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Dragonskin Child Themes

Posted in BitFreedom on January 20th, 2010 by Angelo – Be the first to comment

The Dragonskin Theme now also had child themes to give your site the skin of a different colored dragon. The child themes should be included in the download for the theme, and are simply used to modify the color scheme. You select them just as any other theme.

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Automatically show WP-PostRatings on your posts

Posted in BitFreedom on January 20th, 2010 by Angelo – 1 Comment

For the longest time, my Dragonskin Theme has had WP-PostRatings integration. Recently I removed the integration because it is easy to modify the rating plugin to accomplish the same goal. (I hope that in the future WP-PostRatings will provide a simple way to do this through the admin interface–it really isn’t that hard.)

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Using Akismet Class with Spamwords for phpBB2

Posted in BitFreedom on January 19th, 2010 by Angelo – Be the first to comment

I followed the instructions here for installing an akismet-based spam filter on phpBB2, but I found that it didn’t play nicely enough with the current Akismet API.  So instead, I downloaded an Akismet class and used that instead.  Basically, you should use Akismet.class.php instead of functions_akismet.php in your spamwords.php file. read more »

WPMU Recent Posts Widget

Posted in BitFreedom on April 8th, 2009 by Angelo – 4 Comments

First of all, let me preface this posting by saying there are a lot of versions of a “sitewide” plugin to show recent posts.  There are however, no widgetized versions that I could find, so I made a simple one.

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Dragonskin WordPress Theme

Posted in Wordpress Themes on October 17th, 2008 by Angelo – 5 Comments

Wrap your blog in the skin of a dragon! This is a dark theme that has a nice look for RPG and gaming sites. I originally developed this theme to go along with my D&D fan site. It features CSS-drive drop-down menus, support for multiple authors, and fluid width for flexible resolutions. (See below for full list of features and details.)

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Post your LinkedIn résumé on your blog

Posted in Wordpress Plugins on June 27th, 2008 by Angelo – Be the first to comment

This plugin is an update of the plugin at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/linkedin-hresume/ originally written by Brad Touesnard. I made these modifications so that it could be used with WPMU. This version doesn’t require you to edit the plugin file therefore can be used for multiple resume/CVs. It allows you to import and post your résumé from LinkedIn easily in 3 steps: read more »

Using ScribeFire to Post

Posted in BitFreedom on December 29th, 2007 by Angelo – Be the first to comment

Do you use Firefox? Of course you do. So you really need to know about this addon/plugin: ScribeFire.

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CutlineNegative

Posted in Wordpress Themes on December 14th, 2007 by Angelo – Be the first to comment

The CutlineNegative theme for Wordpress is based on the Cutline theme by Chris Pearson. It’s main feature is that it produces a gray-on-black Cutline instead of the typical black-on-white.

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Embedded Video with Link

Posted in BitFreedom on October 18th, 2007 by Angelo – Be the first to comment

If you want to post videos at bitfreedom.com, active the Embedded Video with Link plugin, and then use the following instructions to include your video.
If not using the WYSIWYG editor, a code snippet with the following format must be inserted into the blog post to include videos: read more »