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New Journalized Theme Beta Released

mike — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:44:02 +0000

After nearly two years of inactivity, I have finally updated and released a new version of my Journalized Theme.

The theme includes support for WordPress 2.7 features, but is backwards compatible with WordPress 2.5 and 2.6

Just some of the new features:

Comes with six built in ’skins’ (including the old Blue, Sand, and Winter)
A new administration interface to configure the theme.
Support for widgits, tags, and Gravatars
Can be configured to have 1, 2, or 3 columns.
Supports custom header image, including in the background
and many more…

Go check it out and let me know what you think. (Leave feedback on the theme page, not here)

Almost ready for WordCampUK

mike — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:02:18 +0000

I’m almost ready for my trip to WordCamp UK. I’m going first thing tomorrow morning by train. “It’s easier by train”, and as it happens, the car is broken and in the menders!

I forgot to mention that I am also on the Code Surgery panel on Sunday too. If you have any coding problems there is still time to submit your questions to the surgeons.

There are still a couple more hours to buy tickets. Please come along, I look forward to seeing you there.

I’ll Be Speaking At WordCamp UK

mike — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:59:14 +0000

Ooh! I’ve been invited to sit on the panel for a question and answer session on Saturday at WordCamp UK. I’m sort of looking forward to it.

The current running order has the panel on just before lunch, but I don’t think that’s finalised yet.

Tickets are still on sale and it’s a ticket only event. No ticket, no getting in.

Check out the all new WordCamp UK 2008 blog.

Wordcamp UK - Change of Venue

mike — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:44:34 +0000

After some last minute changes (and upsetting a few people) there is now a new venue for the WordCamp UK 2008 event.

The new venue is The Studio, it is still in Birmingham, and in fact quite close to the previously planned venue. The Studio has a directions map and their main web site lists all the features. The event will be hosted in ‘Atrium Bar’ and the adjoining ‘Open’ room.

Someone kindly set up a Google Maps directions page.

For full details go to the WordCamp UK wiki.

WordCamp UK

mike — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:06:40 +0000

WordCamp UK is an informal gathering of WordPress bloggers, podcasters, designers and developers based in the United Kingdom.

When? - Saturday and Sunday 19-20 July 2008
Where? - Aston University Lakeside Centre, Birmingham

I’ll be there, will you?

Find out more

WordPress is 5

mike — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:37 +0000

Another year has passed for WordPress. This birthday comes just in time for the fantastic announcement from Matt about the future of Automattic and WordPress.

WordPress goes from strength to strength each year, and it has come an incredible distance since the beginning. Matt and the team at Automattic really do a fantastic job.

Many happy returns!

WordPress is 4

mike — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:00:09 +0000

Another year has passed for WordPress. It has come a long way in the last year and an incredible distance since the beginning.

Many happy returns!

Journalized Theme 2 Beta 2

mike — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 22:41:52 +0000

I have released a minor update to my Journalized Theme version 2. This fixes issue where is didn’t save your options. Some people have reported this problem. Having found and fixed the bug, I cannot understand how it ever worked, unless WordPress’ get_settings() function has changed.
I have also included a fix for the slashes problem in the column headers, and a couple of minor cleanups. You can get it from here: journalized-theme-2.0-Beta-2.tar.gz or journalized-theme-2.0-Beta-2.zip .
The main page to leave comments about this is the Journalized Theme Version 2 page.

Remember this is still beta code. It is a minor update to the previous release. I have a lot more code written, but it is not complete or tested yet.

Update: I’ve put together a readme file listing the changes I made.

Updating To WordPress 2.0.5 Problems?

mike — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:12:50 +0000

Hmmm… I upgraded to WP 2.0.5 today (yes I know I’m late) and it appears to have marked some old posts as new. Hence they may well appear in the Dashboard.

I haven’t done anything to prompt this other than upgrade. I’m not sure what has caused this, but I think one or two other people had similar problems. Sorry for the confusion.

Update: I just thought of something I did change.
I changed the blog description: I changed “not quite so daily thoughts” to be “not-quite-so-daily thoughts”. I wonder whether that is enough to trigger the problem with the software at WordPress Planet?

WordPress 2.0.1 Released

mike — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:55:21 +0000

For those who have been waiting, WordPress 2.0.1 has just been released. This version has seen a month of bug fixing (over 100 bugs squashed), the majority being issues with the administration screens and their behaviour. There were some pretty detailed discussions on the developer and testing mailing lists to resolve some of these issues.
Alas, the WYSIWYG post editor is still not accessible to keyboard only users, so if you can only use a keyboard and not a mouse make sure to turn it off.
If you want to mark up your posts semantically you might want to turn it off too. With this new “Visually rich editor”, if you want to quote somebody, you need to think “indent”, and if you want to stop quoting them, think “outdent”.

The all singing new media uploader, which is right on the edit page where it should be, at least seems to work better now… but only if you can use a mouse. If you are unable to use a mouse, you will be unable to upload images and other media to your blog. Even with the fancy editor turned off. You are unable to perform this task. I know it wasn’t very friendly in the last version, but it did work, you were able to upload images, and copy and paste their tags into your post. You can no longer do that — it does not work.

I’m sorry to harp on about this but removing basic functionality, even if it were for a small number of people (which it is not — a large number of people have trouble using a mouse with precision, if at all), is still a step backwards in my book.