Posts tagged with: coding

After a lot of coding, deliberation and testing, I'm happy to reveal the "new and improved" (of course it's improved, else it wouldn't be a very good "new" product would it? ;-) ) lildude.co.uk. For those who only read my site via the feed, you'll have to pop by and have a look around. So what's changed? Well, first and foremost, I've migrated from Wordpress to Habari following pretty much the same procedure I used previously and documented: Migrating from Wordpress to Habari. At the same time I create a completely new speedy theme which I've entitled "BlackForest". I ... Continue reading ►

I haven't seen one of these Microsoft bashing videos in a long time...

Michael C Harris sent this out to the habari-users group earlier today, and I thought I'd post it here to try and spread the word a bit and build up a bit of momentum. Let's give a little push towards releasing 0.7, by doing one thing today to move Habari forward. Here's a list of things that you could do. Look at the list of tickets left in the 0.7 release and see if you can move one forward (comments, patches, commits, tests). See the list of tickets at https://trac.habariproject.org/habari/report/14. Improve the release notes, which can be found at ... Continue reading ►

Following the recent decision to finally pull finger and migrate this site across to Habari, I thought I'd look into using as much of the evolving HTML5 spec as I can, within the limits of what most browsers support. Now I'm going to admit that I've not read the whole spec (how much free time to you think I have? ) but I have glanced through the tags and seen there is a lot of new and potentially exciting stuff there. In this post I'm going to concentrate on the structural things I'm implementing. My blogs, like millions of others,... Continue reading ►

I've been using, contributing and hacking around Habari for some time now and I thought it's about time I started sharing my knowledge in a series of "Habari HOWTO" posts. This is the first in what will hopefully turn out to be a large valuable list for Habari users. This question was posed on the habari-users group by manda: I'm looking to set my home.php to show only 2 posts, but leave all other entry.multiple.php show whatever default number I set in Habari options (whether it be 5, 10 or 20). Is there something simple to add to home.php to... Continue reading ►

I've just released the next revision of HB-Cumulus - rev 1.5. This release now takes full advantage of the new tags functionality in the latest Habari SVN code and also now uses SWFObject 2.2 for the embedding in "non-compatibility" (ie the default) mode. All the other changes are minor and include things like better HTML validation, formatting of the code itself and an update to the tagcloud flash file itself. Downloads are on the HB-Cumulus project page. As this is a new release, I've closed comments on the 1.4 post. If you encounter any problems, please ensure you update ... Continue reading ►

Well, folks, it's taken a long time but I can now finally and proudly announce that my SmugMug Media Silo plugin for Habari is now available for download. The SmugMug Media Silo plugin implements a Habari media silo to access your SmugMug photos making it easy to insert images into posts and pages. You can also upload images directly to SmugMug from the Habari admin interface. You can find more details on what this plugin can do, and download it from the project page. If you encounter any problems, please feel free to let me know in this post and... Continue reading ►

Thanks to some good feedback and testing by the chaps in the Habari community, I've pushed out a small minor update to my HB Audio Player plugin which fixes some misbehaviour seen when your theme doesn't use a style.css file in the theme's base directory. From now on, HB Audio Player will only show a "Theme Colours" selection tool if it's managed to successfully locate a style.css file in your theme's base directory and it's found some colours in this file. I've also updated the download filename for the Habari SVN compatible release by using "svn" to indicate the Habari ... Continue reading ►

I've just pushed HB-Cumulus 1.4 out the door. There's no major changes, only a bit of code tidying and I've now also made released a version that is compatible with Habari SVN (which will become 0.7 one day) which uses a new plugin architecture. Downloads are on the HB-Cumulus project page. As this is a new release, I've closed comments on the 1.3 post. If you encounter any problems, please ensure you update to rev 1.4 and if the problem still exists, leave a comment here.

It's taken me a little over a year to put all my soldiers in a row and finally migrate my personal blog from Wordpress to Habari. This long delay really had nothing to do with Habari or Wordpress, but rather my pedantic desires, constantly changing ideas and the need for me to come up with my own Habari equivalents of Wordpress specific plugins. I also wanted to create my own theme from scratch. In this post I'll detail the steps I took on the road to migrating from my old Wordpress installation to my nice shiny new Habari installation. Continue reading ►