I’ve updated two Pixelpost addons today. The first addon I updated is the Clickable Tags Addon. Thanks to Jay Williams (visit his photoblog) the code has been cleaned up a bit and the Javascript has been updated.
The second update concerns the Entrypage addon. The update includes the possibility to set additional URL parameters. This might come in handy if you would like to redirect your visitors to a paged archive.
Enjoy!
Over the past year I’ve been compiling a list with several entries about things that either were unclear or annoyed me to death about my photoblog layout. Fixing bugs or adding features took some time but yesterday I finally uploaded the beta version of the layout.
In general it is still the same, it only has evolved into an even better template (thanks for that comment Jay). So what is new?
Once in a while I’ll get some mail asking me where the download of the template is located. I’m truly sorry, but you cannot download the template. It is part of my identity and I put in so much hours that giving it away for free or for a small amount of money just doesn’t feel right.
Thanks for all the kind words through those emails, those are really appreciated.
Finally the (long awaited) update for the Defensio addon for Pixelpost is here. As mentioned in this blogpost earlier it contains the fix that slowed down a lot of photoblogs earlier this month.
Thanks to Carl Mercier of the Defensio team I was able to add one more bugfix. Carl was looking at the logs over at Defensio and noticed that sometimes the article-date is not passed to the service. The date is a required parameter and from the very first version I made sure the addon passed it along with the other variables.
This was kind of odd since it was clearly a Pixelpost blog and the date was not passed. I have to say I was stumped on this one, but Carl managed to figure it out. The Defensio addon allows comments to be posted on images that don’t exists yet. Once we (Carl) identified the problem a fix was a matter of a few lines. If the article-date is not in the database, the Defensio addon will throw a nice 404 error.
So there you have it, the best just got better! 
Every once in a while I stumble around a real gem, donated generously to the Pixelpost community, by a talented developer/programmer.
We all know the adminpanel of Pixelpost is, uhmmm.. a little outdated. Seriously, it needs a complete overhaul which we as a development team pushed forward to later. Much later since the majority of our development team consists of programmers/designers with the emphasis on writing PHP code. Sometimes we get so wrapped up we forget to style things properly.
Enter Nyssa Brown, a creative artist from Brisbane, Australia. She found the adminpanel so boring (did I mention she’s right about the boring part) she decided to spice things up a little. It has resulted in PPost Refresh – Custom Pixelpost Admin.
It looks really amazing, with 5 color schemes to choose from. I even installed it on my own blog! Let’s hope she will continue to make this even more amazing. 
(image courtesy of Nyssa Brown)
Well, today it is wednesday and my last post was more than a week ago. So I decided to update you what has been going on over the past few days. First off, I was feeling a bit under the weather, so I basically tried to take it easy. I’ll probably take it easy until next sunday or so since it feels so good (and I’m still not 100%). 
Every once in while you need to rest and cleanup things in your head.
Well, I haven’t been completely away so here is a list of what I’ve done:
Well that wraps it up for now, back to taking it easy.
