I wrote about offline blogging with Windows Live Writer some time ago, and now I realized that it’s not that fun! Alright, I have two good news. The first one’s that I received approval for my second wordpress plugin (Related External Links) to be hosted at the official WordPress Plugin Directory. I commited the first beta a few minutes ago so go ahead and vote it up: Related External...
Quick Flickr Widget: Plugin update!
Hey I got some great news about my first wordpress plugin called Quick Flickr Widget. I applied to the WordPress Plugin Directory and guess what! I got hosted! They sent me an e-mail with all the necessary links. I quickly set up a valid readme file and uploaded everything to their plugins repository under version 1.0b. The plugin appeared in the directory in about 10 minutes, but there was no...
WordPress Plugins: It’s Flickr Time!
Hi. I wrote a while ago on Twitter about starting the development of a WordPress plugin for displaying some Flickr photos in your sidebar. I finally finished coding and debugging the first part. It’s called Quick Flickr Widget. Here are some features: Easy to setup Up to 10 Flickr photos in your sidebar Fully customizable widget (editable before_widget, after_widget, before_item...
WordPress: Theme Design Tips & Tricks
Greets. If you never did a WordPress theme before, then this post is for you. As you may already know, I released my very first wordpress theme a couple of weeks ago and it’s the one you’re looking at right now (unless you’re reading this from last year’s archive). I can’t say it was very easy developing it, but I noted down some tips that would make the process...
Threaded Comments in WordPress 2.7
This was pretty quick and easy, really, you don’t even have to do much code, it’s more about styling the nested comments. First of all you have to switch them on in Settings – Discussion, then some slight theme modifications in header.php and the comments.php section. I don’t want to write about them here because it’s already written in the WordPress codex over here:...
Blog Redesigned: Hi, This is the New Me!
Done! Wohooo! That seemed to take forever but my brand new WordPress theme is now complete and polished. Apperantly this is my first ever WordPress theme done from scratch. I started sketching like a week ago in Corel PaintShop Pro X2 (btw I don’t like to do Photoshop ’cause I’ve been using PaintShop Pro for around 6 years and got pretty much used to it. Looking forward to Adobe...
Running Coltrane
The upgrade went great, spent about 10 minutes on everything. Here’s my version of a quick guide, assuming you have SSH access. Start off by disabling all your plugins through the wordpress administration panel and doing a complete backup (including database). Then load up your putty or whatever SSH client you are used to. My wordpress is running from /home/kovshenin/wordpress/ and here is...
Finally, WordPress 2.7
I’m so proud they finally did it. After the RC2 coming out I thought they’ll have problems up until January, but there they go! It’s nice to see that people are already upgrading their blogs, and as for Russia, we’ve got developers who’ve done the translation already, so I guess I’ll be running it in two or three weeks. Don’t wanna hurry though, and...
WordPress 2.7
There’s been a lot of noise after the 2.7 beta release and I really liked the First Look at WordPress 2.7 article by Weblog Tools Collection. So I’m really looking forward to upgrade. I’m currently running 2.6.3 and my WordPress keeps yelling for 2.6.5 upgrade, but I think I’ll stay to 2.6.3 cause it seems pretty stable, unlike 2.6.2 where I had some problems setting up WP...
Windows Live Writer
The Pro Web 2.0 Mashups book I wrote about earlier is going great and I finally got to the blogging chapters. Standalone blogging, yeah that was a news for me. I mean it is obvious that offline/standalone blogging is applicable to WordPress and other blogging systems, and that’s one of the main reasons why the XML-RPC protocol is supported by them, right? Well I just didn’t see the...