Posts tagged ‘wordpress’

SimpleModal Contact Form (SMCF) 1.2.3 Released

Sunday, April 5th, 2009

Charles found an issue with the validation code – it was requiring a subject even when the subject field was disabled.

A fix has been made and uploaded to the WordPress plugin repository. You should see the update available shortly.

Thanks Charles!

For more information and the download, please visit the SMCF WordPress Plugin Page.

SimpleModal Contact Form (SMCF) 1.2.2 Released

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

SMCF 1.2.2 includes the following changes:

  • Upgraded SimpleModal to 1.2.3
  • Added addslashes() function for smcf_messages JavaScript object to prevent localization issues
  • Added stripslashes() function for the email message
  • Removed 70 character limit for wordwrap() function – defaults to 75
  • Added wp_page_menu() and wp_list_pages() filter to dynamically add smcf-link class to a contact menu link
  • Changed format of validation messages – requires translation updates

If you are using wp_list_pages() or wp_page_menu(), this release makes it a lot easier to use SMCF without having to modify any source files. All you need to do is enter the matching link title on the SMCF options page.

I’ve also modified the email message to use the default wordwrap of 75 characters and have removed the slashes added by magic_quotes.

Translators: Updates were made to the verbiage, so if you would be so kind to update your translations, I’d appreciate it!

For more information and the download, please visit the SMCF WordPress Plugin Page.

WordPress bug – duplicate page entries

Friday, December 26th, 2008

While working on a new site design, I found an interesting bug in WordPress 2.7. I created two new pages to use as “Front page displays”, one called Blog and one called Home. To create the pages, I clicked on Pages > Add New, entered a Title and clicked Publish.

I then went to my Reading Settings (Settings > Reading) and set the static Front and Posts page to the pages I just created. Going back to my site, I tested out the new static pages only to find they didn’t work.

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WordPress Pumpkin

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

Tired of carving the same ‘ol pumpkin every year, I thought I’d try something different this year. I free-handed the WordPress logo on the pumpkin then carefully carved it out.

WordPress Pumpkin set on Flickr.

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How To Create WordPress Themes From Scratch

Friday, July 18th, 2008

Even though my current design is fairly new, I’ve never been very happy with it. As a result, I recently started the process of designing a new WordPress Theme from scratch, and was planning on blogging about my experience.

While researching WordPress Theme tags and functions, I came accross a site called ThemeTation. Launched on June 5th, 2008 by Kai Loon, it is a well designed site that includes a WordPress related Weblog as well as free WordPress Themes (SuperFresh and Blue Blog).

What really caught my attention was the very informative series Kai Loon put together on creating a WordPress Theme from scratch. If you’ve ever considered taking on that challenge or are just interested in how WordPress Themes work, I suggest you take a look:

Part 1 – Structuring, Designing in Photoshop

Part 2 – Slicing and Coding

Part 3a – WordPress Implementation

Part 3b – WordPress Implementation cont.

Thanks Kai Loon!

CSS Naked Day 2008

Monday, April 7th, 2008

I’ve signed up to participate in the third annual CSS Naked Day, which will be celebrated on April 9th! For the entire day, my site will be without style!

If this is the first time you’ve heard of CSS Naked Day, it was started by Dustin Diaz to promote Web Standards:

“This includes proper use of (x)html, semantic markup, a good hierarchy structure, and of course, a good ‘ol play on words. It’s time to show off your <body>”

Are you brave enough to strip naked for a day?

Note: Only my content delivered through WordPress will be “naked”, the rest will be left “fully clothed”.

SimpleModal Contact Form (SMCF) 1.1 Released

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

SMCF 1.1 includes the following changes:

  • Fixed image pre-loading to actually pre-load ;)
  • Added new effects on form open and close
  • Added a security feature
  • Added optional subject and cc sender form elements
  • Added common classes to form elements
  • Renamed all classes and ID’s to prevent collisions
  • Added WordPress translation ability on text elements (__() and _e() functions)
  • Upgraded to SimpleModal v1.1.1 and jQuery 1.2.3
  • Moved SimpleModal and SMCF JavaScript file loading to the footer

For more information and the download, please visit the SMCF WordPress Plugin Page.

SimpleModal Contact Form (SMCF) 1.0 Released

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

SimpleModal Contact Form (SMCF) is an Ajax powered modal dialog contact form for WordPress.

The project and all of the information about it is hosted on WordPress.org.

If you have any feedback regarding the plugin, please let me know.