Widget Voodoo 1.0.2 Release
A minor update of Hackadelic Widget Voodoo is out. It fixes an issue with the Tag Cloud widget (and probably with others, too).
At the same time, I’ve corrected an “impurity” in the assignment of CSS classes, where the “collapsible” was attached to the title, instead the widget itself. Please change your CSS clauses Read more >>
Widget Voodoo Configuration Tutorial Reanimation Attempt
According to feedback I’ve received, viewing the Widget Voodoo Configuration Tutorial was apparently problematic. I’m not even sure if anybody at all could watch the screencast, except myself. (I’m afraid that could well have been the case, though only view people complained, compared to the number of visitors.)
While the reasons for the issue remain a mystery, I decided to move the screencast away from googlecode, where I used to host it before.
Dear visitors, I’ll ask you for a favor. Please drop me a note whether you can watch the screencast or not. Thank you for your help.
Shadowchase Continued – Is There A Bug In PHP Regular Expression Handling?
The recent “Shadowchaser Release” of Sliding Notes brought – among other features – compatibility with the “Shadowbox JS” plugin.
I’ve just came across another shadow-something1 that seemed to cause trouble.
I investigated the issue, and I’ve found out some interesting things.
- Anything that uses the Shadowbox.js script [↩]
Widget Voodoo CSS Selectors Power
I’m writing this post with a clear sense of pride about having chosen CSS selectors as “configuration syntax” for Widget Voodoo. The power and flexibility of the approach over other other, more limitting approaches is amazing.
Thank to this power, it was a “piece of cake” to resolve a help request on how to collapse al widgets at oncel I’ve got recently.
Widget Voodoo PlugIn Released
I’m proud to present the first public release of the “voodoo” that recently made all my sidebar widgets collapsible.
The plugin homepage gives a thorough overview of the features offered.
Downloads as usual at wordpress.org (as soon as they update the page).
Widgets Mass-Collapse
Recently, saintneko asked me whether it is better to implement a certain functionality as a plugin, or to theme it. The functionality in question is making sidebar widgets collapsible.
A seemingly simple question, but, as is often the case with “simple” questions, one with no simple answer at all.
Sliding Notes HowTo’s – Adding An Image To The Button
The other day I posted about the side-effect when the slider title is formated directly, therewith effectively inserting HTML tags into it. Instead I suggested using CSS to format the title.
CSS also comes in handy for adding an image» to the slider button.
This is how it is done:
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Hackadelic Series 1.1.1 Bugfix Release: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
This release is a quick fix for a silly bug in the front-end, due to which the series drop-down menu had erroneously links to included unpublished posts (clicking on which would have resulted in a “404 page not found” error for a user with insufficient privileges to view such posts – that is, non-admin users basically).
Now unpublished posts are hidden from “normal” visitors, and shown in italic to users with edit privilege.
The back-end still shows every entry in a series, but I changed the formatting to match the above semantics.
Naturally, this immediately leads to the question: What about multi-user blogs, where not every user may be given permission to adjust custom fields. I will address this in a future release.
Sliding Notes Self Aid – Overcoming Theme Footer Defects
Recently, I’ve posted about a theme defect in PassionDuo and other DailyBlogTips’ themes, and identified their failure to trigger the wp_footer action as the real cause of malfunction of plugins that depend on it, like Sliding Notes.
As it turns out, there’s a number of other themes out there which apparently have the same defect. Read more >>
Sliding Notes 1.4 – Shadowchaser Release
I’m announcing a new release of my Sliding Notes plugin. It resolves a CSS conflict with Shadowbox JS , another popular WordPress plugin (hence the release name). At the same time, with this release I’m relieving the user from housekeeping the CSS parts that are vital to Sliding Notes function, but unrelated to its visual appearance.
