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 interwebs are abuzz with concerns about WordPress security this weekend. If you use WordPress, you should always make sure you are running to the latest version. Because of these concerns, the WordPress HelpCenter is open for special weekend hours (9am-5pm Central), and will be as responsive as possible to voice mail and email (help@wphelpcenter.com)…
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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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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’ve published a Carrington theme framework overview article (a follow up to the Q&A) on the Carrington web site. Hopefully folks will find it useful in describing some of the approaches taken in the framework, and some of the resulting benefits.
This post is part of the project: Carrington Core. View the project timeline for more context on this post.
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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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I’ve got a new version of Twitter Tools ready to go, but wanted to do a quick release candidate to get some wider testing before doing the general 2.0 release. This has some new features, including bit.ly support, option to exclude tweeting blog posts in certain categories, hashtags and the ability to customize the tweet…
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Here’s a nice little one-trick pony WordPress plugin: Drafts Dropdown. It literally just adds quick access to your drafts via a dropdown area. Click… and… There you have it. A small convenience to be sure, but a convenience nonetheless. Of note to other plugin developers, the code I created to place the tab and drawer…
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We’ve released new versions of our Carrington themes: Carrington Blog – version 2.1 Carrington Text – version 1.2 Carrington JAM (Just Add Markup) – version 1.2 Carrington Blog and Text are designed to be ready-to-use themes for any bloggers, while Carrington JAM is our theme skeleton for designers and developers to build on. These are…
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We’ve launched a new feature for the Carrington CMS theme framework, a showcase for designers and developers to show off their Carrington-based sites. We put up the first entry in the showcase (the Carrington web site – very meta) and will be adding a few more sites in the near future; but really we’re excited…
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One of the best features of WordPress is the way in which it hands off all responsibility of displaying a page to the theme. This makes WordPress an incredibly powerful and flexible platform. You can do just about anything you need to with a combination of the theme and the hooks that allow you to…
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A new beta of my Popularity Contest plugin for WordPress is available – this has some minor bug fixes and some new features and nicer handling of some edge cases. Since this version is the best known version, I have made it the default download at WordPress.org’s plugin hosting. Changes since beta 1: Added tag…
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A new release of WordPress Mobile Edition, a WordPress plugin to provide a friendly mobile interface for your WordPress powered site, is now available. The new version of WordPress Mobile Edition is really a developer release. This version adds API access so that other plugins can participate in mobile device checking and add to the…
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I’ve made some changes to my Twitter Tools plugin for WordPress – hopefully that will enable some pretty cool stuff in the future. I get a lot of requests for features/changes that are specific to someone’s needs. Since (unfortunately) I can’t build specific features for each user into the general plugin, I’ve done the next…