Cooler than a cool thing on a cold day

Introducing the PZ3IceCold plugin

We haven't really named it that, it just kinda fit with the flow of the rest of the post ... just like all the images do ... So, you want it, you desire it, you love the feel of it in your hands, you want to do all sorts of cool and sexy things with it ...... you need a shrink ...... but where the hell do you get it? The short answer is here, the long answer is way longer and also involves big words .... but you've already downloaded the plugin and forgotten all about my tacky lil pad, whilst you paw over the coolness of the interface .... I understand .... sniff .....

for the minority that are still reading, here's the rest of the post ( including all the big words ):

waiting for the file manager

We rock

Millions of people email us on a daily basis begging us to code a photozoom plugin that works with every version of b₂evolution that we've tested it with ........ which is .... urm, whatever version I'm running, and another one, and scott may have tested it by the time I post this, in whatever version he's running, so that's three versions it may or may not run in ...... Today their dreams have become a reality ..... so stop emailing us already, just download the bloody plugin ...... from now on, adding a photozoomed image to your posts is as simple as clicking a button, emailing us to tell us how frickin' cool the interface looks, clicking a few more buttons here, type the odd caption there and ... just for you IE users out there ..... clicking on a radio button, and voila, or boom or blammo or whatever, instant PZ3 image in your post complete with caption, alt text, title text and some other bits of your choice ....... how cool is that!

Choose an image from the file manager

So, how come we're cooler than a canadian snowstorm?

The short answer is "install the plugin".The long answer is much longer and includes those big words I promised : On the grounds that the b2evo admin pretty much requires javascript just to function, we decided to have a play with improving the work-flow by manipulating the DOM with some pretty persuasive code .... which is ironic really, since photozoom was specifically created to be a pure CSS solution .... without all the ie specific html shit that other solutions employ ... anyway, I digress .... so, we started to play with an interface .... ohhh, and we bent the core a tad, sorry FG .... and then we spent a fair smidge of time, courtesy of Mr Gates, with a slightly higher than normal blood preassure ... and then, finally, we stepped back and looked in awe at the wondrous mess we'd created ....... at least it proved the concept was viable

Real html added to your post

So, we wandered off into a dark and lonely place and spent a few days coding up the new work-flow ... and then we spent several hours beating IE over the head with a copy of HTML for Dummies ... and finally it was done. The end result is a plugin that makes it a doddle to add photozoom images to your post, without you having to worry about all the HTML/CSS required to make all the magic work. As an added bonus the plugin actually puts the HTML into your post so even if you uninstall the plugin, as long as you include the pz3 css in your skin, your images will still work.

Is that it?

Realising that not everybody likes the black look, weirdos, we added loads of classnames and id's and stuff to all the various bits that make up the interface, so if you prefer your screen to be red just hit the relevant stylesheet and play with hex. Just don't forget to take IE to one side and slap it around until it understands your changes. Please note : this is a pre-release version, so there's still a few style glitches to work out with the interface. The actual photozoom part of it is fully finished though and won't be changed between now and the public release, so it's safe to play with it.

As always any feedback would be appreciated, even if all you want to say is "your interface sucks", of course we'd just refer you to a good shrink, but that's by the by.

¥

Hey cuzz

Of course, all the relations were of adult age and consent was given .... so, I've come back to a plugin that I was playing with months ago, but put on hold because I couldn't be arsed coding in all the tag stuff that it needed. However the latest version of b₂evolution has tag support, so I can just do the lazy arsed bit and code the related posts component of it

What does it do?

Well, apart from molesting your relations, it adds a list of related posts to each of your posts based on the tags that you've used for your posts, in a kinda "nearest cuzzin" way. This is all automated ( although I might make it a skintag thing at a later date ), so you just need to upload and install ..... and yer cuzzins are mine

As always, this plugin is supplied as is .... and if it molests yer granny then .... well, hell, she deserves a tad of excitement at her age huh? ... anyway, you can download it here .... let me know if it fails huh?

¥

We get lots of forum posts asking how to get multi-domain and multi-subdomain single evo installs working on a linux box, and I'm still baffled why people find it so hard ( especially if a blonde like me can achieve it huh? ), but I was running a trick windows install and had never tried on linux ......... until now, so I thought I'd document how I did it.....

Read more »

Welcome to Tacky 3

As you may have noticed, my tacky palace has just had the decorators in. What you probably haven't noticed is that it's now wrapped around b₂evolution 2.0.2.alpha|summat .... how cool is that? ..... well, a tad cooler, now it's also running on a linux box as well, so no more windows hacks for clean urls. Of course this means I now have a few plugins that need tweaking and some other bits and bobs like my contact form, but what the hell, life could be far less interesting

¥

Prompted by a forum comment by jibberjab asking how to exclude certain word/search terms from our Search Cloud plugin, I decided to do a tad of an overhaul, as the only solution was "crack open the plugin file and add <snippet> to the code" .... not exactly user friendly ... so I decided to "crack open the plugin file" and add a setting for it ....... and then I went mad and added settings for pretty much everything you could imagine.

Announcing the new and improved Search Cloud Plugin

Not content with just adding a new setting for excluding search terms, and moving pretty much every other parameter into settings as well, I widgetised it for those of you running 2.0.x, so you can have settings based on individual skins/blogs .... how cool is that ? ...... well apparently it's not cool enough .... Scott woke up .... and during one of my more lax moments , I mentioned that I'd recoded the plugin ..... never a good move

Announcing the new and improved Search Cloud Plugin

So, after the input from the grumpy bugger, and a tad more coding, we're proudly run by wordrpess .... just kidding, have you seen the code that runs a wordpress blog? ... *shudders* ..... anyway, back on track, we have a new improved, should cover all situations ( even Scott situations ) search cloud plugin ..... although some enhancements require javascript

Anyway, if you like to live on the edge, and have a spare cpu for your server, you can download a test version of the code here. I haven't updated the helpfile yet, so you'll either have to hit the plugin settings and try and work it all out, or take a look in the source for all the available shit. If you're running 2.0.x then you should also have all the settings as widget settings ( which default to the current plugin settings .... damn this all gets complicated fast ) ..... As always, this code is supplied as is, and if it melts your server then .... urm, tough

¥