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Google Ajax Libraries plugin version 1.0

I’ve just uploaded version 1.0 of the Google Ajax Libraries plugin, which is available from the Google Code download page.
This version adds checks for the minimised versions of some of the libraries (JQuery, Moo) as well as the standard versions and also adds support for the newly available Google hosted libraries (YUILoader and swfobject).

Fixing Javascript compatibility issues with the Google Ajax plugin

The default setting for the Google Ajax plugin is to load the latest version of each of the Javascript libraries that Google hosts.
It does this by using a specific format of URL that only references the major version number of each library. Unfortunately some plugins have problems or incompatibilities with newer versions of each library [...]

The redirectr theme

The redirectr theme isn’t pretty. It isn’t at the cutting edge of design and won’t make people think you are smart and clever. It will, however, take your blog somewhere that other themes can’t. To a new address.
It has been developed to solve a simple problem. Redirecting traffic from an old blog/site address to a [...]

Updates to plugin download locations

I’m doing a bit of streamlining and tidying up of files and SVN repositories for the plugins that I currently have in development and those that have already been released.
For each of my plugins there will now be a single SVN repository and a single download location. This will immediately save me a lot of [...]

Screen preview - Account management

I thought I would share some of the account management pages that I am currently working on for the StayPress system.
Account details page
This page completely hijacks the standard WordPress profile.php file via the account plugin (no changes ... [More] to the core WordPress code, so deactivating the plugin returns the account page to normal).

Related accounts
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How to - Adding menu sub-titles to a theme

Menus are an important part of your WordPress site. If ever a sentence didn’t need to be vocalised then it was that last one, without menus your users would have a hard time finding their way around your site. Practically all available WordPress themes construct their menu’s in one of three ways - from WordPress [...]

Should site functionality be in the theme?

I’m conflicted. For all of the systems and sites I’ve developed and worked on over the past few years, I have managed to keep the functionality and design (look) of the site separate. Whether this was by design, or some sort of automatic process that has managed to work its way in to my cerebral [...]

Styling code samples par deux

In response to this comment by Elad in my previous post about styling code within a blog post, I thought I would take up the challenge of having the WP-codebox libraries and stylesheets only load when there is a post that actually contains a chunk of code to style.
This solution requires some hacking and moving [...]

Styling code samples

I’ve been looking for a stylish and reliable code highlighter for WordPress for quite a while. Most of the plugins available out there are basically a wrapper for the Geshi highlighting library, but still the output and look of them vary quite significantly.
Thankfully, I found a very useful review of 4 different plugins over at [...]

Updates complete - sort of

I decided that this place needed a different look, a move away from a “corporate” style and to something a little bit more fun. I don’t think this new look is going to be the final design, but it certainly makes a change from before.
I wanted a more grungy look, but just couldn’t find anything [...]