I was digging through digg.com this morning and found an excellent article from designreviver.com titled “How I Learned To Build Wordpress Themes“. It provides many sources of information including programs, tutorials, color swatches and more. Definitely a great source of information whether you want to build your own theme or start building themes for other people.
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008WordPress 2.7 beta 2
Friday, November 7th, 2008OK people we are getting really close to a final release of Wordpress 2.7. WordPress 2.7 beta 2 is now available for download. Here’s a list of changes since 2.7 beta 1:
- The Upload button didn’t always show. Fixed.
- JS on the Dashboard broke for blogs with no comments, causing several UI elements to “freeze”. Fixed.
- Recent Drafts Dashboard module didn’t show correct times. Fixed.
- Various Autosave fixes.
- Redirect after deleting a page from the editor went back to the deleted page. Fixed.
- Fixed loading of translations for default TinyMCE plugins.
- Added avatars to the edit users list.
- Added some missing translations.
- Fixed some validation errors.
- Fixed some PHP warnings and notices.
- Handle inconsistent file permissions during auto upgrade
- Change Publish box layout to better accommodate internationalized text
- Fix quick editing of the last page in the Edit Pages list
- Fix Screen Options for IE
- Fixes for choose tag from tag cloud
- Rewrite rules fixes for certain hosts
- Don’t check for updates on every page load
- Easier post box dropping
- Preview fixes
- RTL fixes
- Fixed broken wp-mail
- Plugin update and install fixes
- First draft of contextual help tab
WordPress 2.7 Beta 1
Saturday, November 1st, 2008WordPress 2.7 beta 1 is now available for download. This site has been using the nightly builds of WordPress and I can tell you there are some major changes.
Wordpress 2.6.3
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008Wordpress has released version 2.6.3 as a security fix. A vulnerability in the Snoopy library was announced today. WordPress uses Snoopy to fetch the feeds shown in the Dashboard. Although this seems to be a low risk vulnerability for WordPress users, we wanted to get an update out immediately. 2.6.3 is available for download right now. If you don’t want to download the whole release to get the security fix, you can download the following two files and copy them over your 2.6.2 installation.
bbpress 1.0-alpha-2 released
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008Just received notice that bbPress 1.0 alpha 2 has been released to the general public for download. The next installation in the bbPress alpha series introduces new features and fixes most of the issues raised by testers from the previous release.
A lot of the features were covered in a previous post. You can view the changes in bbPress between 1.0-alpha-1 and 1.0-alpha-2, as well as the changes that have been made to BackPress between revision 109 and 161.
The XML-RPC functionality now built into bbPress 1.0 alpha has made possible a new plugin for WordPress called “bbPress Live“.
bbPress Live allows the display of information from a bbPress 1.0 forum from inside a WordPress blog.
Specifically, it provides two new widgets:
- bbPress Forum List – Provides a list or table of forums
- bbPress Latest Topics – Provides a list or table of the latest topics
Each widget can be used multiple times, and configured individually.
There are also two functions for use in themes. These functions return a raw php array which can be manipulated inside the theme:
bbpress_live_get_forums()– Provides an array of forumsbbpress_live_get_topics()– Provides an array of the latest topics
bbPress Live can only connect to a bbPress forum running bbPress with a version of 1.0 or higher. The bbPress blog must have XML-RPC enabled in it’s settings.
**Update: if you can’t download bbPress 1.0 Alpha 2 from the regular download site you can get it here http://trac.bbpress.org/browser/tags/1.0-alpha-2.