Hackadelic on May 21st, 2009

Whew! It was a hard nut to crack, but here it is: The first public beta of Hackadelic Multiblog Kit, or VMBKit vor short. With this plugin, and the great Virtual Multiblog system for WordPress, you can create blog farms1 with ease.

Blog Farms = Several blogs powered by the same WordPress code base. [↩]

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Hackadelic on May 14th, 2009

Hi everybody! I haven’t posted anything for a while now (been busy traveling and working), but I’m back with a new version of TOC boxes.

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Hackadelic on April 30th, 2009

Just a short update:
I’ve successfully managed to repair my blog and tweak it to the needs of Virtual MultiBlog. Though you don’t see any changes (I’ll tackle the intended theme change at a later time), this site is now powered by WP on Virtual MultiBlog. Yes sir! My quest for a multi-blog solution is [...]

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Hackadelic on April 23rd, 2009

Alea iacta est. The dice has been cast. I’m giving up on WPMU. Definitely. I will be using Virtual Multiblog instead. Definitely.

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Hackadelic on April 19th, 2009

After a couple of days (or hours, effectively) of experimenting with WordPress MU, the insights I gained about it are sobering at best. Here is my preliminary summary about WPMU.

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Hackadelic on April 16th, 2009

I plan on doing some fundamental changes to my site. Most importantly, I’ll switch away from WordPress… [A moment of unbearable silence drills though the audience, a moment that seems to extend to eternity... Will he stop developing those great WordPress plugins? Do we have to abstain from his fabulous, though sometimes unconventional, even weird [...]

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Hackadelic on April 14th, 2009

Sometimes you want a message or paragraph in your blog to stand out. Here’s a simple method how to do that easily and consistently throughout your blog.

jQuery(‘input[name=box]‘).change(function(){
var p = jQuery(‘#demo-box’);
p.toggleClass(this.value);
jQuery(‘#box-code’).text(”);
});

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Hackadelic on April 12th, 2009

Hackadelic TOC Boxes work in the sidebar as well. Out of the box. You can see a live demo on my blog by going to a post’s single view: The TOC box appears at the top of the left sidebar.1 This post here is a good example.
How I did it?

At least it’s at the top [...]

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Widget Voodoo morphs sidebar widgets into stylishly collapsible objects. The new release goes one step further in “stylishness” and adds support to variable styling of widget titles depending on the collapsed/expanded state of the widget.
A live example is right here on my blog – look for the “Archives” widget in my left sidebar.
Go ahead, get [...]

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Hackadelic on April 8th, 2009

TOC boxes are designed to be freely positioned in posts using a short code.
Recently, I’ve been approached with a request for instructions on an interesting use-case: Positioning a TOC box together with an image.
Here’s how I’d do it.

jQuery(function($){
$(‘input[type=radio][name=tocClassRadio]‘).change(function(){
var toc = $(‘.toc.demo-toc’);
$(‘input[type=radio][name=tocClassRadio]‘).each(function(index, elem){
[...]

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