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Working on a new theme called WordCult

By Austin On March 5, 2009 36 Comments

So I have been really busy, and haven’t been able to put up a new post since I got back from WordCamp Denver. WordCult Screenshot

WordCult Screenshot

Working on some clients site’s and also a WordPress theme!

I have finished about 80% of the theme which is based off my current theme located on my personal blog site: TheFrosty. TheFrosty is using version 0.1 of the theme, which has many faults and bugs. I have fixed many of them, and probably added a few others.

In version 0.2 I’ve

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WordCamp Denver 2009 Boradcast

By Austin On February 27, 2009 No Comments

Well hello to everyone, hope you are going to have a great weekend! I am heading to Denver Colorado tonight for the first WordCamp. I have decided to help out some here a bit, and I will be using my web cam to broadcast live inside the Denver Art Museum. Plus I am video recording with my HDD camera, so that someone can put all the video together in the end and publish it to WordPress TV

Morning Update:

Looks like there is not a

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The New Theme at WPCult

By Austin On February 23, 2009 6 Comments

Well, I spent the last 6 hours updating the new theme into the site. Please let me know what you think. There will still be a few more updates, so please be patient. Click here to continue reading



A new look for wpcult

By Austin On February 23, 2009 No Comments

I have been really busy on putting together a custom theme for this site. And while I do love WooThemes’s THiCK Theme by Matt Brett, I feel that a custom theme suited to the sites needs would fit better.

Things to expect to come the WPCult:

  1. A new custom theme built on Justin Tadlocks, Hybrid Theme.
  2. A forum.
  3. New Advertisement locations and application, with really cheap & low prices.

I hope you are as exited as

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WP Cult attending WordCamp Denver 2009

By Austin On February 9, 2009 2 Comments

It is official, today I purchased my ticket for WordCamp Denver! I as well as Jeana from Jeana Says, will be flying out to Colorado! Now all we need to do is find a place to stay.. Click here to continue reading



How to: Show/Hide any div box with jQuery in WordPress

By Austin On February 2, 2009 38 Comments

If you take a look at my current sidebar (right) and see the heading Google Search you’ll notice that when you click it the Google Search box show’s into view.

Let me show you how this is done.

First make sure that your WordPress site is calling jQuery, buy pluggin this code into our header.php file above the <?php wp_head(); ?> text:

<?php wp_enqueue_script('jquery'); ?>

Then anywhere above the </head >, plug this code in:

<script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(document).ready(function() { // hides the slickbox as soon as the DOM is ready jQuery('#toggle-search').hide(); // toggles the slickbox on clicking the notedClick here to continue reading


How to: Limiting the posts in you archive widget

By Austin On January 31, 2009 1 Comment

I have show you how to create a custom widget in a previous post. But how about adding and additional “Archives” widget that won’t list the last 3 years (if you’ve been around that long) in month form stretching down your whole sidebar?

Well, lets take a look at the original code found in the widgets.php file in the ./wp-includes/ folder.

<?php /** * Display archives widget. * * @since 2.2.0 * * @param array $args Widget arguments. */ function wp_widget_archives($args) { extract($args); $options = get_option('widget_archives'); $c = $options['count'] ? '1' : '0'; $d = $options['dropdown'] ? '1' : '0'; $title = empty($options['title']) ? __('Archives') : apply_filters('widget_title', $options['title']); echoClick here to continue reading


January 28th declared plugin developer day

By Austin On January 28, 2009 No Comments

Today Matt Mullenweg from MA.TT declared today official plugin developer day because the plugin directory hit 4,000 plugins, check it out: 4,000 Plugins.

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cforms II now GPL compliant

By Austin On January 26, 2009 1 Comment

Well, it was a long run, ok, only 24 hours when Mr. Seidel’s announced that he would pull the plug on further updates to the cforms plugin.

But after consideration and many emails, he has released a update to a GPL compliant version of his plugin: 10.2. Click here to continue reading



Goodbye to cforms II

By Austin On January 25, 2009 No Comments

If you are using the cforms II, you may want to head over to Mr. Seidel’s site for more info on the matter. Click here to continue reading



Revolution Two: Agent Theme

By Austin On January 22, 2009 No Comments

Benefits include the Agent theme, unlimited theme support answered by our experts, customization techniques with our detailed theme tutorials and professional design services available by our list of recommended designers.

Revolution 2: Album Theme

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The WordPress Logo

By Austin On January 18, 2009 No Comments

For your information. The WordPress fonts are as follows: the old WP logo was Dante, the new one is Mrs. Eaves. You can also find the correct logo’s on WordPress.org. Click here to continue reading



OIO Publisher & Mac

By Austin On January 12, 2009 No Comments

I just want to make a quick announcement that the OIO Publisher plugin is an awesome and powerful tool for advertisement’s controled by you!

But I upgraded my girls site JeanaSay.com to the latest WordPress 2.7 and already had the latest OIO install.

Anyway it didn’t work in the Mac environment under Safari, we couldn’t log in to the regular wp-admin and got a pop up of database entry’s missing..

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Winner: Free Revolution Theme

By Austin On January 11, 2009 2 Comments

I was just sitting in the back listening to Shayne Sanderson from Insctinct, who talked about their e-commerce plugin and a new plugin that released today.. Once he finished, Jason dug his hand in the ticket bucket and my ticket was called. I won a Pro Revolution Theme Pack from Brian Gardner.

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Wierd custom fields

By Austin On January 11, 2009 1 Comment

I am not sure if this is from a pluigin error. But I suddenly have custom field names “atfemail_” and random letters and digits @ random numbers and digits dot com.

hmm.. Any idea’s? I think it may be from the subscribe to comments plugin. Click here to continue reading