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Design, Feedback, WordPress and the Community

1/3/2008 – 10:31 am

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…

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Fixing the WordPress Theme Reset Problem

12/9/2007 – 10:51 am

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…

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WordPress Marketplace

11/2/2007 – 8:53 am

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…

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How to Include a Daily Digest of Ma.gnolia Links in Your Feeds

4/25/2007 – 9:13 pm

I’ve had a couple of folks ask me how I include a daily digest of all of my newly added Ma.gnolia links in my RSS feed, so I thought I would provide a very quick rundown.

FeedBurner Logo FeedBurner is the foundation of the…

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Ma.gnolia Plugin 1.4 Released

3/19/2007 – 10:28 pm

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…
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WordPress Database Error

3/18/2007 – 11:49 am

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…

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The New Ma.gnolia Wordpress Plugin

3/4/2007 – 12:08 pm

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…

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Ma.gnolia & Me

2/20/2007 – 7:15 pm

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…

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Favatars, WordPress and Me

10/23/2005 – 2:20 pm

A while back, I posted about implementing Favatars on this site. While I ran into many small issues, I was relatively happy with the feature. Since my upgrade to WP 1.5, I have wanted to re-implement the functionality without hacking…

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Return of the Photo Gallery

10/22/2005 – 3:34 pm

As I mentioned earlier today, I’ve wanted to (re)install a photo gallery on this site in order to post the loads of bits and bytes spewed forth by my digital camera. Plogger seems a perfect match, and having followed these simple…

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