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By now you have no doubt noticed that this very site looks different. As I have hinted on Twitter on numerous occasions, I’ve planned a redesign for quite some time. This is it, and it marks the start of a more organized site when it comes to updates and content.
Since you’ve asked, this is the what’s and the why’s of this particular redesign, in FAQ form. Continued →
A few of you have asked me of Twitter regarding my previous theme here. It was a child theme for Notes Blog, and will be either merged with the theme or released as a free child theme later on.
Here’s a quick thought that hit me while I was swearing over how unstable Poedit can be. The idea is to get more and better localization of themes in particular, but plugins too, by putting the localization work within WordPress admin. What we need is a plugin that in fact lets you do your localization when logged in. Ideally this plugin would then store any localization files in a directory so that others could get to them easy enough. Better yet, make it a part of the WordPress core and urge people to translate when translations are missing!
Why? It would definitely mean an increase in localizations being made by users, and hence further add to the international WordPress ecosystem. Not everyone wants their sites in English after all.
The lack of localization in themes and plugins is frustrating to a lot of us. We should do better.
Update! Interesting response, read on please. Continued →
Just now I’ve rolled out a new version of TDH.me, still using WordPress of course. I’ll tell you all about it tomorrow, as well as fine-tune some things. I hope you’ll like it!
Every now and then I do a bit of freelance writing. I try to keep it down to 1-2 articles per month, so that I can focus on books and projects, but this Summer I intend to spread myself all over the place. Which is to say you’ll find my words on other blogs, in magazines, and in ebooks as well.
The first one I’d like to tell you about is my article about WordPress themes in Web Designer issue 184. You might want to check out the preview post on the magazine’s site.
The article spreads over 9 pages and looks pretty good I’d say. Continued →
One thing that my weekend using only my iPad reminded me of is how lacking the blogging apps are. Sure, the official WordPress app is starting to be useful and my newfound favorite Blogsy is just lovely. But both are behind, and so are desktop apps. I have yet to find an app, mobile or not, that lets me post to custom post types. As far as I know no apps support custom taxonomies, and they’ve been around for some time. Post formats are relatively new but a strong feature for blogging on the go, but again no app support.
This is a shame. As mobile devices in particular improve, I’d like to be able to update using them. This is only truly possible if I stay away from custom taxonomies, custom post types, and post formats. Or, in other words, if I stick to a pretty basic site built the way we did it before these CMS-like features came along. Continued →
The forum software turned WordPress plugin, bbPress, is finally out in beta 1. Read the release notes before you even consider running this one live though, there are some stuff that might be hard on your server.
This is a nice surprise. The first beta for WordPress 3.2 is out, try it out using the Beta Testers plugin, and by all means read the announcement post. As always, bete software is full of bugs and not suitable for a live site, which is obviously why I’ll move TDH.me to it soon.
In the WordPress Dashboard, which is the summary page that greets you every time you log in to your WordPress admin area, you have a bunch of boxes. These are widgets, you can move them around and even hide them using the Screen Options tab in the top right, which is good.
One of the default Dashboard widgets is the Other WordPress News box that pulls updates from various sites online and present links to them. It is a good idea, and a great complement to the official WordPress news feed also available.
Unfortunately, the Other WordPress News box is flawed. There is no selection here whatsoever which means that some sites overflow the box, as well as its source being Planet WordPress. Overall that’s OK, the real problem is when non-WordPress related stuff shows up. Like the top link in the picture here, from Alex King’s blog, where he is looking for PHP developers. Continued →
If you’re interested in my thoughts on WordPress themes, in my books, or just want to stalk me plain ol’ style, then read the interview over at WP Tavern. The interview was published last week, when I was away on vacation, which is why I’ve been neglecting the comments. Sorry about that.
As request by Joakim Jardenberg for my Notes Blog theme, I think WordPress needs a content license settings. Not all of us wants to claim traditional Copyright, there are a lot of sites relying on Creative Commons for example. This should be in the core with a template tag for easy inclusion in themes, I think.
WordPress 3.1 is out, and as promised I’m releasing the Notes Blog theme. However, it’s not on wordpress.org yet because I’m a bit turned off about the time they’re taking on theme approvals right now. Until the themes that I have in the pipe are approved, I’m not submitting any more.
That means we’re looking at a public beta phase since I won’t do a sharp 1.0 release outside of wordpress.org. Get the Notes Blog theme here, and be sure to let me know what you think.
I’ve gotten a few emails about the promised Simple Pfolio and Simple Static themes for WordPress, and I’m sorry they’re not available yet. The former have been in the wordpress.org theme repository queue for the last week, and since they share a codebase I’ve waited to submit the latter until the first one is approved. Obviously I’ll post about them when they become available.
Awesome MacBook vinyl skin, I think I need a WordPress dedicated laptop with this one on it, just because.
I’m happy to see WordPress 3.1 finally hitting the ‘net. Make sure you update. A bit surprised about the Django/Reinhardt naming issue, of course someone would react to an open source software using Django when there’s already a Django out there, but hey, these things happen and no harm done. Props to the WordPress developers, this is a good one!
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