Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 24th, 2008
As trumpeted here - I may be gadget-illiterate but hasn’t this iPhone thing been out for about a year? Why the arrival now?
Or has the memory been upgraded to the dizzy heights of 0.1MB or whatever - allowing these wonders to occur…?
Excerpted from:WordPress for iPhone
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 15th, 2008
A month ahead of schedule - which may or may not be a good thing - and coming complete with its own video for the youngsters.
What looks very good is the new plugin interface which divides active and inactive plugins, felt by many to be overdue.
Apparently, and this is only horrible rumour at this stage […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 9th, 2008
If you’re using WordPress as a CMS and doing some extra coding - for example picking something from an extra db table to display on a certain page, eg page_id=4
$pageVar = $wpdb->get_var(SELECT var FROM my_table WHERE something=’something_else’);
and then you also want to SEO the <title> a little, so in header.php you put:-
<?php if […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 7th, 2008
Maybe - another entrant to the small and select group of Firefox plugins that actually have some value….
Fireshot has a variety of editing tools that let users modify captured screen shots and add text and graphic notes.
Captured image can be saved to disk, copied to clipboard, emailed or opened in a new editor. File […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 4th, 2008
So the dreaded word “framework” creeps into the WordPress discussion
Framework, I venture to suggest, often means a serious overcomplication of code in the holy names of consistency, effective MVC, semantic accuracy and a few other buzzwords. I’ve had to sort out a fair few sites that used a PHP framework, where a couple of classes […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 3rd, 2008
Poker City is Las Vegas, I guess… Poker City is also a 2 column fixed-width free WordPress theme, with righthand sidebar, enabled for widgets.The theme is compatible with WordPress 2.3, 2.5 and 2.5.1, and has been tested on Firefox 2, Internet Explorer 6 and 7, and Opera 9.
Demonstration: Poker City Demo
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 2nd, 2008
So we’re up to WordPress 2.6 beta 2 - any sign yet of slimming down the jquery and the editor…? - had a client last week who simply couldn’t get the Write Post page loaded on their machine… admittedly a Mac on dialup, the former of which I’m sure makes no difference whatsoever.
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 26th, 2008
WordPress requires web hosting
…of some sort - so you can either
Buy some hosting from someone else,
Get some hosting from someone else for free (various alternative exist here… mostly involving someone else’s ads)
Or you can do it all yourself - set up a server on your desktop, and run your own WP site, until you […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 19th, 2008
Well, I never noticed that - having naturally been with Firefox since it was Phoenix and used to explode your machine with great regularity I don’t often need to touch other fine browser products….
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Here is the original: Browse Happy?
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 14th, 2008
In the the style of what was called for a while in 2006 a tumblog and would do fine for transferring Twitter utterances (if ever deemed worthwhile) Deadsimple is a 1 column fixed width theme, with all the meta info and links tucked away in the enabled for widgets footer.
The theme is compatible with WP […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 4th, 2008
I wonder whether there are any indices yet, as to whether the newish wondrous free Movable Type is making any dent in the supremacy of WP…
The pro nay-sayers, of which I would never consider myself one, have as their convention wisdom that 2.5 was the inevitable disaster - what goes up, must come down - […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on May 26th, 2008
Well, it’s mountains and snow yet again…. Alpen is a 2 column fixed width theme, with a right-hand sidebar, enabled for widgets.
User comments are separated from pingbacks/trackbacks, enabled for gravatars - and will work whether you’re using WP2.5 or lower - you won’t need the WordPress gravatar plugin.
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Posted in Uncategorized on May 22nd, 2008
Gotham, not to be confused with Gothamist, has New York as its subject. Never been there, I’m told it’s ok. It’s a 3 column theme, with a fixed width widget-enabled right-hand sidebar.
User comments are separated from pingbacks and trackbacks - they’re also gravatar-enabled and will work whether you’re using WP2.5 or lower (the WP […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on May 17th, 2008
Barbie Gone Bad, a symphony in pink and black is a 2 column theme, fixed width, with a widget-enabled right-hand sidebar.
Comments are gravatar-enabled and will work whether you’re using WP2.5 or lower. Comments are separated from pingbacks/trackbacks. (more…)
Originally posted here: WordPress Free Theme - Barbie Gone Bad
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Posted in Uncategorized on May 14th, 2008
Deserta is a fixed-width, 2 column theme with a right hand sidebar, enabled for widgets.
The comments are also gravatar-enabled and will work whether you’re using WP2.5 or lower. There’s also separation of user comments from pingbacks/trackbacks.
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The rest is here: Deserta Free WordPress Theme
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