Archive for the 'WordPress' Category

WordPress Favourites plugin

Published on March 22, 2005 in WordPress. View Comments

I came across a plugin for WordPress by Michele Finotto that allows you to highlight certain posts as "favourites".

A similar plugin was mentioned a while ago on Binary Bonsai, but was never released.

This one seems to work quite well, though. Thanks, Michele!

New Design and WordPress 1.5

Published on January 10, 2005 in WordPress. View Comments

I took the jump and upgraded to WordPress 1.5… I've been running it on a test installation for about a month or so now. Unfortunately, the upgrade didn't go perfectly, so I've had to stuff around with things. It should all be fixed now.

Along with that, there's a new design, which is based on the popular Kubrick theme, by Michael Heilemann.

A couple of notable things I've added:

  • A rotating banner across the top, featuring a couple of landscapes or pictures I've taken.
  • Random photos from my Flickr account. (More on that later.)
  • A photo gallery page that pulls the "photosets" directly from Flickr.

A couple of things didn't make it, however:

  • Nested comments. I heavily modified Kubrick to get the comments the way I wanted, and when it came to integrating that with the nested comments code, I struggled. If I'm feeling masochistic in the future I might have another go.
  • Subscribing to comments – not sure if this was used (are there even any readers out there? ;) ), but it was causing conflicts.

That's about all I can think of, for now! Comments are welcome.

UPDATE: I did forget to mention one thing. The RSS feed has changed to http://www.higgs-family.net/~jeremy/feed/. I'm working on setting up a redirect that will solve any problems with people who are subscribed already.

Shelley Powers on Wordpress 1.3

Published on November 22, 2004 in Asides and WordPress. View Comments

Shelley Powers talks about Wordpress 1.3 being just around the corner. She also mentions some of the new features, which sound great!