Author Archives: Mike Walker

Dynamic Form Settings with JQuery

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Mike Walker

One of the thing I like to do when creating HTML forms is to hide the input fields of features that users have not yet selected. It reduces the clutter on the screen, makes it easier for users to navigate … Continue reading →

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Twenty Eleven Theme Extensions version 1.2 released

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Mike Walker

As promised a new version of the Theme Extensions has been unleashed on the unwitting public, with a major new feature that gives you twelve new individual color settings (in addition to the color of the link text) on the … Continue reading →

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A Teaser and a Request

Posted on August 21, 2011 by Mike Walker

Just as a teaser, I will be releasing version 1.2 of the Theme Extensions plugin in a day or two, and it will allow you to change twelve new individual color settings in addition to the Link Color you can … Continue reading →

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Twenty Eleven Theme Extensions version 1.1.1 released

Posted on August 20, 2011 by Mike Walker

Another release for bug fixes only, but important ones: I had forgotten to test the plugin with left-sidebars, and just discovered that the alignment of the content when the Widget Titles option was set was way off.  Fixed that by … Continue reading →

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Twenty Eleven Theme Extensions version 1.1 released

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Mike Walker

I have just updated the Twenty Eleven Theme Extensions plugin with a small, but important fix. Turns out that I was erroneously injecting the plugin’s Javascript code into all the admin pages. The code itself is innocuous, but I was … Continue reading →

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Twenty Eleven Tips: Using Featured Images in the Header

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Mike Walker

When I was playing with the new Twenty Eleven Theme Extensions plugin I noticed that the header of the Twenty Eleven theme looks to see if there is a featured image associated with the individual post or page being displayed. … Continue reading →

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New Plugin: Twenty Eleven Theme Extensions

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Mike Walker

Well, I’m back, as a certain hobbit once said. Apologies to anyone who has been asking questions about Embedder while I’ve been away. I have no real excuse other than I just lost interest in the whole business of writing … Continue reading →

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Embedder version 1.3.2 released

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Mike Walker

Yup, another bug-fix-only release.  It seems that my attempts to make Embedder compatible with PHP4 introduced a problem for some people trying to create embeds, which is not good, obviously, so I’ve posted a quick fix for the problem. Please … Continue reading →

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New Parser Features — The Default Attribute

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Mike Walker

The new parser introduced into version 1.3 does everything the old parser could do, and more. Perhaps the most useful new feature is the default attribute. (Note: this is different from “attribute defaults” which were also in the old parser.) … Continue reading →

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Embedder version 1.3.1 — (um — Fixes Ahoy?)

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Mike Walker

Okay, thanks to Phil’s feedback I have rooted out a couple of major problems when running on PHP4 and when you’re running the WordPress server on Windows. The fixes were just a few single line code changes here and there, … Continue reading →

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