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Introducing MooDash

// May 15th, 2006 // 2 Comments » // Wordpress

I’ve been looking at my dashboard and wanting it to be basically remain the same but in a much smaller/manageable way.

With the recent release of my moo.fx archive plugin (CDC Clean Archives) I thought it would be handy to have the dashboard use the same functions.

This WordPress plugin was written with the ajax like moo.fx libraries found at: moofx.mad4milk.net. In addition to that, the excellent #wordpress channel on freenode irc for any advice/suggestions I got.

It’s not the most technically advanced plugin but I do have other enhancements in mind that will integrate this plugin with 3 or 4 other plugins to really make the dashboard be the nerve central of the wordpress admin section.

Tragically it does require replacing the actual index.php in the wp-admin folder (although you can modify the file yourself for security if you’d like by simply using the included index.php as a template for what needs changed).

Anyways to install this plugin all you need to do is upload the Moodash folder into your plugins folder and then copy the included index.php into your wp-admin folder and then activate the plugin.


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CDC Clean Archives updated

// May 10th, 2006 // 4 Comments » // Wordpress

So now that I’m back from my trip and getting caught up on work I also got caught up on my email where quite a few people requested a simpler version of the clean Archives plugin.
Well after a bit of work, some coding and a few well placed questions in #wordpress on irc and version .60 is ready :D
Now all of the moo.fx scripts are called by the cdc_clean_archives() function and automatically added in. You’ll still need to actually add the actual accordion script to the header as specified in the readme but the rest of the plugin is much faster.

Simple download the plugin and then follow the simple instructions.

Download the CDC Clean Archives

Clean Archives Plugin rewrite

// April 25th, 2006 // 12 Comments » // Wordpress

So I’ve been using the SRG Clean Archives for just about the entire time my site has run on wordpress.

I love it but was noticing that the page was starting to run a little long. Since my recent infatuation with the moo.fx libraries knows no bounds I decided adding a little ajax styling would be just the thing to make my archives hold all the data but not require too much scrolling.

Anyways here’s the link to the plugin and a quick read me on how to get it working.

Download CDC Clean Archives plugin

Upgraded to WordPress 2.02

// March 23rd, 2006 // Comments Off // Wordpress

So after 3 months of putting it off and being overwhelmed with a myriad number of projects, I’ve taken the initiative in creating an internet er I mean upgrading WordPress to version 2.02. I’d expected to need a few hours to do this and check over everything but after following the 4 steps recommended (backing up, disabling plugins, etc) I uploaded the new files and 7 minutes later (hooray for fast ftp speeds) was sitting at my normal happy dashboard :D

Now all I need to do is fix Falbum as well as tweak a few other things and I can relax with the backend of this thing.

Now that I’ve got this done I can start working on the 3 themes I’ve got planned. One will be just for my usuage but the other 2 will go up for grabs. This will bring my custom theme creation number to a whopping 5 (counting the current recycled theme as well as the theme I made for Tamara Weikel).

Other than that I’ve got about 50 other things to get done today including hopefully finally moving the “recent captivations” portion of the sidebar over to the del.icio.us links plugin I forgot the name of and then possibly updating a few other things.

So far I’m absolutely in love with the spiffy AJAX interface for posting although it would be nice to be able to minimize the uploads box since I rarely use that function of WordPress.

Reboot edition launch of cdc|studios

// April 30th, 2005 // Comments Off // Webdesign, Wordpress

cssrebootWell after a few different rough layouts that had differing levels of completion I am quite happy to say that the “reboot” edition created for the May 1st Reboot & CSS Reboot is complete.

I started off with a page that was moderately easy to update and 100% css/xhtml compliant but completely lacking an integrated anything. After deciding to use wordpress as the main software on my site (woo aren’t I trendy?) I sat down and took a look at the sites that inspire me most and what I wanted out of my site. I’m pretty sure I covered everything I want for the public side at the moment. Although I do look forward to an integrated blogroll plugin that works similarly to del.icio.us at some point.

Next up on my plate is to start working on an integrated client area for the private side as well as to work on the “hopefully soon to launch” Gallery 2 install (that’ll happen once I finish familiarizing the template system and backend of G2. Sometime before or after that (see how precise my timing can be?) I’ll most likely be revamping the entire backend of this site again in preparation for the styleswitcher and the 2nd stylesheet (which has a working title of “Sonata”). That stylesheet will require some hefty backend javascripting but will be quite worth it in the end.

Finally before I wrap this initial first post up I’d like to thank the following designers/sites for inspiring me to create this site.

Thanks again and I hope you enjoy my site

Peace,

Chris

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