Archive For February, 2010

Hello everyone,We are pleased to announce the release of phpBB “Run bugs, run! Bertie is coming!” 3.0.7. This new version is a maintenance release fixing a number of a bugs as well as improving on usability and performance. We have entirely overhauled the Feed feature, fixing a lot of bugs and odd behaviours. Some problems with the automated updater have been solved, so if you are still on 3.0.5 this update should work a lot better for you.We urge you to update your installation as soon as possible. The bugs fixed in phpBB 3.0.7 ensure the smooth operation of your…

DarkMood

The DarkMood Theme is a free dark greenish theme 980px wide with two Sidebars and an Option Page to populate the Footer.

Expressivo

Expressivo is a three-column theme with two righthand sidebars – going to a single sidebar on single posts and pages. With Cufon embedded fonts for post titles, threaded and paged comments – you can also replace the header completely with your own image.

Bright Light

Bright Light is a two columns, fluid width WordPress theme with support for custom top navigation. It also has built-in support for social icons.

5 Grunge Wordpress Themes

Themes are a little bit dark,…

By now you have surely read the news of the release of BudyPress 1.2 (which now will work with single WordPress.org blogs, previously limited to WordPress MU) and this dev blog announcement from Jane last evening about another plugin Andy wrote that lets you use your present theme with BuddyPress.

I have always been of the opinion that this blog, its content, its collection of authors and most of all, its community of readers, is a prime candidate for BuddyPress. Having a common signup between comments, ratings, forums and blog posts would be a fantastic feature. This news is the first…

Just checking the ol’ girl out.

Back in April of last year, Matt posted here on the dev blog about the release of BuddyPress 1.0, a plugin that adds a social networking layer to an installation of WordPress MU. Many people were excited about the idea, but were unable to experiment with BuddyPress because they ran single installations of WordPress rather than the multi-site WordPress MU. To those people, good news! A little over a week ago Andy Peatling, founder and lead developer of BuddyPress, announced the release of BuddyPress 1.2, which can be used on single installations of WordPress. Congratulations, BuddyPress! And congratulations to all…

Improvisation is the name of the game, and we tend to do a lot of it with plugins and themes. In that process we tend to modify functions by adding more variables to incorporate changes in them. However, unlike most of the other languages, PHP allows users to set default values for variables passed to a method too.

As a developer when you start out coding, you have a certain number of things a function will require in order for it to work, some may be optional too, so you set out to create a method signature similar to the one…

New Plugins

Flickr Digest

A simple to use WordPress plugin based on Flickr API which digests all your photos posted in last X days in a single post periodically.

Feed Thumbnails

This plugin simply adds your post thumbnails to your RSS feed as enclosures. Nothing else to it.

Simple Twitter Connect

Simple Twitter Connect makes it easy to integrate your site with Twitter, in a wholly modular way.

Updated Plugins

Hikari Email & URL Obfuscator

Hikari Email & URL Obfuscator plugin obfuscates emails and URL links, to hide them from spam harvesters and Search Endigne crawlers. It uses ROT13 or cc8b to encode each link while PHP…

Dear Wetalk-erers,

As of several hours ago rumours have been going wild on our live chat channel. Clamouring for explicit forums where the displaying of, dare I say it, boobies, is not only allowed, but actively encouraged!

There are (as always) a few rules and regulations, but you’ll find them more than acceptible. More to be found at http://wetalkdirty.net/.

This magical place is only available to our premium members, that means that you have at least 100 posts or have donated towards our network. In addition you, without exception, must be 16 years or older to access the wetalkboobs website.…

I was the guest tonight on the WordPress Community Podcast, hosted by Joost de Valk and Frederick Townes. We talked about upcoming features in WordPress 3.0, my past work as a WordPress core developer, my WordPress plugins, microformats, and a smattering of other topics. My interview should be up later tonight.

Joost and Frederick do a great job with the interviews, so if you haven’t already, you should subscribe to the WordPress Community Podcast and give it a listen!

UPDATE 9:30 p.m. EST: The show notes are up now!

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WordPress Packages?
Easy Gravatars with Google Analytics…

Joost and Frederick talk to Dougal Campbell, one of the original WordPress developers. They discuss various topics: from differences between WordPress and Drupal, and how they handle automatic testing and custom data types (for which WordPress has the upcoming custom post types and the pods plugin), to donations (or lack thereof) for plugins. They go in-depth about microformats and RDFa and how you could use the custom field functionality in WordPress (which Dougal wrote) to make use of those. Last but not least, WordPress 3 comes around the corner a couple of times, discussing all the cool new features in…

DavidIQ will now be the permanent leader of the Modifications Team. I, wGEric, led the team temporarily during the transition period after evil

A Report from the 3.0 Development Cycle
Menus

There’s been a flurry of blog posts about the integration of the WooThemes Custom Navigation into WordPress core, so I thought it was time we posted the official word. For 3.0, the main user-facing feature we wanted to include was a better site menu management system. Currently, dealing with menus is clunky, using Page IDs or in some cases categories, if a theme uses categories instead of pages for the menu. We wanted a menu system that had the drag and drop ease of the widget management screen, could combine Pages, Categories,…

Presenter

Presenter is a child theme for the Hybrid theme framework. Presenter gives you a quick way to show your portfolio or services with few elements and easy customization from the back-end.

Neat Theme

Two column, gravatar ready theme with a featured section and theme options. Widget Ready, with four position widget.

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All major components are user changeable, be that colors, sizes or layouts.The theme works perfectly out of the box, or you can change things around to suit your needs via the extremely easy to use huge admin control panel with its built in admin area inline previews. The theme…

Thunderbird in 2010 by project lead David Ascher, who I met with a few days ago. I’m sticking with Thunderbird for this year, just hoping for some kick-butt Gravatar integration.

vBadvanced Links Directory v4.0.0 Beta 2 for vBulletin v4.0 has been released and is now available in the Members’ Area here for current license holders. This is a BETA release, so if you are not fully comfortable with backing up and restoring your forums database, we recommend waiting until vBadvanced Links Directory 4.0.0 RC1 is released before you upgrade.

v4.0.0 Beta 2 corrects all currently known issues from Beta 1, as well as some significant style changes to mesh better with vBulletin 4.

Important Notes:This is beta software! Before upgrading, be sure to backup your database so you can revert to…