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November 7, 2006
Theme update

Posted by nitestrike in : Site Changes, Minor Ver, Blogging , add a comment

A new version of Regulus Theme for WordPress has been released and plan on trying it out on Dev-n-Progress. It my primary theme on most of my sites, so it is a pretty big change for me.


As mentioned a couple of weeks ago I have been working on an update to Regulus. There are only a couple of small changes to the main Regulus file. The big change is the addition of translations.

I have said it before, but this time I think I mean it (I hope). Regulus is now feature complete. There will be no more Regulus updates unless there are any major bugs to be fixed. I will however add new translations if any are sent to me. I want to work on other projects (a new theme?) so Regulus is now done.

 
You can find Regulus at Binary Moon, I find it a really great theme and highly suggest it for those out there looking for theme that has many customizable options and tweaks.

November 3, 2006
UPDATED: WordPress rollout across the AnderTek sites…

Posted by nitestrike in : UPDATE, Site Changes, Minor Ver , add a comment

So far the new version of WordPress 2.0.5 has been running well. Do not seem to be any anomalies popping up. So I will be rolling the update across the AnderTek family of sites.

Sites:


UPDATED: bbPress integrated…

Posted by nitestrike in : Site Changes, Dev, Blogging , add a comment

So I’m doing this a little bit out of order but I have installed bbPress and WordPress on a new site, yes I’m slowly ticking  up the AnderTek family of sites. I have them up and running with each having their own DB, but using WordPress DB for the user accounts. Just a little hint when using two Databases  make sure that you don’t have the password and host server names swapped, just does not seem to work :-) So for those ticking off points, I’ve got the two installed (WordPress / bbPress). I still have some integration like having them use the WP Theme in bbPress and to have a link to forum (bbPress). Since this is going to require some coding I’m not going to develop on Dev-n-Progress, just not going to be stable enough to allow.

To-Do:

Tally-ho

 

Update - 11/04/2006:
I have wrapped the WordPress Theme around bbPress install, which just took some tweaking of the bbPress Theme and referencing the WordPress install that it was associated with it.

Update - 11/06/2006:
They didn’t take much, and was quite a simple, I now have a static page that access the access the forums. I had not updated the options permalink options to date and title. Then the setting I found on the bbPress Support Forums setting the Page’s Post Slug = Folder name of the bbPress install folder. Side note you do need to have bbPress located in a sub-folder of the WordPress you are referencing from.

October 29, 2006
WP 2.0.5 has hit the street

Posted by nitestrike in : Site Changes, Minor Ver, Blogging , add a comment

WordPress has been released and am in the process of rolling it out to Dev-N-Progress and see how it shakes out.  

Here are some of the changes coming in WordPress 2.0.5:

  • is_feed() status is preserved when handling 404s
  • manually entering pages greater than the number of pages for a given post now shows the highest numbered page
  • improved security in wp-db-backup plugin
  • user description is no longer HTML-entity converted going into the database
  • fix for rel=”nofollow nofollow” repetition
  • plugins are sorted by plugin name, instead of filename
  • multi-line options in /wp-admin/options.php are preserved
  • the authors dropdown is now sorted by display_name
  • the_meta() properly ignores keys that start with an underscore
  • post meta keys and data are escaped properly on the post screen
  • users are prevented from entering strings that will be interpreted as serialized data when coming out of the database
  • make_clickable() no longer adds links within links
  • error suppression
  • i18n fixes

This is not an exhaustive list… just the important ones, or the ones I thought people would care about.

You can check out these fixes and more in version 2.0.5 Ronan.

Update: I have rolled out WordPress 2.0.5 to Dev-N-Progress and so far so good.

Resource:
2.0.5 Ronan - WordPress.org
Changes in WordPress 2.0.5 - Marc on WordPress
WordPress.org - Download

August 18, 2006
Theme tweaking

Posted by nitestrike in : Site Changes, Dev, Hacks , add a comment

I really like the Regulus Theme by Ben over at Binary Moon. But as I was going through my own site(s) I noticed that the date only appears once for each day there is an entry.  The date is displayed after the title of the newest/last post of the day. I’m going to look through the code and see where that is written to the page and put it before and on a line above the tile of the newest/last post of the day.

UPDATE: Boy that didn’t take long, took longer to save the change. Cool, my first tweak for Wordpress.

UPDATE2: I have now updated the Regulus Theme on all the sites.

July 1, 2006
New month, new design

Posted by nitestrike in : Site Changes , add a comment

I have decided upon the Regulus Theme, created by Ben Gillbanks at Binary Moon. It has a clean simple design and looks good. I’ll be making more changes to the site over the next few weeks, or as time allows.

June 28, 2006
Site redesign begins

Posted by nitestrike in : Site Changes, Minor Ver , add a comment

I am refocusing the site to a more personal nature.

And thank goodness I have resolved the issues I have had with the sites backend on both the dev and prod sites. Not sure what the issues were, but they were resolved by an upgrade to Wordpress 2.0.3. Thanks for the assist guys.