Have at it, debate, challenge, and support your own favorites from the first inaugural Pink for October awareness web initiative. The following top ten (preliminary) were compiled and hand-picked from the list of 200+ participates collected by Matthew Oliphant. The results were not based on the aesthetic value alone. Each participate below has agreed to […]
Anyone who deals with multiple WordPress driven sites in concurrent development can attest to the tedious task of creating the basic folder and file structure requirements. Note that the following tip is not limited to the development of WordPress. The tip can very well be applied to any active developer workflow which requires some type […]
In an effort to answer the emails and search patterns requesting active plugin currently in use on 5ThirtyOne, I’ve widdled through the plugins page deciding which ones I relied on most. I realized that quite a number of plugins were activated, yet unused. So I thank readers for their inquiries which prompted me to do […]
Not one to toot my own horn, but the 5ThirtyOne Foliage Mod was recently awarded the “Most Creative Design” award for the WordPress 2.0 Theme Competition. A quick overview of the WordPress 2.0 competition: WordPress has a powerful theme system that allows the look and feel of any site to be changed with a single […]
The original 5ThirtyOne 2006 Spring Reboot submission. V2 was a live redesign submission gone stale. As the reboot deadline neared, I began seeing submissions from sites around the net which left me yearning for more. The v2 distribution is a centered narrow column design which features a unique modal window for searches and displaying recent […]
Paul Stamatiou does the grunt and provides a little code snippet for improving a Gravatar enabled blog. By default, the gravatar plugin redirects clicks to Gravatar.com. A simple copy n’ paste will have Gravatars on your site redirected to their respective authors page. <?php if (function_exists(‘gravatar’)) { ?><a href="<?php comment_author_url(); ?>" title="<?php comment_author(); ?>’s website"><img […]
One of my favorite WordPress plugins [hands down] is Subscribe to Comments by Mark Jaquith and Jennifer (ScriptyGoddess). The plugin allows readers to subscribe to comment activities via email bypassing the need to bookmark or subscribe [via RSS] to particular posts. As with any well written WordPress plugin, installation is a simple two step process: […]
Due to my preference of minimalism over all else, I began experimenting – using the current 5ThirtyOne v2.0 template – with an alternative to generic blog Search box positions. Rather than placing the search bar in the sidebar or towards the bottom content area, I decided to create a [Lightbox powered] modal window which would […]
Grab it while it’s hot. Coded and tweaked on my anorexic X40. I admit I spent a lopsided amount of time on the drawer. It’s entertaining. What can I say? You can grab the semi-complete theme on the Official Foliage Mod page. I say semi-complete because I’ve stripped the ‘asides’ version from the bottom content […]
I couldn’t resist. Foliage sounds like Folgers [coffee]. Sing it with me: “The best part of waking up, is [Foliage] in your cup!” Ack. No?. I know there are people who each their veggies. Well here it is, my first public release to the WordPress community. From what I hear, the WordPress group is an […]
One of my favorite WordPress plugins [hands down] is Subscribe to Comments by Mark Jaquith and Jennifer (ScriptyGoddess). The plugin allows readers to subscribe to comment activities via email bypassing the need to bookmark or subscribe [via RSS] to particular posts. As with any well written WordPress plugin, installation is a simple two step process: […]