Adding Gravatars to Posts

6 Feb 2008 – 5:32
By adam | Also posted in blogging | Comments (5)

With the launch of the Blueprint site, and all the hubbub over the release of Prologue, there are now a couple of good examples of using gravatars for more than just comments. The prologue function is a little weighty to be copied to other themes, since it’s built for wordpress.com, so i thought I’d [...]

I Has a Habari

12 Jan 2008 – 5:35
By adam | Also posted in blogging | Comments (6)

Bluehost updated all their servers last night or so, so my first response was to upgrade from habari 0.2DR to 0.3.3, My first attempt failed, since the bluehost upgrade moved the location of pdo.so, so my old php.ini didn’t work anymore. Fortunately, bluehost now has default php.ini1 , which I installed, and saw that [...]

Desaparecidos: Wordpress.com Sucks

7 Jan 2008 – 8:55
By adam | Also posted in blogging | Comments (43)

This is non-news. I have nothing new to report. Everything I have to say has been said by the people directly involved. I am repeating this only as a gesture of solidarity because I am so offended and disgusted by the actions of Automattic, inc.
Timethief is a wonderful person, who was one of [...]

Buckshot Ep. 8: Release

13 Dec 2007 – 9:11
By adam | Also posted in blogging, design | Comments (3)

The Moose is Loose!  Joen has released Fauna 1.0 Final(ly)  - I doubt Andy’s response carries much weight for wordpress.com after a year and a half, but hey,  fauna’s still a great theme.
Also overdue, but less so:  Movable Type OS has been released.  WP-super-cache and MT-Burn plugins make it less different from WordPress than it [...]

Theme Competitions

6 Dec 2007 – 3:29
By adam | Also posted in blogging, design | Comments (8)

In true wordpress theme competition tradition, Lunarpages is launching a contest, overlapping with Design Vitality contest. Not that many people were entering that one, I guess I wasn’t the only one who thought it sounded like a scam. Lunarpages at least has a decent start on terms and conditions. Depending on [...]