Tag Archives: Sandbox

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, Flickr, last.fm, PHP, primepress, SEO, social networking sites, thematic, Themes, twitter, web developer, WordPress, wordpress 2.7, yahoo | 43 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, Flickr, Metadata, SemanticWeb, tagging, Tags, WordPress | 11 Comments

Sandbox Design Competition Winners

By Dougal | Published: August 7, 2007

The Sandbox Designs Competition is over, and the results are in. The overall winner was the Sandpress theme. That theme was one of my favorites. When I get a few minutes to back through them again, I’ll try to write up my list of favorites, and what I like and dislike about each theme.

All in all, there were some very nice designs in the competition. I could tell that the designers all put a lot of work into their designs. . [...]

Posted in CSS, Design, Web Design, Whatever, WordPress | Tagged Sandbox | 7 Comments

Sandbox Designs Competition: deadline approaching

By Dougal | Published: July 9, 2007

I’ve mentioned the Sandbox theme for WordPress a couple of times before, but I’ve neglected to point out the Sandbox Designs Competition that is going on right now. A few weeks ago, the total prize money stood at over $1600, with 1st prize netting $750.

Sandbox has a really good structure, with lots of semantic classes (and microformats) added at key points. [...]

Posted in CSS, Design, Microformats, Web Design, WordPress | Also tagged CSS, WordPress | 6 Comments

OpenID News

By Dougal | Published: February 13, 2007

Since my WordPress upgrade and theme change, the OpenID sign-on functionality here has been a little iffy. I think I’ve got all the kinks worked out now, and it should be working correctly again. There seems to be a buglet in the functions that attempt to automagically add the OpenID login fields to the comment form. So I had to disable that option and manually edit my comment template file to insert the appropriate bits. I don’t like having to modify the theme files (it’s going to make it harder to upgrade when a new version of Sandbox comes out), but that was my best solution, short-term.

In other news, Microsoft is working on interoperability between OpenID and their CardSpace™ framework. [...]

Posted in Microformats, OpenID, Services, Standards, Tech, Themes, WordPress | Also tagged FOAF, hCard, Identity, Microsoft, PHP, plugin, SingleSignOn, SSO, Web, WordPress, yahoo | 4 Comments

Reinvigorated

By Dougal | Published: February 7, 2007

Reinvigorate’s Hourly Stats

About a year-and-a-half ago, I wrote about how the Reinvigorate web stats service was entering a private beta, and I hoped to get a chance to try it out. I applied to the private beta program and waited. And waited. [...]

Posted in Blogs, Services, Software, WordPress | Also tagged Beta, Google, Statistics, this-site, Web | 15 Comments

Upgraded

By Dougal | Published: February 5, 2007

Okay, I think things are finally (more-or-less) back in shape around here. Sorry about the problems you might encountered here over the past few days. I finally upgraded this site to WordPress 2.1, but I encountered some problems along the way. The problems were really indirectly related to the upgrade, and turned out to be my own dumb fault.

On Friday, I decided to use my lunch hour to perform the upgrade. I backed up my database and my wp-content directory, deleted all the old WP files (I traditionally haven’t bothered with that step, but I knew that several files were renamed/outdated, and I wanted to do some general housecleaning anyhow), installed the new ones, and upgraded the database schema via wp-admin/upgrade.php. [...]

Posted in Announcements, Blogs, Personal, Plugins, Themes, WordPress | Also tagged Amazon, PHP, plugin, Plugins, Spam, this-site, Upgrades, WordPress | 8 Comments

Upgrade Imminent

By Dougal | Published: January 30, 2007

I’ve spent some time converting my Rockem Sockem theme to a Sandbox skin, and getting my Now Playing hack converted into a sidebar widget. I’m more-or-less happy with the results, so I’ll be throwing the switch sometime soon. Be on the lookout for changes around here, and let me know if you spot anything broken.