Photonic, Suffusion and Other Premium-for-Free Projects
I have released version 1.22 of Photonic with the following changes: There was a problem with the authentication behaviour. If you weren’t connected to the internet and authentication options were switched on, your site would return fatal errors. This shouldn’t happen any more. I had earlier erroneously stated the license of PrettyPhoto to be “Creative […]
I have completed the features that need to go into 4.2.0 of Suffusion. You can get the beta release 1 of the theme for testing. The following are the big features included: HTML5 Markup Obviously, the biggest part of this release. I have converted the markup of the theme from XHTML to HTML5. Please give […]
As I work away on the HTML5 version of Suffusion, I thought I should release some patches that I have completed in the meanwhile. The first set of patches, released as version 4.0.5 addresses the following: Menus in “Left Header Widgets” and “Right Header Widgets” weren’t showing as dropdowns. This has been fixed. The Query […]
Version 1.21 of Photonic addresses 2 things: SmugMug password-protected photos will now be visible to users who have authenticated into the system and have access to the photos. There was a bug in SmugMug’s popup albums that was killing the last photo. So you would always see one photo less than the total if the […]
I have pushed out version 1.20 of Photonic, with one big feature: authentication. Almost all providers of online services offer some sort of authentication mechanism, typically OAuth. This includes Twitter, Flickr, Google, Facebook etc. A lot of these platforms have in fact moved away from proprietary authentication mechanisms to OAuth to support third-party integration. In […]
I released version 1.12 of Photonic to patch a corner-case bug with Flickr. If a Flickr photo had double quotes in its title, this would mess with the markup. I have taken care of this issue. This release has no other changes.
I have more or less completed the changes for the HTML5 version of Suffusion (probably Suffusion 4.1.0 or 4.2.0). A lot of folks think that HTML5 compatibility simply means that your site has to pass HTML5 validation. That would be doing HTML5 for all the wrong reasons. Here is why: The W3C markup validation service […]
Version 4.0.4 was released today. This is predominantly a maintenance release with very minor changes: New Features The following filters have been added suffusion_can_display_category_information suffusion_can_display_author_information suffusion_can_display_tag_information suffusion_can_display_search_information Using these filters you can optionally switch off the information displayed at the top for categories, authors etc. I have added the capability to control the excerpt length […]
I have released version 1.11 of Photonic. The following are the changes for this release: I have combined some JavaScript files to save server round-trips. I have deleted some redundant JS files. I have also added the capability to use a default gallery type. This way if you decide to use only Flickr photos on […]
Often in the rigours of theme development an important aspect gets overlooked: documentation. To remedy this I often publish recipes and encourage users to contribute documentation. One common request has always been, “What element should I be adding CSS for?” To address this I have put together a Markup and Hook Reference. The markup gives […]