Tag Archives: Flickr

Bing Maps Photosynth Mashup

By Dougal | Published: February 12, 2010

I’ve always been a big fan of Google Maps. . [...]

Posted in Tech | Also tagged 3d, bing maps, creative commons, google maps, mapping, Mashups, Microsoft, photographs, Photography, photosynth, seadragon, silverlight, streetview | 1 Comment

As promised in my previous post on WordPress 2.9 features, this post will be a demonstration of the super easy media embeds coming in WordPress 2.9. What I find particularly interesting and useful about the new embedding feature, and oEmbed in particular, is that it is truly multimedia. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged content, embeds, features, images, Media, multimedia, oembed, shortcode, videos, WordPress | 35 Comments

WordPress 2.9 Features

By Dougal | Published: October 16, 2009

This site is now running on WordPress 2.9-rare (which is our “pre-alpha” designation, for those of you who don’t know). WP 2.9 is in “feature freeze”, which means no new features will be considered for this version, and the developers will concentrate on finishing up the existing new features and any outstanding bugs. So far, it appears that all of my plugins are working just fine.

The main new features I’ve actually seen so far are the addition of the “Post Thumbnail” box in the writing screen, the new “trash” status for posts, pages, and comments, and the image editor in the Media Library. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged alpha, Beta, cms, content management, content types, Development, embeds, features, hulu, images, Media, Metadata, oembed, Plugins, qik, testing, Themes, thumbnails, viddler, vimeo, viper, viper007bond, Widgets, WordPress, youtube | 82 Comments

WordPress themes for developers

By Dougal | Published: October 29, 2008

This is the article that I had originally intended to post last week, before I suffered a self-induced glitch which caused me to lose my work-in-progress. Thanks to my friend Geof Morris who prompted me to double-check my database for saved revisions. As it turns out, there was indeed a revision stored there which did not show up in the list of revisions given in the editor. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged .net, agregado, API, app, Atom, carrington, child themes, CrowdFavorite, CSS, delicious, facebook, last.fm, PHP, primepress, Sandbox, SEO, social networking sites, thematic, Themes, twitter, web developer, WordPress, wordpress 2.7, yahoo | 43 Comments

Update on WordPress blog APIs

By Dougal | Published: June 30, 2008

I mentioned previously that the XML-RPC and Atom blog APIs would be disabled by default when WordPress 2.6 is released. This was a matter of some debate within the community, and there has been some clarification:

The APIs will not be automatically disabled for sites upgrading from older versions. [...]

Posted in Announcements, Atom, Blogging, Community, WordPress | Also tagged API, Atom, AtomPub, Beta, delicious, posting, Services, tools, WordPress, xml-rpc, xmlrpc | 30 Comments

New theme, same as the old theme

By Dougal | Published: October 16, 2007

I’ve done some minor maintenance around here. Can you spot the differences? Probably not. What I’ve done is upgraded my old Sandbox 0.6.1 theme to the new 1.0 version, and made a few minor adjustments to my CSS to account for the differences. Visually, there’s not a whole heck of a lot of difference between the current theme and the previous version, other than the addition of tags to the post metadata.

Speaking of tags, I’ve mentioned before that I had been using the WordPress category system more like a tagging system, and that I regretted that decision. [...]

Posted in Semantics, Themes, WordPress | Also tagged categories, CSS, delicious, Metadata, Sandbox, SemanticWeb, tagging, Tags, WordPress | 11 Comments

WordPress 2.2 Delayed

By Dougal | Published: April 19, 2007

A while back, the WordPress development team decided to aim for date-targeted, quarterly releases, to speed up the development cycle. One of the main things this does is to give more frequent updates, but with fewer “big” new features in each release. The target for WordPress 2.2 was set for around April 23.

One of the new features in WordPress 2.2 is ‘tags’. For any of you who still don’t know what tags are, they are basically keywords that you can put on posts. [...]