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…
If this site seems to load a little faster today it’s because it is now hosted at CloudMoxie, a hosting company that Crowd Favorite (my company) is a partner in. We’ve been rolling out our hosting services slowly, mainly for our clients at Crowd Favorite, but we’re at a point now where we’re willing to…
Congratulations to Michael Kuhlmann on the release of the Hope child theme for Carrington Business. This commercial WordPress theme is a little different than most: By purchasing the Hope child theme for the Carrington Business theme framework, you’re actively helping communities in developing countries by supplying them with the basic necessities we take for granted…
We’ve updated Carrington Core, the base of our theme platform, to version 3.1. This adds a number of useful WordPress 3.1 compatibility features, including support for post formats, custom post type archives, and misc. cleanup and updates.
The upcoming release of WordPress 3.1 is introducing a feature to make it easier to link to posts and pages within your WordPress install. This is going to be useful for a number of folks, however it has a few limitations: The links are hard-coded within the post/page content. If you re-organize your site or…
I released a really simple little plugin. All it does is allow you to mark content that should only display until a certain date/time, then hides it after that date/time. So it doesn’t do much, but what it does is pretty useful. The download an more information for the Expiring Content Shortcode plugin is with…
When people ask me what we do at Crowd Favorite, I tell them “we build cool stuff on the web”. One of the latest examples of this is FantasyGrinder: an application and web service that creates fun, meaningful game recaps from weekly fantasy sports matchups. The system is pretty sophisticated. It’s a web application that…
Congratulations to our friends at UpThemes for shipping GarageBand, a great Band theme that includes Carrington Build (developer version). I have it on good authority that we may see more Carrington Build enabled themes from UpThemes in the future, with even tighter integrations.
RedMonk has launched their first product: RedMonk Analytics. The basic premise is to use the data inherent in the activity on the RedMonk web properties to expose interesting trends. Read all about it in Steve’s blog post. As Steve says, this is a project that is only going to get more interesting with time. One…
We’ve updated the Carrington Business theme demo so that you can access the menus and theme settings in the admin interface along with the post and page creation/editing access that was already available. Some folks were requesting to see how the menus were integrated, etc. so we’ve made those items available. Check out the demo…
I’ve been interviewed on the Page.ly blog to kick off their WP Heavy Hitters feature. In the interview I discuss a little bit about how my businesses started, how they work and some lessons learned along the way. My thanks to Sally for putting together some good initial and follow-up questions; I hope it’s of…
Crowd Favorite is hiring and we now have two positions available. We’re looking for a good front-end developer (WordPress theme experience a plus) as well as an experienced developer to join our team in downtown Denver. We’ve got a great team, get to build interesting things and have a casual, collaborative working environment – join…
It’s that time of year to promote your SxSW panels. I’m slated for two WordPress panels I’d like you to consider voting for. Beyond Blogging: WordPress is a CMS – much of the work that we do at Crowd Favorite is creating advanced CMS websites with WordPress. It’s what’s driven us to create the Carrington…
Version 2.4 of my Twitter Tools plugin for WordPress is now available. Twitter Tools creates a full two-way integration between your WordPress site and Twitter. You can send your posts to Twitter, archive your tweets and create posts from them, and more. This version has the following changes and is a must upgrade due to…
I’ve been collecting questions for the last few days for an O’Grady-style Q&A on Carrington Build. Is Carrington Build a plugin or a theme? Carrington Build isn’t a traditional WordPress product (a single theme or plugin). It is probably best thought of as the foundation or feature of a theme (for example, a component of…
The reaction to yesterday’s launch of Carrington Build has been overwhelming. We knew we had created something we were proud of, but it’s extremely gratifying to see so many other people excited about it as well. My post yesterday was pretty long and really only scratched the surface. For example, I didn’t go into details…