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WordPress Theme Designers: Slapping You Upside the Head AARRRGGGGHHHH!!!! Do you hear me yet? Listen closely. AARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!! This is the sound of the pain and suffering bloggers on WordPress.com and WordPress make when they encounter the most lovely and useful of WordPress Themes that lack a few of the most basic elements. Come on, folks.  Read more »

Take complete control of text formatting options on your blog: Formatting and encoding per post, globally on posts, and globally on comments. Text Control will allow you to choose from a variety of formatting syntaxes and encoding options. You can choose between Markdown, Textile 1, Textile 2, nl2br, WPautop, and “No Formatting” for formatting along  Read more »

I’ve created the following tutorial in response to topic 47148: osCommerce and WordPress at WordPress Support. While I have been programming PHP for a while, I am new to both OS Commerce and WordPress. That being said, for this integration I have tried to follow the coding standards for creating a new OS Commerce page.  Read more »

WordPress 2,0 is out any day now, get up to speed! geek ramblings » WordPress 2.0 Release imminent 2.0 Very Soon!! « WordPress Support What’s New in WordPress 2.0? · Asymptomatic User:Matt/2.0 Plugin Compatibility « WordPress Codex What’s Not Gonna Work in WordPress 2.0 · Asymptomatic

Some cool blog / design related links… The sights our eyes behold, Will open up our merging hearts, And feed our empty souls. » Variables in your CSS via PHP Lorelle on WordPress » Buttons, Bows and Badges for Your Blog Scriptaculous Lists with PHP si·mil·i·tude – a web log – a Flash based WP  Read more »

You may have noticed a few changes to the site. flickrRSS plugin – this thing pretty much rocks. It makes it trivial to show recent flickr image uploads all while caching to your local system to keep speed from being an issue. Yeah team! You will also need help from The flickr id Getter. Google AdSense  Read more »

The "Fade Anything Technique" is an awesome JavaScript library to fade elements of a page. This has been recently used with much success to show users new or changed items on a page without causing more screen clutter. Twilight Universe » Blog Archive » Twilight Fade Anything – the FAT bundled as a WordPress plug-in.  Read more »

Some changes in the. I put in the awesome “Cat2Tag” plugin for WordPress online and ripped out the one I had been using. Why? The old one was nice but didn’t integrate into the mainline WordPress code as well as I liked. Cat2Tag kicks ass in a few ways… By repurposing the categories system that  Read more »

Snippets from a WordPress plugin I am working on… I spent a little time hacking on this to get used to the structure. It’s pretty sweet and thanks to the "Writing a Plugin" page it isn’t even crazy hard. Here is a step by step breakdown of an actual, functioning (but lame) plugin called "MyPlugin".