June 3, 2011
If you use this site at all, you’ve noticed the VinPass badges that are awarded to you when you rate or log certain wines. This feature has been in beta for a few months now, but is finally officially “launched”.
To view all the VinPass badges in play at WineLog, visit the badges page.
VinPass is a cross-site platform, working with the Drync and Hello Vino apps/sites. The launch has gotten some good press on ReadWriteWeb, 1WineDude, and other blogs.
We’re proud to be in such good company, and we look forward to what the future holds for this platform.
Let me know what you think of the feature. If you have suggestions. Which badges are you most excited about? (Some offer prizes)
June 3, 2011
The WP Page Tree plugin is a nice plugin. It shows a tree view of pages in your WP site… but it’s been broken since about version 3 or so.
I’m sure there are other tree view plugins that work well, but I liked that one. And it is actually an easy fix to get it working in WordPress versions 3+.
The issue was that the links generated in the tree view pointed to the old admin URLs for editing pages (page.php?action=edit&post=#). The new more generalized URLs for editing pages is (post.php?post=#&action=edit).
So, what you want to do is find line 404 in wppagetree.php (of version 2.8 of the plugin) and change page.php to post.php. That’s it. The whole block of code around there should look like:
if ($public) {
// Create our own link to edit page for this ID
$out .= "<a class=\"$pageStatus\" href=\"$pageURL\">" . $pageTitle . "</a>";
}
else {
$out .= "<a class=\"$pageStatus\" href=\"" . get_bloginfo('wpurl') . "/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=$pageID\">" . $pageTitle . "</a> <a style=\"font-size: 10px;\" class=\"$pageStatus\" href=\"$pageURL\">#</a>";
}
Or download this zip here which has version 2.8 of the plugin plus that one fix. I may upload it to the WP directory sometime, but then I’d have to maintain. Feel free to do it for me. 
Download: page-tree-fixed.zip
June 3, 2011
Here is a variation of some code I found on Yoast.com to disable the WP admin bar for non-admins only.
function yoast_hide_admin_bar_settings()
{
?>
<style type="text/css">
.show-admin-bar {
display: none;
}
</style>
<?php
}
function yoast_disable_admin_bar()
{
if(!current_user_can('administrator'))
{
add_filter( 'show_admin_bar', '__return_false' );
add_action( 'admin_print_scripts-profile.php', 'yoast_hide_admin_bar_settings' );
}
}
add_action('init', 'yoast_disable_admin_bar', 9);
Just copy and paste this code into your functions.php or another plugin/theme file that can add hooks. Save/upload and watch it work.
Let me know if you have any trouble using this.
May 11, 2011
We make these all the time, but Kim finally put together a page with placeholder images for most of the standard banner sizes for ads. Enjoy:
March 17, 2011
This is happening to me, with one of my stocks right now: RCRC.
A few months ago, I bought about 50 shares of RC2 Corporation (RCRC), a maker of die-cast and wooden toys, at $20. My wife and I were looking for an investment idea based on the toys and media we’re buying for our 2-year-old son. What I’d really like to do is own Thomas the Tank Engine, but the company owning the license (HIT Entertainment) is privately owned. The best we can do is to buy the companies with contracts on …
December 22, 2010
A couple months ago I opened a position in Activision Blizzard (ATVI). Blizzard is the Pixar of the gaming industry. All of their games are blockbusters. The most notable title World of Warcraft collects $15/month from their millions and millions of players.
I got interested in the stock after picking up Star Craft 2, another blockbuster game from them. I knew that game was going to sell better than expected. I had been watching pro Star Craft 2 tournaments that were run off the game’s beta for a few months. At …
December 3, 2010
These folks emailed us and they have some decent finance calculators on their site: Ultimate Calculators
I found the loan application one particularly interesting… haven’t seen that one before.
Cheers!
November 22, 2010
Paul Maybray of VinTank gives a nice overview of HR5034. That’s a bill in Congress that would add even more restrictions on shipping wine, which we’ve covered before. Safe to say, it’s a bad bill for wine lovers (but a good bill for distributors with lots of lobbying money, so we’ll see how it turns out).
Paul chats with a puppet version of Craig Wolf, who is CEO of the Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America (WSWA). Just watch. It will make sense, and you’ll have more insight into this mess.
Click here to view the embedded video.
More info, including sources for the Craig Wolf quotes, on the VinTank blog.
November 3, 2010
Here are slides from my talk. I was told a video of the presentation will be up at WordPress.tv sometime soon. I’ll post a link when it is. And I’ll try to get these in SlideShare or something similar. I was having trouble with their site earlier.
Business Models for WordPress Plugin and Theme Distribution
What You Need to Know About the GPL
Download: ppt, pptx
November 1, 2010
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