The End of Wank

I recently wanted to link to some thoughts I’d posted previously, and it was shocking to realize just much my writing and attitudes have changed in the last year.  I’ve been disinterested in the drama that seems to follow WordPress around.  I made one last attempt to deal with the goings on at wankpress, but [...]

Succumb

It’s rare that I have time for a full fledged article on anything lately.  Too scatterbrained, or too busy.  In the meantime, I’ve achieved the quorum of real-life friends using Twitter for it to be a viable outlet.  140 characters is much easier to fill, than enough of a blog post to fit my layout.  [...]

WordPress Flash Photo Carousel Plugin

Today, my Chicago-based WordPress-powered design firm released their first plugin: WordPress Flash Photo Carousel Plugin.  It allows you to easily manage photo galleries from your media library, and creates a template tag to easily insert the Carousel Galleries into your theme.
I love working with WordPress 9-5.  It’s different than building and supporting general use templates, [...]

Sandbox and Promised Land for Movable Type

The guys at Six Apart have released Sandbox for Movable Type.  They’ve included the winning themes from the Sandbox Designs Competition.  The first step is to install Sandbox as a plugin.  After that, you’ll be able to install Promised Land as a one click install1 .  You can also manually install any Sandbox Child Theme, [...]

Comment Authority

Every few months, a new service comes out with their own WordPress plugin, to add their centralized service to the standard wordpress comments.  Dutifully, I try them all out, and inevitably decide that there’s no value add for me.  A lot of this has to do with my relatively complex comment layout.  Most of these [...]