I’m very pleased today to announce the release of Capsule, the developer’s code journal. Capsule replaces the scratch document you have…
GameTonight now creates a module for Panic’s excellent Status Board iPad app. The URL is simple, add ‘/statusboard’ to any metro…
I’ve just released an initial beta of Threads, a WordPress plugin I’ve been working on for about a year. The idea is simple: show posts…
I’m very excited about today’s release of Social 2.0, a WordPress plugin from MailChimp. This is perhaps my favorite WordPress plugin; it is complex and ambitious, but I love the way it helps build a bridge between social networks and WordPress – a platform where we can really own our data. Social has a couple…
I have been moving Crowd Favorite‘s Open Source projects to GitHub (as well as my personal projects). GitHub has great tools for this. We created an organization, added the team members to that organization, and created repositories for our projects. As a few of our projects have enjoyed exactly the sort of developer community engagement…
We have been working hard on a new version of the MailChimp’s Social plugin for WordPress. We have packaged a beta version for public testing (2.0b3, currently running on this site). Download from GitHub We are hoping for a general release of version 2.0 on Monday, so please report any issues you find in the…
My company, Crowd Favorite, is hiring a technical project manager / web producer to join our team in our Denver office. If you love working with the latest and greatest web technology (we specialize in building Big Things with WordPress and Open Source) and want to join a top-notch team with world-class clients and projects,…
The bar, raised.
While our post formats admin UI is getting a nice warm reception (100+ tweets, pings and comments, wow!), there is a concern that has popped up a few times – one that I included a nod towards in my original post. What happens when publishers put important data in the post format custom fields, then…
The Post Formats feature that landed in WordPress 3.1 is a great framework feature. I’m leveraging it extensively on this site to drive my link, status, photo and gallery posts. While it is a great framework feature, it only really exists as something developers leverage to extend WordPress. There is no UI that ships with…
We’ve moved back into our office, but things aren’t going to be done done for a while still. The good news is we can stop paying rent on the temporary space. I’d say we’ll be all wrapped up by Halloween. Here are some shots of the painting and carpet installation. I’ll do a wrap-up post…
Crowd Favorite is hiring! We’re looking to add a designer with good HTML and CSS chops to join our front-end team in our Denver, CO office. I’m certainly biased, but I think this is a pretty great position. You will get to: work with latest web standards work on high-profile websites conceptualize and create new…
We’re in the process of remodeling the Crowd Favorite office – basically re-configuring the space to make it work better for us. Here are some shots of the progress. Luckily we were able to move into a temporary space just across the street while the construction is underway. It’s a little darker than our normal…
With apologies to WordCamp SF (which was quite good), I think Monktoberfest may be the conference I’m most eagerly anticipating this year. From their FAQ: Is this another social media conference? Not at all. Think more along the lines of GitHub’s motto: “social coding”. Our speakers will be exploring how social trends can change the…
I’ve released an updated version of Drafts Dropdown. This is a WordPress plugin that gives you easy access to your draft posts. A “Drafts” link is added to the admin bar. Clicking this drops down a drawer with your drafts. The new version also updates the styling, improves performance, and will make you younger, fitter…
Devin and I are in San Francisco for WordCamp this weekend. I’m looking forward to catching up with some old friends and meeting some new folks in the WordPress community. I’ve also got a couple of core tickets to lobby on – look out Nacin! I’m always happy to talk about the technical details of…
Social is a new WordPress plugin that makes it easier for you to connect your WordPress site to other social web networks. Download This thing is really cool, for a number of reasons. I’ll dive into those in a bit, but first head on over to the MailChimp blog to see the official release announcement.…
Yesterday we released CF GUID-Fix, a plugin to address an issue that could cause problems for folks using our RAMP content-deployment product for WordPress (my previous post about RAMP).1 There were versions of WordPress prior to 3.1 that had a bug that caused pages and some custom post types to have non-unique GUID values. This…
