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Design, Feedback, WordPress and the Community

January 3, 2008

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 releases. As an avid user of WordPress and occasional plugin developer, I’ve been [...]

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Fixing the WordPress Theme Reset Problem

December 9, 2007

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 a bit of code in WP meant to protect the user from bad [...]

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WordPress Marketplace

November 2, 2007

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 and build my own themes, and will likely do so for a long time to [...]

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Ma.gnolia Plugin 1.4 Released

March 19, 2007

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 pull bookmarks from the Web Design group that have been tagged with ‘css’.
Added [...]

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WordPress Database Error

March 18, 2007

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 error:

PHP Warning: mysql_affected_rows() [<a href='function.mysql-affected-rows'>function.mysql-affected-rows</a>]: A link to the server could not be established [...]

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The New Ma.gnolia Wordpress Plugin

March 4, 2007

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 him up on it.
This plugin makes it easy to output a list of your [...]

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Ma.gnolia & Me

February 20, 2007

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 of seeing my name show up in the feed for his site, [...]

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The Rebirth of the End of the World

February 6, 2006

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. So, I present a revitalized site, ready to display its much improved strength, reliability [...]

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Poker Plugins

September 29, 2004

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

Card Converter
CardSuits
Pokerhand

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

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