Today, December the 10th, I turn 17. Lots of exciting stuff has happened this year… including being dugg twice, releasing a popular Wordpress plugin and meeting new really cool people.
We’re close to Devthought’s first anniversary too, which will mean an upgrade, a new design, and lots of new stuff. Stay tuned
Tags: on December 10th, 2007 20 Comments
I’ve taken some time to produce a small but incredibly useful plugin for Wordpress. It’s called Plugin Uploader and it’ll do just that: allow you to upload plugins through the admin interface.
It can still be buggy and it has not been widely tested in different server configurations. However, I’ve been using it on a couple of sites and everything’s going smoothly. All you need to run it is set two folder permissions.
Download and more information in the plugin page
Tags: on November 28th, 2007 4 Comments
This weekend (around Sat 26) WP-o-Matic 1.0 is to be released, including many bugfixes, some small new features (like tags support in campaign creation), and most importantly, full Wordpress 2.3 support
This stable branch will not see feature updates in quite a while, only bugfixes, in an attempt to provide a solid and reliable feed aggregating plugin for Wordpress once and for all.
You can contribute! Suggest new features or changes for the upcoming WP-o-Matic 1.1 by posting your comments here. You can stay up-to-date with all the news regarding WP-o-Matic through your favorite RSS reader.
Update: Here is a pre-release version for you to try.
It’s fully 2.3 and 2.4 compatible, and includes the new setup screen to assist users in installing WP-o-Matic successfully. Click here to download
Update 2: Newest version here. WP-o-Matic is slowly reaching perfection
Update 3: You can find WP-o-Matic RC2 in the main post now.
Tags: on October 19th, 2007 76 Comments
After so much feedback, reading so many of your -often annoying- comments, the first release candidate is out.
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Tags: on September 2nd, 2007 58 Comments
Despite all this time of inactivity, the WP-o-Matic project is more alive than ever!
Here are some screenshots of what will be the next stable version of this useful plugin. As I promised, it comes packed with all the features of competitors’ similar products, and even more.
Please don’t hesitate to send in your comments, and don’t forget to…
Tags: on July 25th, 2007 96 Comments
As you see, I haven’t updated in a while - have been quite busy.
I’m glad to announce that I’m working on the following updates, which will be here on Devthought in the next few weeks:
Stay tuned
Tags: on April 22nd, 2007 51 Comments
For the last couple of years, we developers have been struggling with IE incompatibilities while creating and testing our sites. Those include the non-native support for PNG transparencies, the box model bug, and many many more.
Thanks to the effort of many developers, documenting and gathering information about them, sometimes even providing workarounds, we’ve somehow managed to deal with them.
IE7, however, was supposed to solve all these bugs, and add those all missing features. Nothing could be farther from the truth. In this article I’ll highlight some of the new built-in annoyances.
Read more »Tags: on March 18th, 2007 78 Comments
WP-o-Matic 0.2-beta is out, earlier than expected. The first to test the first uploaded version noticed that adding new feeds wasn’t possible.
Apparently, some part of WP-o-Matic was still working with MagpieRSS instead of the new Simplepie, which resulted in some PHP warnings.
Please refer to WP-o-Matic main post to download the new version. No new features, only small bugfixes so far.
Tags: on March 18th, 2007 32 Comments
Update: the code that empowers this menu has been upgraded to the latest MooTools version, and even improved! Now works with vertical, horizontal menus, with more flexible morphing!
Let me introduce you to Fancy Menu:
When it comes to creating the navigation part of your Website, the first thing you might think of is an unordered list that you style as tabs. Lately, such navbars are everywhere, as many people believe they’ll make their site more Web 2.0-compatible. Personally, I just think they’re semantically better and accessible.
In this article I’ll go through the creation of a custom navigation bar with some cute Javascript effects that will certainly impress your friends. Thanks to the great Mootools library, this beauty is contained in 1.5kb. Not only that, but it’s also cross browser (tested on Internet Explorer 6/7, Firefox and Safari) and accessible!
Read more »Tags: on January 29th, 2007 505 Comments
