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Dragonskin Child Themes

Angelo — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:50:55 +0000

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.

Dragonskin Gold

Dragonskin Green

Automatically show WP-PostRatings on your posts

Angelo — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:36:34 +0000

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.)

All you need to do is open wp-postratings/wp-postratings.php and find a line that looks like this:

//add_action('the_content', 'add_ratings_to_content');

Simply uncommenting that line will put the post ratings at the bottom of every post and page. In Dragonskin, I only included it on posts and at the top. To achieve the same, make some modifications to the next block of code, so that it looks like this:

function add_ratings_to_content($content) { if (!is_feed()|!is_page()) { $content = the_ratings('div', 0, false).$content; } return $content; }

Using Akismet Class with Spamwords for phpBB2

Angelo — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:02:24 +0000

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.

Install the spamwords mod
Download Akismet.class.php and put this under your phpBB2 includes/ directory
Modify the spamwords.php file so that it looks like this (include your Akismet API at the top):

WPMU Recent Posts Widget

Angelo — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:16:06 +0000

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.

Download WPMU Recent Posts Widget

Dragonskin WordPress Theme

Angelo — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:28:01 +0000

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.)

If you like this theme please rate it at WordPress!

Example Site Using Dragonskin

Features

Widget enabled
Gravatar enabled
Drop-down menu
Supports an optional header image to replace the text tile (just include an image as images/header.gif)

Integrated Support for Plugins

Image Credits

Bowie J. Poag
Brilliant Button Maker – for the 80×15 badges
Arcsin Website Templates – for the border image

Download

Version 1.3 – January 10, 2010

Added image for nicer looking blockquote
Added comment capability back to pages (but don’t display “comments disabled” when turned off)
Added support for local favicon
Added two child themes
Removed WP-PostRatings integration, integration can be done by editing the plugin

Version 1.2 – September 22nd, 2009

Separated the navigation bar to a separate file for easier modification (navbar.php)
Reduced the post area/black scroll width to see a little more of the background
Reduced transfer size (dragonskin-4bit.png)
Expanded author profile page to include all posts listing
Fixed bug that occurs if you have the optional files set unreadable – won’t generate an error on files existing without permissions
Added support for plugins
- Coauthors
- Smart 404
Replaced deprecated: link_pages, wp_list_cats, get_archives
Changed to display subcategories inline in drop-down menu
Removed code for Similar Posts plugin – the plugin includes a way to insert itself through the admin interface
Removed static-sidebar.php support
Removed clickheat support – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/easy-clickheat-intergration-plugin/
Removed post-banner.php support – suggest to use http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/smart-ads/

Version 1.1 – December 9th, 2008

Fixed some accidental plugs for Heroes Only.
Fixed sidebar bug on archive pages pushing sidebar below the content
Licensed under GPL

Version 1.0 – October 17th, 2008

If you like this theme please rate it at WordPress!

Post your LinkedIn résumé on your blog

Angelo — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:39:43 +0000

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:

Set your public profile to include all your resume information. (Remember the URL for your public profile.)
Upload the plugin to the plugins/ or mu-plugins/ directory
Create a page and include your URL in the following format:

(For example, )

Yes, this plugin works on both WPMU and WordPress!

Download LinkedIn hResume

Note to BitFreedom users:

This plugin is already installed and available on your blog. Simply set up your public LinkedIn profile and use the format

Using ScribeFire to Post

Angelo — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 06:57:18 +0000

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

Scribefire is a tool that allows you to post to your blog quickly and easily directly from an interface within Firefox, while browsing other sites. Scribefire works with the blogs here at BitFreedom, and is my recommended desktop composer. And best of all, since it’s a Firefox addon, it works on both Linux and Windows. If you’d like to give ScribeFire a try, check out the Getting Started page.

By the way, this post was written using–yes that’s right–ScribeFire.

CutlineNegative

Angelo — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 06:18:51 +0000

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.

Download CutlineNegative-1.1 ZIP file

It has a few other personal tweaks, but if all you really care about is the color scheme, then you can simply download the custom.css file instead. Simply replace custom.css in the Cutline theme with the file below.

Download CutlineNegative-1.1 CSS file

Embedded Video with Link

Angelo — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:57:32 +0000

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:

[portal-id video-id linktext]

The IDs for the different portals can be found beneath.
The ID of the video must be copied from the original URL. This is slightly different for the various video portals, you can find an instruction beneath as well.

The string you choose for the ‘linktext’ part will be included into the linktext below the video. Space characters are permitted.

Example: By typing in ‘[There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.]’ the YouTube video with ID ‘83FWE2qBudU’ is included and below a link to that video with the linktext ‘YouTube direct thing’ (as said before, you can configure the prefix ‘direct’ on the plugin configuration page). You can also skip the ‘thing’ string (eg ‘[There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.]’), the result will be generated correctly anyway (without any ‘thing’, of course).

If you don’t want any link below the video, just type ‘nolink’ as linktext, eg ‘[youtube 83FWE2qBudU nolink]’.

I’m sorry that there is no link shown for dailymotion videos!

If you have any questions, found bugs or require more features, just leave a comment on this page!

portal IDs for the supported portals

video portal –> required portal-id

Local file –> local
YouTube –> youtube
Google Video –> google
Sevenload –> sevenload
Clipfish –> clipfish
MyVideo –> myvideo
Revver –> revver
Metacafé –> metacafe
Yahoo! Video –> yahoo
Myspace Video –> myspace
ifilm –> ifilm
brightcove –> brightcove
aniBOOM –> aniboom
dailymotion –> dailymotion
GUBA –> guba
vimeo –> vimeo
Garage TV –> garagetv
GameVideos –> gamevideo
vSocial –> vsocial
Veoh –> veoh