Archive For October, 2008

I’ll be at the WordPress meetup at Latinoware tomorrow (Saturday) at 18:00. I’m speaking earlier in the day ta 13:00. Been around the conference today and been really impressed with the breadth of subjects covered and the number of attendees. Confused about the logo though. (Is South America tucked into Africa?) Se você fala Português passar esta sobre a sua audiência.

Happy Halloween to everyone! At this All Hallows Eve, I would like to talk about Scary WordPress Moments. Since I have been working with WordPress for some time, I have had quite a few scary moments with WordPress. One stands out in recent memory.

WordPress Pumpkin by Eric Martin Displayed with permission

Let me start by saying that I am a huge proponent of backing up my blog. I put together the original WP-DB-Backup which has been enhanced and fixed through the years and is a fantastic plugin. I use it religiously combined with a couple of tricks I picked up from…

(cross-posted to the Carrington web site)

Version 1.2 of Carrington Blog is now available for download.

It’s been great seeing developers picking up the Carrington theme framework and using it. We wanted to get these fixes and features out ASAP as a result.

This version has a couple of changes – both bug fixes and new features:

Added support for meta-{key}.php content templates (previously supported only meta-{key}-{value}.php templates) as requested.
Added a field for entering the About text that is shown in the sidebar. If this is present, the /about page content is not used. The content of this field is passed through regular…

Eric Martin carved a WordPress pumpkin. Happy Halloween everybody.

New Plugins

MagpieRSS Hotfix for Enclosures

This hotfix adds support for RSS enclosures to MagpieRSS, the RSS feed parser behind the fetch_rss() function in WordPress.

Tylr Slidr

This is a WordPress plugin that makes the process of adding a Flickr slideshow to your site much easier.

Upload RapidShare

Upload your file to Rapidshare

IE Warning

Shows nice and simple splash to your visitors with Internet Explorer

WP Unique Article Header Image

Allows you to add/associate unique header image with each single post/page.So you can spice your blog to have a unique header image per post/page.

LinkShare Link Locator (L3) Description

LinkShare Link Lookup (L3) is designed to make it easy for…

Nicecoder has released a plugin for IndexU Deluxe v1.1 to integrate the vBulletin user database.

By using this plugin users of vBulletin can log into IndexU with their vBulletin login.

The vBulletin and IndexU scripts must reside on the same domain.

Attached is the latest version of the plugin that will be included with IndexU Deluxe v1.2. This plugin will work with IndexU Deluxe v1.1, ……..

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Attached Files

idx_to_vb37.zip (3.4 KB)

Inspired by the new and sublimely useful WP Roadmap, here is a high-level diagram of WordPress in three sizes: 512, 1024, 2048. Made with OmniGraffle Professional.

This past week we have adopted three new management positions within the phpBB Teams that we hope will better prepare us for the future. These management positions will run the project along side the Team Leaders with equal power. The Team Leader’s group has been renamed to the Management Team to better describe these people since the new positions won’t lead any teams. These positions are Business Manager, Operations Manager and Website Manager.The Business Manager will oversee all business related aspects of phpBB. His first task will be to found a non-profit organization for phpBB to give us more power…

Trick-or-treat!

In celebration of Halloween…
Buy 2 skins and get 2 Free!

Offer is valid until the end of Sunday.

How to redeem your 2 free skins?
After you purchase two skins simply open a support ticket and request your 2 free skins

First thanks to zoints for having meebo as one of there blocks and thanks to stangger5 for making the profile blocks for the mp3 player and for youtube. I did use his as a guide but the rest is all me.

What does this mod do? it adds a free chating system to your profile right side block. It can be added any where as a block in the MEMBERINFO template of your skin. Its free to use and is an alt ……..

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Attached Files

Meebo_right_profile_block.zip (2.5 KB)

I finally got around to setting up the blog feed. I just tested it and it works!!

you can now add your rss blog feed in every post. Just edit your details and add your link in the correct profile field.. It should be near the bottom.

:takeabow:

Enjoy

ps… this is the edits I used
3.6 Working Recent Blog Mod ( Uses Carp Free ) – vBulletin.org Forum
If you wanted to add something like it to your site.

This adds a new box on FORUMHOME which shows user’s anniversary (registration on forum)

So if any user has registered at least 1 year ago on the actual date, he will show up in that list

Thanks to Delphinchen and Boothby (on vbGO) for inspiration and SQL-Hint on this!

Enjoy ……..

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Attached Images

vb_anniversary.jpg (9.0 KB)

Attached Files

product-anniversary.xml (2.7 KB)

Contender

Contender is a three column, fixed width, adsense ready theme.

NeeWee

Fixed width, three column, gravatar and widget ready theme.

Pink Orchid

A clean simple SEO optimized three column template in soft pink colors. The theme has two widget ready sidebars, gravatar support and is ad ready. The theme features a bio box that can be edited independently of the side bars and is unaffected by the use of widgets.

Grey Matter

Grey Matter is an two column, gravatar & widget ready, free and easy to use WordPress theme.

WordPress for LinkedIn.: The WordPress Publisher Blog reports that the WordPress application is available for LinkedIn. Once this app is added and setup, your LinkedIn network will be alerted when you post something to your WordPress.com or self hosted WordPress.org blogs. To add the WordPress App to your LinkedIn account, visit the LinkedIn Application Directory. Select the WordPress App, enter your blog’s URL, and choose to display either all of your blog posts or just those tagged with “LinkedIn.” Save, and you’re all set. Wired, ZDNet and others have writeups on the new Application platform from LinkedIn.

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