http://justintadlock.com Life, Blogging, and WordPress Sat, 10 May 2008 23:14:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been hard at work these past couple of weeks putting together several new WordPress goodies for everyone. I'm pretty excited about some of the results I'm getting with the work I've been doing. Here are some things to look forward to this month: Unveiling of a new super ... http://justintadlock.com/archives/2008/05/10/new-wordpress-stuff-to-look-forward-to We've learned how to spruce up our comments sections a bit with the first part of this series. Now, we'll cover an about the author section for single posts. I think this will mostly be useful for blogs and sites with multiple authors because you might want to tell ... http://justintadlock.com/archives/2008/05/05/doing-more-with-gravatars-part-2 I wanted to take a quick stroll this morning as the sun was rising to take pictures. Unfortunately, I forgot to charge my camera and missed the early dawn. So, instead of the post "South Korean Sunrise," which is kind of catchy, you only get "South Korean Morning." I ... http://justintadlock.com/archives/2008/05/04/south-korean-morning I've been playing around quite a bit with the gravatar feature for WordPress since it now comes built in. I've learned a few things, so I figured I'd share them with you. From this point forward, I will assume you know what a gravatar is. WordPress 2.5 comes ... http://justintadlock.com/archives/2008/04/30/doing-more-with-gravatars-part-1 Well. It's done. [gallery columns="1" size="full"] It took me a few days and several complete redos of the entire design, but I think I'm finally content with this new theme. I call it Retro-fitted because the colors are a kind of throwback to some past that I certainly ... http://justintadlock.com/archives/2008/04/23/new-design-retro-fitted I'm about to go all WordPress Geek 2.5 on y'all now. So, if you don't want to look at PHP code or have no clue what a widget is, then you might want to take a break from this post. WordPress theme developers. Pay attention. Ian Stewart just created the ... http://justintadlock.com/archives/2008/04/18/widgetize-this Description: This plugin replaces the default gallery feature in WordPress 2.5 with a valid XHTML solution and offers support for multiple Lightbox-type image scripts. Version: Updated to version 0.3.2! Support: Support forums Download version 0.3.2 Tested with WP 2.5.1 ([download#27#hits] downloads) Download version 0.2.3 Tested with WP 2.5 Why I made this ... http://justintadlock.com/archives/2008/04/13/cleaner-wordpress-gallery-plugin I've heard a lot of moaning and complaining about the new WordPress dashboard. Some of these complaints are valid, such as the need for the dashboard to be either centered or fluid-width for users with larger screens. I want to argue the other side of one of the major complaints ... http://justintadlock.com/archives/2008/04/05/in-defense-of-the-wordpress-25-widget-panel As many of you know, I've had a good bit of trouble in the last few days. Upgrading from WordPress version 2.5 and bbPress 0.9 has been a disaster for me. My blog was down for about three days while I was trying to fix things. Another week of ... http://justintadlock.com/archives/2008/04/04/picking-up-the-pieces Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging! http://justintadlock.com/archives/2008/04/03/hello-world