I've just set up blog.yourls.org where hopefully I will, guess what, post about YOURLS development. I think the major stuff will be cross posted here too, at least for now, and I'll blog there about all the misc and fun stuff I never write about (like plugins! owwww plugins!) On a WordPress related side note, […][...] → Read more

Matt Martz has put up a very cool tutorial on segregating comments from trackbacks with WordPress 2.7 (something that has always been on my todo list, actually). Another handy read for theme authors.[...] → Read more

WordPress 2.7 (release date: November 2008) will bring a load of new features, and most of the cool new bits will concern comment managements. On the public side of your blog, you will be able to show them threaded and paged without any extra plugin. Well, at least if your theme is able to do […][...] → Read more

The WordPress Theme Toolkit is a tool that allows theme authors add an admin menu as easily as editing 3 lines, and it powers dozens of WordPress theme back ends. Although everything still works fine and will probably work with all future versions of WordPress, I did not update its code in a while and, […][...] → Read more

Migrating Plugins from 2.3 to 2.5. WordPress coders, get prepared for the upcoming 2.5 (to be released on March 10th). Themes shouldn't be affected by the new features and code, but plugins messing with the admin area will probably need a rework.[...] → Read more

The increasingly popular Prologue theme now has a dedicated website: Prologue Theme, with a convenient download link pointing to a .zip archive instead of an SVN repository. What I like about this theme is the idea they had to include a trimmed down version of the post interface right into the home page. I see […][...] → Read more

Design Vitality is running a WordPress Theme Competition. Deadline: November 30th. Prizes: $1000, Wii, iPhone. Rules and details: here. (via)[...] → Read more

Showing a WordPress post's "last modified" date: nothing rocket science, just something that's a nice idea to implement in your theme. Hey, I just did ;)[...] → Read more

Let Adii self introduce him: "I'm a freelance web designer & strategist from Cape Town, South Africa and I specialize in WordPress designs. I'm currently finishing my Honours in Business Strategy and I would love to combine traditional business models with the new principles and philosophies of Web 2.0." When Adii asked me to review […][...] → Read more

When the day slowly finishes, when kids have gone to bed and the dishwasher is purring, is my usual end-of-day routine is about reading my mails, answering some, and have a look at del.icio.us popular links. And every few days, I just feel like I'm trapped in a space-time continuum distortion, and again comes that […][...] → Read more