cdcstudios.com | portfolio v8.1

Introduction

Welcome to the online portfolio and musings of Chris O’Rourke a all around geek residing in beautiful Portland Oregon. You can find a little of everything usually present in my mind and what thoughts I have on designers and designs that inspire me. You can check out examples of my design work as well as a monthly free wallpaper in a variety of sizes. The links pages will offer links to excellent technical resources and informational sites. If you’re looking for a standards based designer who will give you cost effective solutions then you’ve come to the right place.
This site is running on:

• A heftily modified WordPress basic framework.
• Mint from Shaun Inman.
• A Healthy amount of compliant Xhtml.
• An even healthier amount of CSS.
• There are 38 plugins used: 31 active plugins and 7 inactive plugins.

The last WordPress theme I used was a custom written theme called cdcreboot in honor of the initial CSS Reboot in May 2005. As I change the look of the site throughout the coming year I’ll eventually be cleaning up and releasing each theme I’ve developed as a free download in the soon to launch downloads section. There’s a lot of other tweaks and snippets of code from a variety of resources and inspirations on the net running under the hood but suffice it to say the site is running on a zero-hack, cleanly coded semantically marked up framework. Thanks go out to those who inspired it and those who’ve complimented it.

Big update! I haven’t had any dev time really since my 2nd son was born, so I’ve retired my old theme and am now using a heavily modified version of itheme from N. Design Studios. When I have some freetime I’ll be cleaning up and releasing cdcreboot to the masses, although it’ll have widget support finally (large part of the reason I am temporarily abandoning it).

I’ll soon be adding in a few additional plugins that I’ve either modified or written myself as well adding in the theme/template downloads section. In the meantime here’s the full list of plugins I use on this site.

Plugins Used

  µMint Plugin 0.4
» Christopher O'Connell (url)
Automatically adds the required mint tracking informatino without any fat. Requires Mint

  Akismet 2.3.0
» Automattic (url)
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need an API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template. See also: WP Stats plugin.

  AVH Amazon 3.3.1
» Peter van der Does (url)
This plugin gives you the abillity to add multiple widgets which will display one or more random item(s) from your Amazon wishlist, baby registry and/or wedding registry. It also has the ability to show items, with their link, in posts and pages by use of shortcode.

  cforms 10.1
» Oliver Seidel (url)
cformsII offers unparalleled flexibility in deploying contact forms across your blog. Features include: comprehensive SPAM protection, Ajax support, Backup & Restore, Multi-Recipients, Role Manager support, Database tracking and many more. Please see the VERSION HISTORY for what’s new and current bugfixes.

  Clean Archives Reloaded 3.1.10
» Viper007Bond (url)
A slick, Javascript-enhanced post archive list generator for WordPress 2.5+.

  Custom Admin Branding 2.0
» Josh Byers (url)
Allows you to brand your WordPress install for clients. Display custom images and styles for the login screen, admin header and footer.

  Custom TinyMCE 1.3
» Rilwis (url)
Customize TinyMCE buttons

  FD Feedburner Plugin 1.42
» John Watson (url)
Redirects all feeds to a Feedburner feed

  Google XML Sitemaps 3.2.4
» Arne Brachhold (url)
This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog.

  IntenseDebate 2.8
» IntenseDebate & Automattic (url)
IntenseDebate Comments enhance and encourage conversation on your blog or website. Full comment and account data sync between IntenseDebate and WordPress ensures that you will always have your comments. Custom integration with your WordPress admin panel makes moderation a piece of cake. Comment threading, reply-by-email, user accounts and reputations, comment voting, along with Twitter and friendfeed integrations enrich your readers’ experience and make more of the internet aware of your blog and comments which drives traffic to you! To get started, please activate the plugin and adjust your IntenseDebate settings .

  iPhone Webclip Manager 0.5
» Chris O'Rourke (url)
Adds a webclip icon to your headers.

  iWPhone 0.1.2
» ContentRobot (url)
A plugin and theme for WordPress that automatically reformats your blog’s content for optimized viewing on Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch.

  Lifestream 0.99.9.6
» David Cramer (url)
Displays your activity from various social networks. (Requires PHP 5 and MySQL 5)

  Mint Bird Feeder Mod 0.8
» Jared Bangs (url)
Mint Bird Feeder

  openxwpwidget 1.2.5
» Heiko Weber, heiko@wecos.de (url)
Sidebar-Widget, display a banner in a sidebar and replace magics {openx:zoneid} with calls to a openx adserver

  Popularity Contest 2.0b2
» Crowd Favorite (url)
This will enable ranking of your posts by popularity; using the behavior of your visitors to determine each post’s popularity. You set a value (or use the default value) for every post view, comment, etc. and the popularity of your posts is calculated based on those values. Once you have activated the plugin, you can configure the Popularity Values and View Reports. You can also use the included Widgets and Template Tags to display post popularity and lists of popular posts on your blog.

  Quick Flickr Widget 1.2.10
» Konstantin Kovshenin (url)
Display up to 20 of your latest Flickr submissions in your sidebar.

  Smart Update Pinger 1.2
» Christian Davén (url)
Replaces the built-in ping/notify functionality. Pings only when publishing new posts, not when editing.

  Sociable 3.5.2
» Blogplay (url)
Automatically add links on your posts, pages and RSS feed to your favorite social bookmarking sites.

  Social Links 1.0.11
» Kareem Sultan (url)
Social Links is a sidebar widget that displays icon links to your profile pages on other social networking sites.

  tagaroo 1.4
» Crowd Favorite and Reuters (url)
Find and suggest tags and photos (from Flickr) for your content. Integrates with the Calais service.

  Theme Test Drive 2.7.4
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
Safely test drive any theme while visitors are using the default one. Includes instant theme preview via thumbnail.

  To Do List 1.3.1
» David Gwyer (url)
Keep track of your daily tasks and activities. Create a to-do list for every user, so no excuse to remember that important post, or page. From v1.3, you can now use TinyMCE editor to format your list!

  Twitter Tools 2.3.1
» Alex King (url)
A complete integration between your WordPress blog and Twitter. Bring your tweets into your blog and pass your blog posts to Twitter. Show your tweets in your sidebar, and post tweets from your WordPress admin.

  WP-DBManager 2.50
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Manages your Wordpress database. Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up and optimizing of database.

  WP-PluginsUsed 1.50
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.

  WPaudio 2.2.0
» Todd Iceton (url)
Play mp3s and podcasts in your posts by converting links and tags into a simple, customizable audio player.

  WP Greet Box 6.0.8
» Thaya Kareeson (url)
Show a different message to your visitor depending on which site they are coming from. For example, you can ask Digg visitors to Digg your post, Google visitors to subscribe to your RSS feed, and more! Best of all, this plugin is compatible with various WordPress cache plugins.

  WPing.FM 1.0
» Eddy De Clercq (url)
Updates Ping.FM when you create, edit, or update a blog post. Based upon the Microblog Updater and inspired by PingPress.fm.

  WP Super Cache 0.9.9.3
» Donncha O Caoimh (url)
Very fast caching plugin for WordPress.

  Yet Another Related Posts Plugin 3.1.8
» mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine) (url)
Returns a list of related entries based on a unique algorithm for display on your blog and RSS feeds. A templating feature allows customization of the display.

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