Baltic Amber Admin Themes & Schemes Now With a Colour Picker

May 5th • No Comments • Under: WordPress • Tags: plugin, WordPress

Latest version of Baltic Amber Themes & Schemes plugin now includes a very simple and easy to use colour picker so that you never have to search for those hexadecimal values again. In the ‘Baltic Amber Colour Settings’ page simply click on the color input field and a color wheel will pop up offering you the whole spectrum of colours to choose from.

If you are upgrading from one of the previous versions of this plugin, please don’t forget to clear your browser cache by simply refreshing the settings page.

The new feature for selecting scheme colours is based on the amazing work of Steven Wittens who built Farbtastic color picker as a plugin for jQuery javascript library.

How to Be Your Own OpenID Provider and Use Your blog’s URL for Identification

April 23rd • 1 Comment • Under: Understanding Web, WordPress • Tags: openid, Understanding Web, web, WordPress

If you have a self-hosted blog, meaning that you have the access to the files on the server, then implementing OpenID might be the greatest way to help your readers and yourself.

If you haven’t heard about the OpenID before, then in a nutshell it is your universal login name, which you can use to authenticate yourself on other blogs and websites without ever filling out those registration forms again. Read more »

Baltic Amber Themes & Schemes for Your WordPress 2.5 Administration Panel

April 20th • 84 Comments • Under: WordPress • Tags: plugin, WordPress

Update: now you have the possibility to specify your own admin colour scheme leaving the layout exactly like it is in WordPress 2.5 by default.

Matt Mullenweg recently asked if anybody has taken advantage of the new admin colour scheme switcher in WordPress 2.5, and the short answer is yes and no. There is the Fluency theme by Dean J. Robinson, which is more like a complete redesign of the administration panel.

Therefore I made the Baltic Amber Admin Themes & Schemes, which allow you:

• to create your own colour scheme by specifying only two base colours,
• to have the theme colours change randomly every time you reload the page, or at any time interval you choose,
• to use one of the administration themes which slightly alter/improve the positioning of different administration panel elements, like the main navigation, dashboard information and the plugin listing. There are eight basic colour options available or you can specify your own base colours by choosing ‘My Colour Theme’, or use the random colour generator.
• to place Tag and Category selection in two columns right after the text editor in the ‘Write Post’ panel. This option can be enabled for every admin theme, including the default ones.

Baltic Amber admin themes also improve the scanability of the Plugin Management screen by replacing the darker background colour for the activated plugins with a green ribbon on the side. Read more »

Solving the Authentication and Plugin Errors After an Upgrade to WordPress 2.5

March 31st • 11 Comments • Under: WordPress • Tags: plugins, WordPress

The upgrade process to WordPress 2.5 was as smooth as it can possibly be — simple, fast and without a single error message. However, there were a few problems that became apparent only after the upgrade. This article will explain those issues in detail and show how to solve them. Here is a short list of problems solved:

1. When trying to log-in after the upgrade, the following error message is displayed: “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”
2. Yet Another Related Posts plugin returns “Fatal error: Call to undefined function merge_filters() in … includes.php on line 73”.
3. Popularity Contest plugin returns “Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error” when reactivated.

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Hello, WordPress 2.5

March 30th • No Comments • Under: Sidenotes • Tags: WordPress

Upgraded to WordPress 2.5 RC-2 and then 5 hours later to WP 2.5 final. Had a few problems which I will explain and show how to solve in a follow up post.