Not long ago, I blogged about the merits of Thesis Theme for WordPress. I praised it for its configurability, ease of use, and search engine friendliness. At $164 for the Developer option (which I bought), it didn’t come cheap, and updates and additional features for it have been coming thick and fast. However, nothing could have prepared me for the shit storm that has been brewing for a while, and has finally unleashed itself on the WordPress community. As it turns out, the developer of Thesis, Chris Pearson, has been building a business on the back of a GPL licensed piece of software, but the theme he profits from (Thesis) isn’t released under the same GPL licence – something which is not made super apparent on the Diythemes website. Hey, if WordPress is GPL, why expect anything built on it to be anything different?
Before I get going with this quick ‘how to’ on integration between Buddypress and Thesis Theme, let me throw a few caveats out there. First of all, this isn’t an ‘all in one’ solution – you’ll have to grab some css files from either the default Buddypress theme or a custom Buddypress theme you manage to track down. Your site might look a bit ugly, but you’ll have it cleaned up and looking lovely in no time at all. I promise.
Second – at this point i’ve not managed to figure out how to get <title> and meta description tags working on Buddypress pages after the integration, but my hunch is that Seo For Buddypress might work. I just thought i’d get this tutorial up quickly because I’m sure many other developers have been banging their heads off their desks for days to get a Thesis / Buddypress integration up and running – I know I have! Here goes… [click to continue…]
I’ve been a big fan of Xero, the online accounting system, for quite some time. Since I first blogged about it almost two years ago, the service has come on in leaps and bounds, and an increasing number of Irish accountancy practices have adopted Xero and are recommending it to clients. One of the great differences between Xero and ‘off the shelf in a box’ software like Sage is the immediate roll out of new features when they become available. Not only can you access your accounts anywhere, anytime (you need internet access of course), but you’ll never have to install any software updates ever again. The latest update from Xero – their Invoice Branding Tool – is rather cool. [click to continue…]
If you’re an F1 fan, most likely you had your heart in your mouth during Sundays European Grand Prix at Valencia. Mark Webber had a spectacular coming together with Finnish driver Heikki Kovalainen who drives for the Lotus F1 team. Mark’s Red Bull F1 car had just come in for a pit stop, and was trying to pass Kovalainen for track position. Even though the Lotus was several seconds a lap slower than the Red Bull, Heikki was determined to protect his position, and the following crash ensued!
I think i’ve gone deaf. After spending 45 minutes of a Tube journey – all the way from Covent Garden to Heathrow – listening to slurps, squelches, and flubbers in your left ear, wouldn’t you too? And the source of these wonderful sounds? A young couple (Daniel was the guys name, I looked at the tag on his oversized luggage), and his young, needy, and clearly very horny girlfriend. As I sat right beside them for most of my journey to the airport I was treated, or punished if you’d like to look at it in a realistic way, to what amounted to a ravenous display of soft-core, David Attenborough style porn. Well, me and around 50 other passengers, all of whom had the same look of disgust in their faces, all trying to concentrate on their Danielle Steel novels instead of the real-life version going on within eye and earshot. Oh, all of this happened at around 9am on a Tuesday morning. To hell with a glass of Tropicana and a bit of muesli, these two get their day kick started with a full on public romp.
I’ve been a huge fan of Conan O’Brien for a long time, to the point where I even bought a I’m with Coco T-Shirt during the whole Tonight Show fiasco. I stumbled across this great video of Conan O’Brien visiting Google today, and he seems to be happier than ever despite his public sacking. Get ready for some subtle slagging of Jay Leno, some insights on how his Twitter account helped him generate support during his tough times, and an all too quick sampling of his ‘String Dance‘. Enjoy!
Ok, I’ve been trying to remember just how I stumbled across this one, so please don’t ask. Flojuggler is a new ‘Web 2.0′ app which lets you “Track periods of one or more girls.” As charming as this idea sounds, there might actually be some sort of decent spin off application for such a weird – and kinda gross – idea.
Finally, after a long beta period and 1,217 bug fixes and feature enhancements, WordPress 3.0 has arrived. As a WordPress user on this blog and other projects, i’m excited. This version of WordPress really is a huge step away from it being simply ‘blogging software’ – it is now a CMS in its own right. Here’s some of the cool new features i’m excited about.
Doesn’t everyone know how to take screenshots on Mac OS X? For lifetime Apple Fanboys (and girls) such mundane tasks are par for the course – so please bear with me and read on if this is old news to you. I’m a recent Apple convert. Up until January 2010, my only interactions with Apple were on a Macintosh back in secondary school (1997), and my iPhone. Coming from the wonderfully crashy world of Windows Vista was a baptism of fire, but where the hell was the ‘Print Screen’ button? How the hell could I take a bloomin screenshot on this new fangled thing? Here’s how.
I bought my copy of the Diythemes Thesis Theme almost a year ago – in July 2009 – and immediately forgot about it. I’m a clever boy. It’s only now, with the summer providing some more free time than I expected, that i’ve gotten up off my rear end and decided to push forward with some WordPress based projects – and of course i’ll be using Thesis on them all.
But first things first – what is the Thesis Theme anyway? And, at $87 for the single use option and $164 for the developer license, why should you buy it?
