August 2011

  • Aug 24, 2011
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    Accumulo Theme – Photo and Advertising Updates

    I got a tweet the other day asking if Accumulo supports photos in the RSS widgets. My answer, at the time, should have been no – but I had a couple of hours free – and so I got to work. In the next two hours I added two new bits of functionality to the [...]

  • Aug 22, 2011
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    Nominate Broken Link Checking

    The Nominate social voting theme allows you to give your visitors access to submit their own content to be voted on, on your website. The problem with this is you then have no control over what happens to their content in the future. If they delete a post, close the website, change the url structure, [...]

  • Aug 20, 2011
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    TimThumb Security

    A couple of weeks ago a security flaw was found in TimThumb – the script we use to resize images in our themes. TimThumb is actually an invention of our own – something we originally developed for Mimbo Pro. As soon as the flaw was discovered I set to work fixing as many issues as [...]

July 2011

  • Jul 3, 2011
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    Customizing Nominate Article Fields

    A Nominate user recently contacted me asking how to modify the theme so that they could have custom fields in the post submission process. Initially I was skeptical but after some thought I realized this could be quite a powerful addition to the arsenal and so I worked out how to add a filter to [...]

June 2011

  • Jun 18, 2011
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    Byline – A Real Magazine Theme

    Byline is a flexible WordPress magazine theme that has a couple of tricks up it’s sleeve. Ever since Mimbo Pro, all those years ago, I have wanted to create another magazine theme, but I wanted to try something a bit different. So, I decided to partner with a friend of mine, Jack, and he came [...]