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Bogart Gains Some Ground, and a Point
I’m pleased (and somewhat puzzled) to share that my Bogart theme has done far better than I ever expected it would. To me, it’s just one of those “kind of there” themes compared to some of the awesome designs that have shown up on the WordPress scene as of late.
Even still, it’s managed to find its way onto a few favorites lists recently — which is kind of neat. To those who’ve included me on your lists; I’m honored & humbled to be included among so many other talented theme authors. Thanks for the props.
Naturally, due to this notoriety, I’ve been motivated to fix some of the niggling little inconsistencies that bugged me — most of those being with the sidebar widgets. I think I’ve managed to get most of the little quirks ironed out, and it looks much nicer when using widgets than it did. I’ve decided to officially release my latest changes as version 0.6, which can be downloaded from the Bogart page. Go grab it now if you use it.
I’ve also set up a SVN repository on Google Code to manage the project. The latest trunk can be anonymously checked out at this link. You’ll always be able to get the latest changes (be they good or bad) there.
And finally, to top it off, I plan to set up a separate sub-domain (bogart.jimmitchell.org) in order to let the public get a feel for the theme in action. That’ll be sometime next week — maybe. We’ll see what my schedule turns into over the next few days. Um, make that today, because I’m just funny that way. If I don’t get it off my mind, it’ll drive me nuts until I do.
Rumors of My Demise Are Somewhat Exagerated
Funny how time can slip away from something when you’re focused on other ventures. As most of you know, I took up playing music again a few months back. Since then, I’ve managed to wind up committing myself to 2 substitute positions, and another 2 forming bands. If there’s anything that can be said for me, it’s that I just can’t say no when I should.
With all the learning/re-learning of material for the new gigs (we’re talking almost 150 tunes here), my several projects have been put into holding patterns. Once I get a little more settled (as in drop a sub slot, and one of the bands), then I should be able to focus on coding stuff again.
So, with that in mind, here’s the tentative plan;
Yasu will get one more minor update, then I’ll start working on the next major version that will add some cool, and unique features.
Tom at NoName Scriptware has turned over Cache Out X to me completely. It turns out there are still a lot of you out there who use it. You’ll be happy to know that I plan to re-write it from the ground up sometime this summer and release it as the next major version (5.0). Tom was kind enough to let me know that COX got a magazine call out in the 6/07 issue of MacLife. If he hadn’t, I wouldn’t have even known about it. Thanks Tom!
My Wordpress themes will be getting overhauls sometime this summer too. Bogart still needs some work (as do Ala Moana & Plane Jane), even though it was listed as one the 100 favorite themes of Andrew Eglinton over at Desperate Curiosity. Thanks Andrew! I’m honored to have been included with such talented company.
I’ll be adding a new WordPress theme to the stable as well. It’s very preliminary right now, but it’ll be nice — and sparse. I like sparse. Sparse is good.
An finally, I’d like redo the site to better focus on my apps and themes, instead of the weblog so much.
So there you have it. Lots of work to do this summer. Add to that rehearsals & gigs (drop me a line if you’re a SoCal local and would like to come to a show), as well as the day job being busy as ever (no summer sabbatical this year), and you can see why it’s been nearly a month and a half since my last post.
WordPress Theme: Bogart Updated to v0.5
I updated the Bogart WordPress theme to version 0.5 today, bringing it better in line with widget usability. If you’ve already downloaded v0.2, I highly recommend you grab this version. It’s way, way better.
A huge thanks goes out to Josh Cook who helped with some of the widgetizing work, and got me up off my butt to make this happen. As such, he’s listed as co-developer.
Pop on over to the theme page to see a screenshot, and download it if you like it.
New Wordpress Theme: Bogart
At the request of a couple of readers, I released a very preliminary version (0.2) of a new 3 column WordPress theme based on the design I use here at JMO today.
I’ve dubbed this new creation “Bogart”, and it can be downloaded from it’s own page here. For those wondering — no, it’s not widget ready yet, but it should be soon. I’ve got “people” helping me out with the task. More about that when it’s ready.
For those wondering where the name came from, it’s because I “bogarted” a few design ideas from here and there1 to create the look. It was the first thing that came to mind & seemed appropriate.
The theme was developed under WP 2.1.x, but should work under 1.x in it’s current state (no guarantees though). It relies on a few plug-ins, which I’ll list here later when I have the time to do it.
Now go grab yours & have a ball.
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Critical WordPress Upgrade Released
WordPress › Blog » WordPress 2.1.1 dangerous, Upgrade to 2.1.2: This morning we received a note to our security mailing address about unusual and highly exploitable code in WordPress. The issue was investigated, and it appeared that the 2.1.1 download had been modified from its original code. We took the website down immediately to investigate what happened. [Posted via wordpress.org]
This is a very critical update. If you run a WordPress 2.1.x site, you need to update a.s.a.p. — no if, ands or buts. Fortunately, I wasn’t bit by the security breach, however, I did find error logs in my web directory that showed me some kind of nefarious behavior was going on.
Sometimes it’s easy to forget that the web can be a bad, bad place…
