Archive For August, 2008

vbDrupal is a fork from the Drupal CMS which integrates Drupal with the vBulletin forum software. All third party modules and themes for Drupal should also work with this version of vbDrupal.

This version of vbDrupal is based on Drupal version 5.10. It has been designed to work with vBulletin version 3.6 and 3.7. A copy of the vBulletin software is required in order to use this piece of software.

Download vbDrupal 5.10.4

This release only contains a few bugs fixes. If you are using a version older than 5.10 it is strongly encouraged to upgrade. If you are using 5.10.1…

Hi,No, not a wiki product by the phpBB Group. I am pleased to announce the addition of a wiki for syndicating code documentation and content at http://wiki.phpbb.com/.This wiki is a place where you can share your experience with the codebase of phpBB3. Anything related to code documentation, modding/styling tutorials can be added there. Please note that we currently only allow registered users to edit/add pages.What it is notThe wiki is not meant to be a general documentation of how to use phpBB3. It doesn’t describe how to register, post new topics, etc. – this can still be found within our…

Please help me to welcome Mattimus as our newest staff member here! Mattimus has been very helpful on the site and has graciously accepted my offer to become staff. I appreciate you Matt and I know others here appreciate your help as well!

Here’s a list of upcoming blogging/WordPress/tech events that I’m planning on attending:

Blog Orlando – September 27th
This event has been a bunch of fun the last two years — wouldn’t miss it. I’ll be speaking on “Advanced WordPress”
WordCamp Toronto – October 4th and 5th
Will be attending, and may be speaking too.
BarCamp Tampa Bay – October 11th and 12th
The tech/blogging community in Tampa has recently started to get more organized, and this should be a good way of meeting more of the local people.
WordCamp Charlotte – November 15th
I’ll be giving the keynote presentation at this…

Extended Categories Widget

A replacement of the category widget to allow for greater customization of the category widget.

Protected Post Password Hint

Traditionally all password protected posts contain a boiler-plate password form without any hints. Without any capability to change the string, one must provide the hint in another post, which is a bit clumsy. Not to mention, people viewing the single protected post only will be unable to see the hint at all. With this plugin protected posts are more usable.

Babel

It allows you to write your blog in multiple languages, and switch between these with a simple click on a flag.

No Href…

I have updated the logo area graphics for you / the old ones are still available.

Go here to grab the old and new graphic files
http://www.extremepixels.com/forum/s…ead.php?t=5384

It looks like there’s going to be another point-release of WordPress coming soon. WordPress version 2.6.2-beta1 was just branded in svn a short while ago. Looking over the logs, I don’t see anything major — a fix for the Textpattern importer, a bug fix that prevents an attempt to make a revision of a revision, a new ‘login_redirect’ filter, a new ‘wp_rand()’ function, and a handful of other minor bugfixes.

I’m kind of wondering if there’s something bigger that’s going to be added before release…

IP.Board 2.2.x and 2.3.x Security PatchWe have released a single-file security patch which impacts IP.Board 2.2.x and 2.3.x versions. This is a critical update. Please apply the patch as soon as possible or contact our technical support via the client area if you need assistance.IssueIt is possible to perform a remote SQL exploit and inject SQL code in an existing IPB query.Patching Your BoardIf you have downloaded your IP.Board after the time of this announcement, the patch is already included in your files. To patch an existing installation, simply download the attached file and overwrite: sources/action_public/xmlout.phphttp://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=17192

vbDrupal is a fork from the Drupal CMS which integrates Drupal with the vBulletin forum software. All third party modules and themes for Drupal should also work with this version of vbDrupal.

This version of vbDrupal is based on Drupal version 5.10. It has been designed to work with vBulletin version 3.6 and 3.7. A copy of the vBulletin software is required in order to use this piece of software.

Download vbDrupal 5.10.3

This release only contains a few bugs fixes. If you are using a version older than 5.10 it is strongly encouraged to upgrade. If you are using 5.10.1…

Well there are two links that showcase 11 and 10 fixes and hacks respectively.

Most Desired WordPress Hacks: 11 Common Requests and Fixes: Noupe lists 11 commonly requested WordPress hacks and elegant fixes for them. They include avoiding duplicate content, having category specific menus, sidebar login boxes, most wanted categories etc.

10 WordPress Hacks to make Your Life Easy: Jai lists another 10 hacks to play with. His hack tutorials include adding gravatars to comments, Twitter, image gallery, author bio etc.

Some of these are just tutorials on how features work within WordPress and how to incorporate them into existing themes while others…

Transport

It’s dark, and stylish, with a static patterned background, it’s grey with a dash of blue. It has two columns, and is widget ready.

White 2 cols

it is plain, simple, and grey and white.

Blue

Simple two column, blue theme.

Green Island

Two column, green and blue theme. This theme uses the frontpage as a summery of the blog/site. Not only can you see the latest posts, you can also see the about-page, the categories and the tags.

Captcha is broken – now what? The Guardian. I was quoted in today’s Guardian, which consistently has some of the best tech coverage around.

Any way I put together the title it was this long monstrosity, so I just removed the filler words and then some.

So, one of the WordCamp SF sessions that I was eagerly awaiting the video being available to share is Kathy Seirra’s “Kicking Ass and Creating Passionate Users”:

Kathy Seirra is one of my favorite speakers, because she makes me feel like I can kick fleshy parts you sit on too!

Finally the New Shop and Members Area are online!
I’ve been working on it straight for a few days…

So what’s new?

The Shop

First you will notice that finally you can purchase multiple licenses of the same skin or multiple products at once, since we now have a full fledge shopping cart
The vBulletin subscription members area was nice but it as lacking of many essential features…
I have added several option to each skin that should make licensing much easier for you and for me
(Branding Free, Installation, Renewal and vBAdvanced CMPS Integration)
We are now offering…

I recently got a email from a plugin developer, with regards to him having compatibility issues with one of the plugins I had developed. It turned out that both our plugins used a popular library called PclZip for adding archiving features. Due to the compatibility issue, accessing his plugin would cause a fatal PHP error saying that the PclZip class cannot be re-declared, when both our plugins were activated.

The compatibility issue arose because of two things;

A mistake on his part while checking for existence of class objects in the code.
A mistake on my part of using custom libraries, instead…