January 29, 2009 by Josh Nunn
Matt Mullenweg has declared today “Thank a Plugin Developer Day” to celebrate Wordpress passing the 4000 plugin mark. Often Plugins are created for free and have tonnes of hard work put into them for little or no reward. I currently have 22 plugins active on my website at the moment handling a variety of functions, but haven’t got much time to go into all the details of who made them and to thank them individually.
Instead, I’ll thank one man who made two of the plugins I use: Joe Tan. I use his excellent Flickr Photo Album for WordPress plugin on two sites and I love it. It integrates seamlessly with Wordpress and allows me to pull in my Flickr photos into posts and create galleries from sets. This plugin along with a Pro Flickr account have turned my crummy blog into a much more wonderful thing. I use it to keep all my relatives up-to-date with Amelynne’s progress as well. Joe also maintains an terrific plugin to pull files of an Amazon S3 account.
So thank you Joe! Your work and effort are greatly appreciated.
I told Joe that I’d send a donation, but found no way to do it on his site. When I do, I will!
Tags: Flickr, Matt Mullenweg, plugin, wordpress
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December 14, 2008 by Josh Nunn
Good Design in Wordpress 2.7The latest Wordpress update, 2.7, manages to get WIN all over my keyboard. It fair shoots out of the screen and all over the place with its sexy sexy curves and simple lines. I want to give it a hug.
The 2.6 update was pretty good. It was good enough that 2.5 is all but erased completely from my mind. 2.7 however, looks gorgeous, plays nice with all my extensions and adds a couple of neat features that make me want to go home with it, and I barely even know it.
Awesome Feature Number 1 is automatic site software upgrades. Untested as I write this, the idea of its existence is enough to make me “ghee” with joy. Found under “Tools > Upgrade” on the new left-hand menu, it offers simple upgrades to the latest software that bypasses the old “upload each new file/directory” that some have been subjected to, and even cuts out the middle man web-hosts who have been offering something similar for a while.
Awesome Feature Number 2 is plugin searching and installation RIGHT FROM THE FRIGGIN ADMIN PAGE! This makes plugins so easy to install that it practically guarantees broken Wordpress installations across the world as people just install new plugins ’cause they can! No more tossing up if it’s worth it to upload and install something new. Why waste a second thinking about it when you can just press “install” and see? In minutes of upgrading my site tonight I had a working iPhone version of my site, and (hopefully) some integration with my FriendFeed account. That is the “killer feature” of Wordpress right there my friends, found under “Plugins > Add New”. It makes me so happy I could cry.
So go and update it today. It’ll be the last painful upgrade you do.
Tags: FriendFeed, iPhone, Plug-in, wordpress
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July 23, 2008 by Josh Nunn
A quick obligatory post using the new Wordpress iPhone app. Useful, and might mean more frequent personal posts. Missing Zemanta and the Flickr Photo Gallery plugin for quick links and Flickr integration. Can’t seem to easily link to those two useful tools for instance. I might use it to post about things in the “real world” as they happen.
Tags: apps, fun, iPhone, wordpress
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April 10, 2008 by Josh Nunn
Makes Awful Headlines
QuickPost is a plugin consisting of a bookmarklet which will be added to your links toolbar, and a blog editor triggered by the bookmarklet. The options are inspired by the Tumblr (http://www.tumblr.com) weblog system. It is a great service but it’s not Wordpress/
WordPress › QuickPost « WordPress Plugins
It’s pretty good.
Tags: plugin, tool, wordpress
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December 24, 2007 by Josh Nunn
A new theme for a new year — only one week early.
I loved my last theme (actually, my last two themes — but the C64 one was a throwaway), but every time I make a new theme I learn something, and I wanted to incorporate some of my new skills into a new theme.
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Tags: claim, create, design, personal, wordpress
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December 9, 2007 by Josh Nunn
Screenshot of my commodore 64 themeI loved my old Commodore 64. It had fantastically playable games, neat 16 colour graphics, and that awesome SID chip for the charmingly wonky C=64 sound. You could program on it, play on it, wait for things to load on it…
It had cartridges, it had a tape drive, it had a clunky disk drive that worked marginally faster than the tape drive. Really, it was shit compared to what we have today, but man-oh-man it still outstrips every one of the computers any true geek has ever owned since.
On Monday, the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, will celebrate the C64’s 25th anniversary. CNN article on Commodore 64 anniversary
In August 2007, the Commodore 64 made it to 25 years old. And in honour of the Computer History Museum’s celebrations, I have created a Commodore 64 Wordpress theme to add to my website. If you’ve come to this page wondering why my site is all big and blue and chunky — it’s to pay respect to a truly wonderful computer.
If you’ve come here looking to get the theme yourself — let me know and I’ll see if I can make it available to download. It’s still a work-in-progress, so expect to see some changes before things finally settle and I haven’t tested it on any versions of IE. It’s a little harder to navigate, so I’ve made a menu link up there in the top right corner, so you don’t get completely lost.
I’ve made the comment areas blue too, so you can relive the joys of typing LOAD “*” ‚8,1 yourself, so go on and leave me a comment. And everyone, please be patient for the next two weeks and join me in remembering one of the best computers I’ve ever owned.
LOAD “*” ‚8,1
Tags: commodore 64, create, design, wordpress
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June 15, 2007 by Josh Nunn
Thanks for your interest in my theme, “joshnunn 0.1″. joshnunn is a simple two column theme with static header, footer and sidebar. My biggest achievement with it was making it entirely with ‘em’s for maximum resizable-ness…
I’ve not put any licence on it because I’ve not made it transportable to other Wordpress setups — it requires a number of plugins to work properly, and I’ve made no effort to make it customisable with other logos/icons etc. One day I may make it available, but frankly — do you want it? Really?
Feel free to take it/modify it/make it your own, but please mention me (and this site) somewhere.
Tags: create, design, wordpress
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