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.
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…
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…
I’ve written up 1500 words on what the Carrington CMS theme framework for WordPress is and isn’t. It’s the first of a few different overview and tutorial articles on Carrington that we hope to release in the near future.
Hopefully this and the follow-up articles will help folks understand the what, why and benefits of Carrington.
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…
Shawn (one of our talented developers at Crowd Favorite) has created some great tools for WordPress developers that use BBEdit and TextMate. The TextMate bundle has been out for a little while, but he now has a functional port of it to a BBEdit clipping set as well.1 The TextMate Bundle provides nice, handy auto-complete…
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…
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…
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…
There has been a lot of discussion about WordPress and the GPL lately. People are discussing/complaining about what you can and can’t do due to the license. It’s all a bit baffling to me. Whether you like the GPL or not, the license is as much a part of WordPress as PHP and MySQL. WordPress…
BIG FAT DISCLAIMER: I am not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV. I have, however, been working in the Open Source consulting and development space for a number of years and think this is an important issue for all Open Source consultants to consider. Please consult your own lawyer, don’t blame me,…
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…
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…
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…
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…