Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 28th, 2008
So it’s the first 5000 lucky punters in the survey - that’s how it works… And this exercise in focus group ‘democracy’, well, that has a nice feel, does it not? (more…)
See original here: WordPress 2.7 User Interface survey
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Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 22nd, 2008
Alpen 3column - a completely updated version of the 2 column theme - this time with a two column right hand-sidebar, both enabled for widgets. In addition, the theme now has post comments separated from pingback/trackbacks and support for gravatars.
The theme has been tested on Firefox 2, Internet Explorer 6 and 7, and Opera 9.
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Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 18th, 2008
Hmm, web services to service a smaller and smaller niche, with plugins to handle your every whim and desire - a WP plugin to import the listings of your CellarTracker wine cellar into your WordPress installation.
And we’ve survived quite well with just a duplicate-content plugin and that’s about it.
Read the original: WordPress Plugins
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Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 17th, 2008
Some signs of democracy… ? The proposed WordPress v2.7 Navigation Options poll announced multiply a couple days ago seems to have paused, if not died.
The poll - not quite a survey - by last thing yesterday was showing as ‘closed’ - so maybe the result was entirely clear-cut and no need to go any […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 7th, 2008
ACMS theme is fully updated for the (wondrous) WordPress version 2.6. It’s available for demo and download here.
Revisions include support for gravatars and pingback/trackback separation from user comments.
Originally posted here: Wordpress Theme - ACMS
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Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 20th, 2008
Oh well, WordPress > extend > themes seems to have ground to a halt, temporary or otherwise, fairly early on in its bright new career - which is a pity, if this is going to be the advertised “good centralized place” - a job that weblogtoolscollection does rather well on a much more ad […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 31st, 2008
In the course of producing a theme that uses wp_list_pages for the standard menu, with a whole list of args, including exclude, as documented here, I find a series of non-standard behaviours - particularly when using a .mo file in the theme directory and in /wp-content/languages/
This is only with wp_list_pages for 2.5 upwards, WordPress […]
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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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