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dilw 0.6 is out
This release adds a call for templates (inside your template, write echo get_dil();).
WordPress plugin as a library
Many people don’t know that a WordPress plugin can be used as an easy way to store functions ready to be called within themes, other plugins or directly inside a post/page (using Exec-PHP); if you need strings inside your functions, to avoid ob_start problems, don’t use echo.
CMSes as enhanced frameworks
Though Joomla and WordPress indirectly pay most of my bills, now and then there are still customers who ask me to write a webapp from scratch: nowadays of course “from scratch” doesn’t mean anymore starting from a blank file; we are in the MVC/Active record pattern era and, although it’s still not mandatory, the use [...]
Calf-Point 0.4 is out
This release adds a modified version of Iconize (thanks to Maurizio for having tuned the CSS files).
stardust-v12-it2 is out
Piccolo aggiornamento di stardust (it) con la correzione di un problema sul link della favicon (grazie a corlo).
Calf-Point 0.3 is out
This release adds the previously missing custom menu.
Customising wp-comments-post.php
It could be due to my ignorance but I find odd that WordPress templates rarely offer a customised way to show the comment’s output when the users forget to fill a field (or they fill it wrongly). Usually, they simply call wp-comments-post.php that shows quite a poor output.
I’ve tried to go over this problem with [...]
Highlighting a recent post
I was asked to modify the way the “recent entries” widget shows its posts… the problem was to force the native WordPress widget to show a class=”something” for a post in the list (in case the post was exactly the one showed within single.php).
Starting from the original code, I could have written a widget instead [...]
Calf-Point
After a short dialogue with Will Wilkins on his forum, I’ve turned, as an exercise, the Moo-Point WordPress theme into a child theme of Sandbox.
According to the Urban Dictionary, the definition of moo point is
a cow’s opinion, it doesn’t matter
Naming “Calf” the child version of “Moo” was an obvious consequence. :)
It was not possible to [...]
dilw 0.5 is out
This release adds links to the original websites.