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…
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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…
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Over the last few years I’ve loved building a team and creating great things for our clients, but I’ve missed building products. A little more than a year ago, we started work on a system that I’ve had in the back of my mind for (quite literally) years. This work has resulted our first commercial…
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We’ve been using this for a while, I totally dropped the ball on getting the release out the door. Sorry about that, use in good health.
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 that my WordPress HelpCenter team is ready to grow again and we’re looking for a top-notch WordPress developer to join our team. We’re looking for someone with a broad range of WordPress and web development (PHP, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript) experience, comfortable working in a standard web hosting environment, and in particular someone…
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I’ve been keeping an eye on what folks are saying about their WordPress 3.0 upgrade experiences and it appears that most folks are finding the upgrade to be a pretty smooth sailing experience. Kudos to everyone who contributed to 3.0, this is not a small accomplishment (especially considering the fundamental changes in 3.0). If you…
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I didn’t post many details in my previous update, and I’d like to visit some of them now. At the time that post was written, it looked like the user experience for Twitter Tools was going to look something like this: Download, install and activate Twitter Tools. Click a link to twitter.com where you would…
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I’ve finished researching the changes needed to integrate OAuth into Twitter Tools. The code changes are pretty straightforward and there is plenty of prior art and examples out there to reference. The technical implementation isn’t a problem. My concern is with the user experience of the initial install and set-up of the plugin. This would…
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This sort of thing frustrates me to no end: Ms. Bates, your carefully chosen words say volumes. Not to confuse people with the facts, but not only does Twitter Tools give you fine grain control over your decision to send (or not send) each post to Twitter, it even has a feature that prevents posts…
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Looks like the data provider for Game Tonight is having a bad day and serving me empty data streams. This was working fine yesterday, so hopefully this is a momentary blip and we’ll be back up tomorrow. If not, I’ll look into an alternate data provider. Thanks for your patience. UPDATE: I believe these are…
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WordPress 3.0 will introduce a simple programatic way for developers to create custom post types. I’ve seen people talking at length about this feature, but most discussion focuses on how you can have a custom display for certain content, support custom URL structures or manage content differently. These things aren’t new – they are all…
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We’ve released a new WordPress plugin to help reduce the server load that can occasionally result from a large number of 404 requests on a WordPress-powered site. I wrote about this issue in some detail previously. This plugin gives you the ability to set a collection of file extensions that you do not want WordPress…
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I’ve updated my Twitter Tools plugin to version 2.3. This version has several security enhancements (thanks Mark Jaquith) as well as a change that may help some folks that have been seeing doubled digest posts. I recommend upgrading ASAP. The Twitter Tools plugin creates a full integration between your WordPress site and your Twitter account.…
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One of the things I love about WordPress HelpCenter is the way we are able to add offerings based on customer demand. Our latest addition is a formalization of a collection of support and maintenance packages so that we can provide pro-active support for our customers. With these packages, we are not only responding to…
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I’ve added a few more metro areas that were requested for GameTonight: Chicago Cincinnati (also available at /cincy) Los Angeles (also available at /la) Washington DC (also available at /dc) I hadn’t added Chicago initially because the venues for the various teams are not as close to each other as they are in Denver, Minneapolis,…