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wordpress themes + drei null

Published on June 19, 2010 in Themes and Wordpress. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Unsere FreundInnen von espiv.net, die auch eine wp-mu installation betreiben, haben sich ja ein bisschen gewundert, warum wir nur ein einziges Theme anbieten. Das wurde jetzt mal geändert, ich habe ein paar neue Themes hochgeladen:

  • p2
  • The Erudite
  • thematic
  • Twenty Ten

Letzteres kam mit dem neuen WordPress, Version 3.0. Da lässt sich jetzt auch ein neues Headerbild einbauen und so. Bis das so richtig geht, müsst ihr aber noch kurz warten, bis wir auf 3.0 hochgehen. Ich bin mir ja nicht so sicher, ob das wirklich alles so reibungslos läuft. Vielleicht erstmal auf das nächste Maintenance Release warten.

Wenn ihr Themes findet, die ihr gerne hättest, bitte kurze Ansage. Auch, wenn es Probleme mit den Themes gibt (wenn zum Beispiel die Webstatistik nicht mehr geht).

p2 könnt ihr euch bspw mal hier anschauen.

OpenID enabled on blogs

Published on April 8, 2010 in Plugins and Wordpress. 0 Comments Tags: .

Today, we have added OpenID support to the blogs. While the whole concept of OpenID is a bit difficult to explain, let me just try to highlight what it actually means in every day life.

There is one problem on the web (actually, there are many, but let’s stick to this particularily annoying one): Whereever you go, you need to register, you need to pick a new username, and password, and so on. With OpenID, it means you can use your blog login at ALL OpenID enabled sites. As long as you are logged into your blog, you won’t need to authenticate at other sites. This probably still sounds complex, but we will be using it in a particular way: Over the year, we will add services to antira.info. Usually, you would need to pick new username and password again, but with OpenID, you can just use your blog. That helps us to maintain the user base in one database, and helps you that you don’t need to juggle with several logins.

We’ll get back to this in due time…

wordpress updated

Published on January 25, 2010 in Wordpress. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Just to let you know: We upgraded the system to the current version of wordpress-mu. If you experience any problems, let us know! Happy blogging otherwise.

There is some new stuff available in your blogs now. Read this post to find out all about it. The most noteworthy should be the easy embedding of videos. Like here:

All you do is take the url and paste it on a separate line. It gets converted into the video automagically. Support so far for:

YouTube, Daily Motion, Blip.tv, Flickr, Hulu, Viddler, Qik, Revision3, Scribd, Google Video, Photobucket, PollDaddy, and WordPress.tv

slimbox enabled by default

Published on January 17, 2010 in Themes. 1 Comment Tags: , , .

For all the blogs on antira.info, and for that point jogspace.net as well, and that are using either K2 or K2 nightly build, I enabled the slimbox. That is that nifty little javascript that opens images in such a nice way.

The best thing about it: You don’t need to do anything. As soon as you post a link to an image, it is immediately lightbox’ified automagically.

Example:
admin_mourning

Statistics galore

Published on January 17, 2010 in Plugins and Server. 0 Comments Tags: , .

New feature: we added a statistics programme to the services running on antira.info. If you get into your blog, in the dashboard, you find a new entry, WP-Piwik, where you can see all sorts of information about the visitors to your blog.

Initially, there were some problems setting the Plugin up, but I believe they should have been overcome by now.

A quick note on themes

Published on January 16, 2010 in Themes and Wordpress. 0 Comments Tags: .

Just to get started, to show that we are actually doing something and to encourage feedback and questions, here a quick note on themes.

So far, we are not really providing a lot of themes, actually it is that old Kubrick that comes bundled with wordpress, and two flavours of K2. We keep it this way so far because we haven’t found other good themes so far, but feel free to point some out to us. We are however looking for easy customization, support of the wp_footer() call and like the idea of custom css files.

Anyway, if you are switching to K2, as stated above, there are two flavours. We have the 1.0.2 stable version, and we also track the nightly builds, that is the bleeding edge version the K2 team provides. You can use either, use the former for stability and the latter for experimentation. Latter might however brake things from time to time. That is the deal with bleeding edge.