Content tagged: wordpress

Redesign: Habari and HTML5

What seems like a long time ago now, I discovered an open source project called Habari. Here was this relatively small group of people, a few of whom I was already paying attention to1, building a new blogging platform. For whatever reason, it caught my attention, and I'm very glad it did. I spent hour upon hour avoiding work and learning about Habari. The more I dug into the source the more it opened my eyes to what elegant PHP looked like. The MVC pattern and some of the class patterns used in the Habari codebase are beautiful things. More ... more

You might have noticed a change.

Yep, I've applied another mask to the increasingly pocked face of sw'as. I had been preparing for full on facelift, but I've since decided on a more holistic approach is what's required. This little corner of the 'net will soon be joining the growing number of corners powered by Habari. Hence I've decided not to bother going nuts with a redisign and writing a new theme for WordPress which I'll just have to convert. It might take a bit longer, but it'll be worth it.

WP-Footnotes 3.2: Release Notes

This week saw the long awaited release of an update to the WP-Footnotes plugin for WordPress. WP-Footnotes is to easily add footnotes or sidenotes or a bibliograpy, etc. to any post using a simple mark-up which degrades (kind of) gracefully in the event that for some horrifying reason this plugin no longer works. These notes actually cover releases 3.0, 3.1 and 3.2 which all happened in quick succession. What's been fixed Some invalid mark up was being generated. Hopefully not anymore. The notorious 'a' bug (I really hope). What's been improved Add two new styles of footnotes: Repeated symbol, and ... more

Mutual Plug

I just got a ping back on the new Footnotes plugin from a clearly new/experimental WordPress site in German which was sporting a fantastic look by Phu Ly developed as part of his Theme A Day series. It reminded me that I should join the masses and give his great work a plug.

WordPress Plugin: Footnotes Version 0.2

This has now been upgraded and superseded. Check out the latest version. Because of Rob's comments I have updated the plugin so it now works with the excellent WP-Amazon plugin. While I was in the code, I decided I'd add a couple of new features as well. You can now choose whether or not the numbered links in the text should display as superscript or not.1 You can now also customise the backlink text. Many sites like to use this little guy: ↩ (↩).2 You can access all the options in the Footnotes tab of the Options section in Admin.... more