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New plugin: Ad manager

Posted 1 week in | Comments (14)

It’s still under development, but the current version supports all functionality of the Ads mod from “Mystique” so you might as well use it instead of the mod

Download on WordPress.org
Support Forums (post bug reports / requests here)

A quick screenshot:

In case you’re wondering if you will [...]

Name suggestions?

Posted 2 months in | Comments (14)

So here are the first previews of the WP clone app I’ve been working on the past few weeks:
dev.digitalnature.eu/atom
That demo installation uses sqlite (a portable file database-system), that’s why the slowness and high number of queries (I’m practically forced to do 20 queries just to get the [...]

4 GB free from Wuala

Posted 4 months in | Comments (27)

Use this promo code and you get 4 GB of extra free space (valid for two years I think):
2012
And some older 1 GB promo codes you probably already know:
I-LIKE-POLAND
SKYFISH-IS-COOL
CONNECT-WITH-SUPPORT
Don’t know what Wuala is? Most of you are probably familiar with Dropbox, a popular online file [...]

New WordPress clone

Posted 5 months in | Comments (30)

If you’re wondering why the WP theme development is moving on so slow, it’s because I started working on a MVC-style  WP clone application, and this is currently taking most of my time.
Why? The main reason is simply because I love WordPress, and I’m starting to feel its limits. Leaving aside the [...]

New plugin: Post Ratings

Posted 5 months in | Comments (19)

Yet another post rating WordPress plugin
What does it do:

Allow your site users to rate posts (of any kind)
Display the average post rating, vote count or weighted (bayesian) rating within your posts
Display a widget with the top rated posts in your sidebar

A few screenshots:

Download on [...]

Featured images (thumbnails) in menus

Posted 6 months in | Comments (27)

The following code will let you use featured images as thumbnails in your custom menus. Paste this in your child theme functions.php file, or theme settings > Advanced > User-defined code:

atom()->setContextArgs(‘primary_menu’, array(‘walker’ => new ThumbMenuWalker()));

class ThumbMenuWalker [...]

Custom avatar images in WordPress

Posted 8 months in | Comments (11)

This is a short walktrough on how to let your website users upload their own avatars, without using a plugin.
First, define the maximum image sizes (note that we will only downsize, smaller images will get browser-resized):

define(‘MAX_AVATAR_WIDTH’, 96);
define(‘MAX_AVATAR_HEIGHT’, 96);

This [...]

How to correctly hook your filter to the post content

Posted 8 months in | Comments (10)

I’m seeing a lot of plugins that just hook themselves on the the_content filter tag, without bothering to handle excerpts.
Because get_the_excerpt() / the_excerpt() will call get_the_content() if the post doesn’t have an excerpt set, in many cases you get your filter applied on excerpts as well. [...]

Translating Atom themes from the Dashboard

Posted 8 months in | Comments (14)

As the title says, this is a module that allows you to translate Atom themes from your WordPress Dashboard. The advantage over PoEdit is that the strings are automatically synchronized after theme updates (you don’t need to copy the theme files on your computer and set up paths anymore), and plural [...]

Ajaxify your theme

Posted 9 months in | Comments (43)

This is another module for Atom themes that intercepts clicks for most of the internal links, opens the linked page with Javascript and replaces relevant content into the current page.
Installation:
- download the module
- upload it into your child theme’s /mods/ folder, and activate it trough the [...]