Running and Debugging WordPress 2.6 Beta

July 2nd • 1 Comment • Under: WordPress • Tags: WordPress

I am using WordPress 2.6 (currently beta 2) now, and here are the issues/problems discovered so far: (1) PHP Speedy WP doesn’t work any more because of the changes in WP_scripts class. Read more »

Fixing «PostPost» and «Ozh’ Absolute Comments» Plugins

June 22nd • No Comments • Under: WordPress • Tags: plugins, WordPress

I use a modified version of the simple PostPost plugin created by Douglas Karr to display one sentence affiliate advertising in my RSS feed for entries that contain more than 700 letters.

Today I installed the very useful Ozh’ Absolute Comments plugin that makes the process of replying to comments a lot easier. However, when trying out the inline (and ajaxy) comment reply feature within the ‘Manage Comments’ section of WordPress admin for the first time, I got the following error message: Read more »

Baltic Amber 1.32 — removed .youare section from your WordPress Dashboard

May 12th • 6 Comments • Under: Sidenotes, WordPress • Tags: plugin, WordPress

Version 1.31 1.32 applies display:none; to .youare <div> on the dashboard. The reasoning behind this move is the extensive user testing I conducted on myself — I had never touched that ‘Change Theme’ button since updating to 2.5., and the version of WordPress is visible in the footer of every administration section.

However, if you want to keep it, simply use Baltic Amber Themes & Schemes 1.3. If you would like to see this as an option (rather than by default), please leave a comment.

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 • 5 Comments • 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 »