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No new Hesk integration tutorials
I added a ‘Help Desk’ tech support ‘ticket’ system some time ago (Hesk v0.93.1) and wrote a tutorial for it here. I don’t use it and haven’t had time to update to the latest version of Hesk (latest version of hesk doesn’t play well with my tutorial), and I may not update it, might even [...]
Integrating a Help Desk into WordPress in 15 minutes or less
I had an interest in adding a Help Desk to my site where clients could submit ‘tickets’ that would be tracked (and stored in a MySQL database, preferably alongside my current WordPress one) and when changed/updated both the client and I would be notified via email… I had noticed a reference to Hesk (v0.93.1) in [...]
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About Me widget for WordPress – update
Working on 0.99 and and I decided to take the About Me widget to a level I had never intended. If you have used it before, you’re used to seeing this configuration interface: I had originally intended to design a widget that would allow a user to enter a path to an image, a few [...]
WordPress 2.0.5 released
I was looking at this one as a real yawner. I consider myself almost obsessive about updating but I was going to take a pass on this one. Then, I saw this was fixed, and I thought wot the hell… So I copied all the files over, just dumped them right on top of my [...]
WordPress Theme: missunderstood
This is the release of the missunderstood theme, originally designed by Will Rossiter. This is a dark theme, with a slightly girlish touch (that’s not pink!). See a live demo here. The sidebar is fixed (static), but the header and content-area are fluid to accommodate different sized screens/browsers. I included the WordPress Theme Toolkit by [...]
The future of WordPress is 2.1
And it looks good! As of this post it’s around 50% done (I prefer to think of that as half-full, thankyouverymuch). I have been testing the alpha and love it. Often when answering questions about WP I find myself writing “Go here and just click on this…” only to realize it’s not available in 2.0.4. [...]
WordPress theme: Corporate Slave
Here is a newsletter-style 2-column with sidebar theme for WordPress which allows some control over which categories are displayed in each column. I included the WordPress Theme Toolkit by Ozh for user-friendliness. This theme is a modified version of Corporate Slave, by dreamLogic . For style and functionality I have included some plugins: HotDates by [...]
WordPress Tools and Resources
Over the past few months I have come across an enormous amount of resources and tools for every aspect of working with WordPress. This is another one of the benefits of Open Source (a large number of contributors), however the down side can be that there’s no central ‘management’ or quality control over these. It [...]
WordPress Troubleshooting: Finished installation and it doesn’t work!
This article was inspired by the fact that WordPress downloads recently passed the 1,000,000 mark. There are some very common problems that pop-up frequently on the WordPress Support Forums that can stop an installation dead in it’s tracks. This is my attempt at covering these issues while still relying on the WordPress codex. To provide [...]
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Quick look at WordPress issues in July:
WordPress 2.0.4 was released on the 29th. With over 60 bugs squashed since 2.0.3 (including what little substantive portion there was of Dr. Doom’s(sic) “OMG-The-Sky-Is-Falling” reference) this is the most secure, stable release or WordPress. Upgrade now. Shh. Zip it! Just do it. In addition, Mark Jaquith has posted a 2.0.3 > 2.0.4 changed/diff list [...]
