76 Digital Remix Theme

Date: 25th April 2008 at 5:02 pm | Filed under: blog, development, themes, wordpress | Author: Sam Burdge

I have updated my site with my new 76 digital remix theme for WordPress.

The new theme is built on a model I have created for a highly configurable, versatile set of premium themes which I will be releasing this summer. The premium themes will each come in three different versions – Editorial, Media and Ultimate (which combines the features of both editorial and media versions). The themes features will include:

Editorial Version

  • Dynamic site header
  • Rotating news on homepage
  • Feed aggregator to display news from other sites
  • Dropdown navigation for sub-pages
  • Sliding sidebar navigation
  • Sliding comments
  • Lightbox integration
  • Dynamic banner / google advertising integration
  • Gravatar support for authors and commenters
  • Widget ready
  • Plugin ready
  • Author profiles
  • Various post layout options
  • Multiple language support
  • Image gallery layouts
  • Easy to use setup page
  • Feed syndication
  • Various page layouts
  • Full Instructions
Media Version

  • Dynamic site header
  • Slideshow on homepage
  • Dropdown navigation for sub-pages
  • Sliding sidebar navigation
  • Sliding comments
  • Lightbox integration
  • Dynamic banner / google advertising integration
  • Gravatar support for authors and commenters
  • Widget ready
  • Plugin ready
  • Author profiles
  • Various post layout options
  • Multiple language support
  • Image gallery
  • Easy to use setup page
  • mp3 and video support
  • Feed syndication
  • Various page layouts
  • Full Instructions

I will also release a free 'light' version of the theme set, so watch this space!

2 Responses to “76 Digital Remix Theme”

  • Comment by Premium WP Theme News Links | WP-Premiums
    Date: April 25th, 2008 at 8:54 pm

    [...] Burdge is currently working on his 76 digital remix theme, which he is using on his blog at the moment and plans to release in the summer. The theme will be [...]

  • Comment by Леша
    Date: September 24th, 2008 at 3:46 pm

    Интересная штуковина, вот только стоит наверное тоже немало.

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Image mouseovers without javascript - CSS & Sprites

Date: 3rd March 2008 at 1:27 am | Filed under: development, scripts | Author: Sam Burdge

This article is an extension / improvement upon another article I published on my site previously: Simple Javascript for Image Mouseovers. As I am always looking for improved methods, I was discussing the pitfalls of the javascript method with a friend (and occasional comment writer / contributor to my site) who pointed me in the direction of CSS and image sprites. This lead me to research the topic further, and I found two articles in particular which were incredibly useful:

Read on…

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WP Instructions Plugin

Date: 19th February 2008 at 10:07 pm | Filed under: development, plugins, wordpress | Author: Sam Burdge

As someone who regularly sets up WordPress sites for clients, often with bespoke themes and various plugins installed, I find it useful and helpful to include basic instructions for them. I used to send a text document to them by email when I handed the site over, but more recently have been including an instructions page as a tab in WordPress.

This plugin allows you to create a custom instructions page for a wordpress blog. Especially useful for those setting up WordPress sites for other people. You can use it to provide instructions for use of specific plugins etc.

Installation:

  1. Upload the wp_instructions folder to your wp-content/plugins folder.
  2. Activate the plugin from the Plugins page.

Usage:

To create your custom instructions simply edit the instructions.txt file in the wp_instructions folder. You can use html if you want. Numbered lists are a good format for giving step-by -step instructions.

Handy Tip:

As pointed out by David A (See comments for this post) you can use WordPress to create an instructions page and save it as private. You can then copy and paste the code from the code view of the WP text editor into the plugin's instructions.txt file, thus creating an html formatted instructions page without having to write any html yourself.

Download:


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  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: March 2nd, 2008 at 5:19 pm

    Hi all,
    Just a quick note to users of this plugin - the plugin is currently set so that all user levels are able to view the instructions. If you wish to change this so that only users of a certain level (i.e Authors or administrators) are able to view the instructions you can change the following line in the plugin's code:

    add_menu_page('WP Instructions', 'Instructions', 1, __FILE__, 'wp_instructions_page');

    Replace the number 1 with the number that relates to the user level you want. For more info about user levels please visit this page on the wordpress site Levels and Users for WordPress.

    Also for non-english users you can always replace the word 'Instructions' with the translation in your own language.

    I hope these tips come in handy.

    Sam

  • Comment by Ken savage
    Date: March 4th, 2008 at 3:58 pm

    Hey Sam, nice plugins. thx for sharing.

    Woould you be willing to share the instruction you give out for new people accessing wordpress? I'm turning over a new site to another group in my company and this would save me a few hours of writing and creating screen shots.

  • Comment by David
    Date: March 4th, 2008 at 10:58 pm

    The download is an empty file!?!?

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: March 9th, 2008 at 1:54 pm

    Hi Ken,
    All of the instructions I have written are generally to do with using specific plugins like Podpress or ANIga. They would probably not be that useful to you. You could always take some of the instructions from the wordpress.org site and summarise them.
    Sam

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: March 10th, 2008 at 10:01 pm

    Hi David
    This problem (in IE only) should be solved now. Appologies for the inconvenience.
    Sam

  • Comment by David A
    Date: March 18th, 2008 at 3:18 pm

    Hi, nice idea! However, I'm wondering if it can be modified to pull a specific page from Wordpress instead of using a text file. That way you could use WP's page editor to edit up your instructions with formatting.

    So far, it appears that if you were to create a page template with no header, sidebar, footer- just the page content code, then create a page in WP, make it private, and use that blank page template, it should work fine as a replacement for Instructions.txt under your plugin (provided the path is changed in the plugin).

    You'd probably need to use pretty permalinks to keep the path stable, or provide a selector within the plugin page to pick the right page, but otherwise it should work fine? Does this sound workable/useful, or have I strayed too far from the path (again) ? :)

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: March 19th, 2008 at 7:31 pm

    Hi David,
    Thats an interesting thought. I will think about integrating such a feature for a future release of the plugin.
    Sam

  • Comment by David A
    Date: March 20th, 2008 at 3:59 pm

    Hi again, I discovered that by using WP to create a Private page of instructions, you can copy and paste from the Code view into the Instructions.txt, and it displays perfectly.

    You will still likely need to upload the text file into the plugin folder (your server directories, like mine, are probably not writeable for security reasons), but at least you can use WP to write and maintain the instructions.

    Thanks again for such a great idea, and donation incoming!

    David
    p.s. The captcha system is giving me a headache, three tries and no luck so far. I'm triplechecking before submitting, and it sure LOOKS right…

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: March 23rd, 2008 at 5:35 pm

    Hi David
    Thanks. I'm glad you found it so useful.
    Sam

  • Comment by Weathervane
    Date: March 25th, 2008 at 10:01 pm

    I can't find a download link for any of your plugins. Am I missing something?

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: March 26th, 2008 at 10:57 pm

    @Weathervane: Hi, erm… the big button that says 'download file' under the heading 'Download:' at the bottom of each plugin post!

  • Comment by Kevin
    Date: April 8th, 2008 at 12:46 pm

    The plugin doesn't work op wp 2.5 :(

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: April 12th, 2008 at 10:48 pm

    @Kevin: I have tested it on WP 2.5 and it works fine for me. Have you tried re-installing the plugin?

  • Comment by Leon
    Date: April 14th, 2008 at 1:07 pm

    Hi Sam

    Nice plugin. Was looking for something like this. The WP admin plugin manager states that there is a 1.0 version, but the HTML link refers to your flash clock plugin. Maybe you can fix this?

  • Comment by Christopher
    Date: April 15th, 2008 at 2:44 pm

    Just installed it and I think it is a great little plugin - really useful, many thanks for your hard work.

    It did not seem to like it that I have not installed WordPress in the root (blog homepage is in different directory from where WordPress is installed), so had to edit the plugin to point it at the right directory for the text file.

    I also just noticed that WordPress is suggesting an update but linking to wp-digi-clock-plugin-01beta

  • Comment by Christopher
    Date: April 15th, 2008 at 2:50 pm

    Sorry, could have been more useful if I had included my edit.

    Changed get_bloginfo(’url’) for get_bloginfo(’wpurl’)

  • Comment by Casey
    Date: May 30th, 2008 at 5:49 pm

    I keep downloading and upgrading, but it keeps telling me that a new version is available. The zip I download produces a folder name wp_instructions_01, with another wp_instructions folder within. No matter which folder I put up there, the plugins page says there’s a newer version available.

    could you please check to see if the package is correct? I’m using 2.5.1. I read that your plugin was compatible with 2.5x…. please advise if this isn’t true, thanks!

  • Comment by WP Help : Pressing Pixels | A Wordpress Magazine
    Date: June 4th, 2008 at 10:10 pm

    [...] I came across a plugin that did this but is was not easily updatable and had some issues with a couple of installations. So I’ve improved on it and here is WP Help inspired by Sam Burdge’s wp-instructions. [...]

  • Comment by Laran Evans
    Date: July 19th, 2008 at 5:21 am

    Hey Sam. Neat plugin.

    I did run into some issues due to the use of the fopen function.

    I wrote a plugin that generates a table of contents for content.

    Someone contacted me today saying that they wanted to integrate the table of contents with your instructions plugin. So I did. I also fixed the fopen bug.

    So, here’s a link to the integrated code (just the .php file, not instructions.txt) along with two screenshots. One screenshot is when my table of contents plugin is activated. The other is when it’s de-activated.

    http://tinyurl.com/5n3qj6

    Now I’m going to go check out the WP Help plugin :)

    Enjoy!

  • Comment by Laran Evans
    Date: July 19th, 2008 at 5:23 am

    I forgot to give the url of my plugin. Here it is:

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-table-of-contents/

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WP Custom Title Colour Plugin

Date: 31st October 2007 at 8:42 pm | Filed under: development, plugins, wordpress | Author: Sam Burdge

This WordPress plugin does exactly what its title suggests, gives you the ability to customise the title colour for any post via a panel in the sidebar of the write page. Handy for creating alerts, or drawing attention to a particular post.

Instructions:

  1. Download the plugin file here: WP Custom Title Colour Plugin
  2. Upload the folder 'custom_title_colour ' into your 'wp-content/plugins' folder
  3. Activate the plugin via your plugins page in wordpress
  4. When writing or editing a post you can control the title colour via the 'Title Colour' tab in the right sidebar.

This plugin utilises the Colour Picker Selector script by: FREE-COLOR-PICKER.COM

12 Responses to “WP Custom Title Colour Plugin”

  • Comment by Lafdil
    Date: November 2nd, 2007 at 10:23 am

    does this script allow to change also the font & the size ?

    thank you

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: November 2nd, 2007 at 1:31 pm

    Hi, it only changes the colour at the moment, but I could easily add those features for a future version, good suggestion! I have just released the plugin, to see how people respond to it, so it may not be updated for a while. However, I will email you and let you know when the next version is released.

  • Comment by Zachary Guidry
    Date: November 2nd, 2007 at 4:51 pm

    Thanks for the plugin! I have a minor comment - when I unzipped the file, it did not create a folder called ‘custom_title_colour’. You may want to create the zip so that the extracted files are in the properly named folder.

    Again, thanks for sharing - I have many ideas on how to use this plugin.

  • Comment by Zachary Guidry
    Date: November 2nd, 2007 at 5:00 pm

    I just installed the plugin and it works wonderfully. I noticed that you used the same color picker I used in my Multiblix plugin. You can view Multiblix at http://blog.websitemechanics.com/?page_id=3

    Zack

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: November 2nd, 2007 at 5:41 pm

    Thanks for the feedback, I’ll change the archive so that it contains the correctly named folder inside it. Multiblix looks very cool!!

  • Comment by Thunder-man
    Date: March 24th, 2008 at 3:56 pm

    Hy, I become this Title
    Age of Japan”>Age of Japan
    My Theme is WP-Andreas09

    Thunder-man

  • Comment by zulu
    Date: June 14th, 2008 at 12:40 pm

    Hi. Nice idea :) but doesn’t work with my blog. Like Thunder-man, I always get two titles, first one in black (standard) with “>, second one is in customized colour, like:
    Message in a bottle”>Message in a bottle

    It`s also impossible to reset given colour back to “none”, last chosen colour seems fixed.
    My theme is Silver Shine 1.0 by IS.

    zulu

  • Comment by mutantz
    Date: July 15th, 2008 at 12:15 pm

    Hi! Cool plugin, but i need choose background color and border-bottom ) Can u fix this for me?))))
    sorry for english)

  • Comment by peweck
    Date: July 15th, 2008 at 8:12 pm

    doesn’t work with my blog. Like Thunder-man ans Zulu…

  • Comment by GamA
    Date: August 29th, 2008 at 2:05 am

    can you add a background color change feature as well?
    its what i was really looking for.

  • Comment by GamA
    Date: August 29th, 2008 at 2:08 am

    i was talking about the post title background. also this plugin does not work for me same as Thunder-man and Zulu.

  • Comment by Czymra
    Date: November 5th, 2008 at 1:43 pm

    When using this plugin, make sure you use ‘get_the_content’ instead of ‘the_content’ in your theme, then it will work.

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76 Digital Wordpress Themes

Date: 25th October 2007 at 8:01 pm | Filed under: development, themes, wordpress | Author: Sam Burdge

The 76 Digital WordPress theme-set by 76 Creative is now available for download. The 76 Digital theme comes in four colour schemes: blue, green, orange and pink. It features a Flash header, which displays your blog title and tagline. It is also set up to work with many useful plugins.

76 Digital Blue - Screen76 Digital Green - Screen76 Digital Orange - Screen76 Digital Pink - Screen

Please read the readme file before installing the themes.

FEATURES:

  1. Comes in four colour schemes.
  2. Flash header displaying blog title and tagline.
  3. Compatible with many plugins, as listed below...

INSTRUCTIONS:

  1. Choose the colour scheme you want.
  2. Upload the theme to your wp-conent/themes folder.
  3. Select the them from the 'Presentation' page in your WordPress.

PLUGINS:

The theme is set up to work with the following plugins if they are installed:

  1. Dagon Design Sitemap Generator — Create a sitemap page.
  2. Get Recent Comments — Display recent comments in the sidebar.
  3. Jerome's Keywords — Attach tags to posts and have them display in your sidebar.
  4. Theme Switcher — Switch between the different themes you have installed.
  5. WP Navigation Tool (NAVT) — Create custom links for the tabbed navigation across the top of the page. Just create a group called 'tabs', then add links to it. This plugin is highly recommended!!

FLASH HEADER:

For all you WordPress wannabes out there wondering how the Flash header thing is done, stay tuned, as I will be posting tutorials about WordPress and Flash on my site in the near future, along with lots of other Flash based widgets and plugins for WP.

DOWNLOAD:


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  • Comment by Graham
    Date: May 4th, 2008 at 9:20 am

    Hello Sam ! Great site and content !!! I’m very impressed in the page nav with the + & - action to bring the subpages in view . Is this a plugin or something you’ve developed ?

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: May 4th, 2008 at 10:56 am

    Hi Graham
    Glad you like it!! The sliding nav is something I developed using jquery. I will release a theme that features it some time soon…more info here
    Sam

  • Comment by Nuno
    Date: July 11th, 2008 at 9:57 am

    Hello

    I like very much you theme (all features), the seach results shows thumbmais it´s fantastic. I intent use it, but unfortunately I’m inesperiente future blogger and I can´t put the theme work, I unable to customize the sidebar, indeed can upload a photo.
    If you put theme work without request knowledge HTML was really wonderful.

    A hug

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