WordPress 2.9 has been released – time to upgrade! There are some pretty nice new features in this release. I’m glad to be able to retire a few plugins now that the post thumbnail feature is built in and we’re going to wear out the comment meta feature in our custom implementations. I’ve got a…
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The Crowd Favorite crew received netbooks at our holiday party last night. They were well received. I’m pleased with how the metal logo piece came out.
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We’ve restructured WordPress HelpCenter a little bit, and it is now fully run by Crowd Favorite and staffed by Crowd Favorite developers. This change is due to how the business has evolved as it’s grown, and what we believe will allow it to flourish going forward. We have a: new phone number1: (303) 395-1346 and…
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We’ve launched an affiliate program and a public knowledge base at WordPress HelpCenter (WPHC), two things that I’m very excited about. We’re getting closer and closer to my overall vision for the service. Affiliate Program The affiliate program is really core to how we want the HelpCenter to work (note: anyone can join the affiliate…
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The WordPress HelpCenter is hiring another web developer. Due to the nature of the work we do at the HelpCenter, we’re looking for someone with a broad range of PHP, XHTML and CSS experience and in particular someone with outstanding communication skills. This will be a full time position with benefits, and we are open…
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The following is a cautionary tale – please learn from it. Last Friday was a fun day. In late morning a router upstream from our server went out, when it was restored all of our sites came back online except the server we used for the Crowd Favorite web site and email relay. The hard…
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The Crowd Favorite server (web site and email) are currently down. Email should be restored within a few hours, the web site will be back ASAP – no ETA yet. Happy Friday everyone!
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I’ve published another Q&A on the Carrington Framework on the Carrington web site. This one covers some additional questions I saw popping up in the forums and comments. It’s great to see folks being able to get into Carrington a little more of late, I guess the additional documentation has been helpful. Also, remember to…
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The Carrington CMS theme framework for WordPress has been updated to version 2.5. I’ve also released updated versions of all of our Carrington themes with the latest core, new documentation, and other misc. enhancements and bug fixes: Carrington Blog 2.2 Carrington Text 1.3 Carrington Mobile 1.1 Carrington JAM 1.3 WordPress developers, be sure to check…
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Crowd Favorite is hiring a full time QA Engineer/Jr. Developer. This is a new position at Crowd Favorite, and we’re looking for a sharp self-starter with great communication and organization skills to work with us. Responsibilities will focus on creating QA plans and managing the QA process for our projects, and will also include work…
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I’m pleased to announce that version 1.1 of Analytics360°, a great WordPress plugin from MailChimp that provides awesome Google and MailChimp analytics data and visualizations in your WordPress admin, is now available. Download it here This release addresses a handful of issues that were reported in version 1.0, and has been well received in testing…
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I’ve published more documentation on Carrington, the CMS theme framework for WordPress we created and use at Crowd Favorite. These docs cover the three contexts used in Carrington, and examples of how you may want to use them: The General Context The Post Context The Comment Context I’m working on a follow-up to the Carrington…
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I received some feedback on one of our Carrington themes recently, letting me know that while we were declaring the DOCTYPE of the theme as XHTML 1.0 Transitional, it would be simple to go to XHTML 1.1 Strict based on the markup in the theme. This didn’t surprise me, we always code to pretty strict…
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I’m very pleased to announce that Twitter Tools 2.0 is now available! Twitter Tools is a WordPress plugin that creates a complete, two-way integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. Version 2.0 of Twitter Tools makes the plugin extensible in the same way WordPress itself is. I’ve added hooks and filters that allow…
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MailChimp has released a great new WordPress plugin: Analytics360°. This plugin creates a reporting dashboard for your MailChimp and Google Analytics right within your WordPress admin interface. Take a look at the post about the plugin on MailChimp’s blog, which includes a very cool video. It’s pretty slick, and useful – though I may be…