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Design, Feedback, WordPress and the Community

WordPress 2.4 Dashboard Snippet - Small Chris Messina has posted a great entry discussing the problems with open source design, with a focus on the new administrative interface for WordPress 2.4, which is generating a lot of discussion now that it is partially implemented in the nightly…

Fixing the WordPress Theme Reset Problem

As I posted in the WordPress forums I’ve run into an odd problem - WordPress occasionally resets my theme to the default version, which is annoying to say the least. After a lot of digging, I learned that the likely culprit is…

WordPress Marketplace

Matt, the creator of WordPress, is laying the groundwork for a theme marketplace, the beginning of which he shares in his post Marketplace Idea. The idea is solid, and a step I’ve wanted to see for a while. I design…

Ma.gnolia Plugin 1.4 Released

Thanks to Rick and Emre for the excellent suggestions which prompted these improvements to the Ma.gnolia WordPress plugin:

  • Added the ability to pull bookmarks from group collections as well as those of individual people. Tags can be used with either, so you can…

WordPress Database Error

I’ve been running into problems ever since I upgraded WordPress to 2.x (not sure if it was 2.0 or 2.1) with new posts. The first time a new post was was loaded into the browser, the server kicked out this…

The New Ma.gnolia Wordpress Plugin

Barry Price, the creator of the Ma.gnolia plugin for WordPress has set its development aside and has encouraged me to adopt the project. As I use the plugin heavily on this site, and I enjoy development, I decided to take…

Ma.gnolia & Me

Rick, a great Web Developer with whom I’ve worked in the past, and now count as a friend was kind enough to write about me being a featured linker on Ma.gnolia on his blog, Walking Around. In addittion to the pleasant surprise…

The Rebirth of the End of the World

The time has come for Apocalyptic Dreaming to rise from the pitiful state that it has devolved into. Running for years with an old design atop an outdated content management system, the site had become a burden to me, its creator.…

Poker Plugins

Three plugins for WordPress that convert simple shorthand into a visual representation of the cards or hand being discussed:

I haven’t installed any of them yet, but I really like the idea!