutorial we introduce you to how easy it is to access the power of JQuery User Interface tools on your LabSecrets Solution site.

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Add the Inbox Widget and display messages anywhere on your site

Add the Inbox Widget and display messages anywhere on your site

This is one of the goofiest videos we’ve ever made (n-e-e-d…m-o-r-e… c-o-f-f-e-e…) but also one of the simplest. With one drag and one drop, you can display your inbox messages on the home page or sidebar, or wherever you can drop a widget. Simple, easy, and useful for sites that have a lot of member interaction.

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Just three simple steps to replace the default “mystery man” with your own custom avatar

Just three simple steps to replace the default “mystery man” with your own custom avatar

In this tip of the day, we show you how to quickly replace that boring “mystery man” default avatar with something that more closely represents your network theme.

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Bounce is a fun and easy way to share ideas on a social network you create with the LabSecrets Solution

Bounce is a fun and easy way to share ideas on a social network you create with the LabSecrets Solution

In this tip of the day, we show you how to use Bounce as a tool for creating and sharing ideas and comments about your LabSecrets network design and layout. It may be that you share it with your internal team, or with a customer for whom you are building a site.

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Create A Social Network then become a CSS “magician” with the Shadow-Box Effect

Create A Social Network then become a CSS “magician” with the Shadow-Box Effect

In this tutorial, we show you how to use some pretty simple CSS in order to add a box-shadow effect to your site. This will work with any CSS3 compatible browser, so IE8, Safari, Firefox, Chrome.

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Create A Social Network then add custom Page Privacy in seconds!

Create A Social Network then add custom Page Privacy in seconds!

In this tutorial, we show you how you can use the power of the LabSecrets Solution to create custom templates for pages, posts and more. In particular, we show you how you can quickly add a template that you can select whenever you want to make a new page PRIVATE so that only registered and logged-in members can view.

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