Archive For July, 2010

Use 2010 Weaver to tweak almost everything with this Twenty Ten child theme, or pick one of many included predefined example themes. With minimal effort, you can easily customize: colors, fonts, the header, the footer, sidebars, background colors, or add your own custom CSS or javascript definitions.

RedBel is a simple and stylish fixed width WordPress theme.

Voidy is the perfect theme for great authors. It is clean, clear and beautiful. It is minimalistic two-columns theme with the widgets all arranged in the right sidebar. Voidy was designed to make your content stand out and make…

Hey everyone,It has been quite sometime since the last blog post about SMF development was made. Although I'm not the best blogger in the dev team, I thought I would say a "Hi…

In an attempt to react to an ever-evolving industry, we are currently in the process of taking our vB skin company into a multi-board skin company. As we all know, vBulletin has gone downhill a bit lately. It has severly affected our business. We are holding out hope that things will turn around with 4.1, but it is just that – hope. If vB 4.1 does not turn out to be what we are all hoping for, we would like to have something that will keep the beat going.

In the midst of these changes, we’ve made the decision

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WordPress 3.0.1 has been officially released. This release fixes 55 minor issues, including a frequently reported export error and an incompatibility with PHP 5.0.5.

The upgrade should be available for most of you from your Dashboard. If you don’t see the announcement, go to Dashboard/Updates. If you encounter any trouble with the automated updater, try deactivating your plugins before reinitiating the update. As is accustomed with Murphy and his fabled law, a manual upgrade many be required, but it shouldn’t take too long.

If you need help, please submit your request to the WordPress Support Forums.

After nearly 11 million downloads of WordPress 3.0 in just 42 days, we’re releasing WordPress 3.0.1. The requisite haiku:

Three dot oh dot one
Bug fixes to make you smile
Update your WordPress

This maintenance release addresses about 50 minor issues. The testing many of you contributed prior to the release of 3.0 helped make it one of the best and most stable releases we’ve had.

Download 3.0.1 or update automatically from the Dashboard > Updates menu in your site’s admin area.

Note: If you downloaded 3.0.1 in the first 20 minutes of release (before 2200 UTC), you’ll want to…

While I mentioned here that 3.8.6 would be the last 3 series release, we are currently working on 3.8.7

It will be a small release to fix some small issues in 3.8.6 – I don’t have an ETA as yet.
We anticipate 3.8.7 will be the last 3 series release.

Best,
Adrian

New plugins

FourSquare Integration for WordPress allows you to view your last checkins either as a list or on Google Maps on Pages and Posts.

DynamicWP Featured Post is a free WordPress jQuery plugin that will list your featured post based on the post tag and displayed as a widget. The post will cycled automatically.

DukaPress can be used to build online shops quickly and easily. It is built to be both simple and elegant yet powerful and scalable.

Add image_src Meta Tag ensures your content has a relevant thumbnail when shared on social sites, by adding an image_src meta…

There’s a new Kindle out, which I just ordered. I love the Kindle — even more than the iPhone 4. On my iPhone I do the same stuff I do on my computer, just mobile. The Kindle helps me to read and my life has been more enhanced by books than any other medium I’ve experienced. I’ve bought probably 10 since they came out for me, friends, and family, and sold 100+ to other people. (Before the Kindle came out I randomly got a demo of it from Jeff Bezos at the EG Conference, and it was love at first…

vBulletin.com is now powered by vB 4.0.6

Our intentions are to collect feedback on the product for the coming week, and we would like to be able to release it to you early next week.

If you encounter any bugs with the product, please post them in the tracker.
If you are a licensed customer, we would welcome any feedback you have on it here.

4.0.6 includes fixes for the following list of bugs:
List of bugs

I might add – we are aware of an issue where there are multiple pages of visitor messages and it causing a sidebar

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I don’t usually make public feature requests and I know our friends at Twitter are dealing with crazy scaling issues but I would like to register one simple request: the option for centered backgrounds. Background: Twitter lets you upload a background image, but it’s always left-aligned which means unless its tiling interacts awkwardly with the main centered window. But with a single line of CSS, background-position: center, you could use the width of Twitter’s content window (763px) to create something beautiful and exciting that dovetailed perfectly with the main content area. If you’re feeling crazy afterward, allow a different background…

There are two ways to install plugins in WordPress 3.0. You can either search for and install plugins via Plugins/Add New in your admin panel, or search for and download plugins from the plugin directory, then upload them to /wp-content/plugins/. Now, thanks to Mark Jaquith, there’s a new way to install plugins.

The new plugin installer tool allows users to easily install plugins via a web-based interface outside of WordPress, with no FTP knowledge or tedious admin panel searching required. The new tool will be officially rolled into the plugin directory during WordPress’ impending site-wide redesign. For now, plugin developers…

Version 1.3.2 of WordPress for Android was released to Android Market this morning. This release contains many bug fixes, including:

The Stats tab should work better for users with self-hosted blogs that are running the WordPress.com stats plugin.
Stabilization fixes for users running HTC Sense on Android 1.5.
Removed extra break and paragraph HTML tags that were being added when editing an existing post.

On top of the bug fixes in this release, we also squeezed in a few features including an easier sign in process as well as a small UI update including better tab icons and a nice ‘WordPress…

vBadvanced Dynamics v2.0.1 (for vB4) has been released and is now avaiable in the Members’ Area here. This new version is a maintenance release to correct several bugs and other issues including:Several IE7 display issues.
Issues with entry ratings not appearing and notifications not being sent back properly after rating an entry.
Problems with not being able to select replies using the inline moderation system if the ‘postbit_legacy’ template is used instead of the ‘postbit’ template.
Fixed an issue where rebuilding attachment thumbnails could disable thumbnails if you store attachments in the database instead of the file system.
Fixed the

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