Super Ginormous

12.16.2009

Post Thumbnails in RSS feeds

the_post_thumbnail is one of my favorite addi­tions to Word­Press 2.9, but I recently ran into a prob­lem… the images I had set as my post thumb­nails weren’t being included in my RSS feed. Assum­ing you’ve already added sup­port for thumb­nails to your theme, you should be able to add this snip­pet to your theme’s functions.php file to dis­play … Read the rest of this item

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11.09.2009

Wordcamp Atlanta

Details: Site design and logo for Word­camp Atlanta. Design imple­mented by Bran­don Sheats. My apolo­gies if the link isn’t active just yet. I was a lit­tle quick on the trig­ger to post this as the site is not live yet, but should be very soon. Since the cat’s already out of the bag, I’ll leave this up. Make … Read the rest of this item

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12.10.2008

WordPress 2.7 Comments — Style Starter #2

In case you missed the first post related to Word­Press 2.7 com­ments, please check it out. This is the sec­ond set of Word­Press 2.7 Com­ment style starters. (Here’s Style Starter #1.)

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WordPress 2.7 Comments — Style Starter #1

Word­Press 2.7 Com­ment Style Starters: Word­Press 2.7 Com­ment Style Starter #1 Word­Press 2.7 Com­ment Style Starter #2 Styl­iz­ing Threaded/Nested Com­ments in Word­Press 2.7 In case you missed the first post related to Word­Press 2.7 com­ments, please check it out. As promised here’s some starter CSS for styl­iz­ing com­ments in your Word­Press 2.7-compatible theme. I hope to release … Read the rest of this item

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12.03.2008

Stylizing Threaded/Nested Comments in WordPress 2.7

Word­Press 2.7 Com­ment Style Starters: Word­Press 2.7 Com­ment Style Starter #1 Word­Press 2.7 Com­ment Style Starter #2 One of the fea­tures I love in Word­Press 2.7 is the abil­ity to have threaded (nested) com­ments up to 10 lev­els deep. While view­ing com­ments on this — or any Word­Press 2.7-powered — site, you’ll notice a Reply but­ton (assum­ing … Read the rest of this item

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09.30.2008

Theme Updates

The Word­Press com­mu­nity gives much of itself to users who don’t always give back. I cre­ated Effer­cio Blue and Nanideska last year, but as of today both they are being released under GPL. If you down­loaded them prior to today, the old Cre­ative Com­mons license still applies. Effer­cio Blue — A two-column theme for Word­Press. Sup­port Word­Press tags, dynamic side­bar and wid­gets, … Read the rest of this item

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07.22.2008

WordPress for iPhone

I’m typ­ing this from the Word­Press for iPhone app (http://iphone.wordpress.net). When I first heard about this app, I was excited. As good as some of the plu­g­ins are to make the WP admin more “iPhriendly”, they’re far from per­fect. I think this app has a lot of poten­tial, but it’s far from ideal.

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03.18.2008

WordPress 2.5 Sneak Peek

Word­Press 2.5 Sneak Peek. I went ahead and upgraded to Release Can­di­date 1, just to test it out. So far, so good. It’s still in devel­op­ment, so be care­ful before you upgrade.

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01.10.2008

50000+ Spam Messages Killed and Counting

Since installing Aksimet, it’s blocked 50,222 spam mes­sages from appear­ing on my site. That’s a lot of crap I didn’t have to deal with. Thank you Akismet. (I wish I could deter­mine exactly when I started using the plu­gin… but I am not sure where to find that infor­ma­tion…) If you’re blog­ging with Word­Press, enable the Akismet plu­gin right now.

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12.30.2007

WordPress 2.3.2

Word­Press 2.3.2 is now avail­able. It “is an urgent secu­rity release that fixes a bug that can be used to expose your draft posts.” I just upgraded with­out any prob­lems. More info on what’s new in 2.3.2 can be found here.

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