Author Archives: Charles

reTheme, Simplify and Widgetize

By Charles | Published: November 2, 2009
Had to happen really. The theme we were using was beautiful in Mac browsers, but very ugly in IE, and let’s face it, most of the world still ends up using windows in one form or another, so it had to go. What did we choose? As you can see, something simple, useable and highly [...]
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Capture and the Living

By Charles | Published: September 18, 2009
Two unrelated issues we have been looking at over the last couple of days. We have implemented a Captcha functionality sitewide to prevent spambloggers. This requires a little configuration on individual blogs, so have a look when you get a chance and ensure it is doing the business, otherwise you might get some unwanted registrations! And the [...]
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What’s next for Our Illustrious Family? Or a WP Genealogy Roadmap

By Charles | Published: September 8, 2009
We’ve been looking at what is in development for WP and WPMU on the net and the closest thing to active is Webgrrrl looking at creating a GEDCOM friendly plugin. This looks encouraging for die-hard genealogists, but unfortunately that is it. Lorelle on Wordpress asked for help in 2006 and got some encouraging comments, but [...]
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Our Illustrious Family Opens

By Charles | Published: July 28, 2009
Welcome to ourillustriousfamily.com. We’re just about done configuring this version of WordPress MU. We’re using an excellent theme called Tworrder which takes Twitter as its inspiration, several page plugins, and the very useful Front End Editor. A little under-the-hood noodling, and we launch a Family WordPress for the world to use. That’s the other thing, Our [...]
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