Author Archives: Trent Gardner

WordPress Plugin Updater Beta Test!

Today I have a little surprise for all of you, I’ve written a new plugin which I find extremely useful, I’ve dubbed it “Plugin Updater”. Not the most imaginative name, I know. Once it’s installed it adds a new button … Continue reading

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WordPress Flickr Manager now with Lightbox Support

It’s a bit of a rushed release because I’m pretty busy at the moment, so I didn’t have time to test it as much as I would have liked. I introduced a couple new features to Flickr Manager in this … Continue reading

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IE vs Firefox

As Nick so succinctly put it It’s like raising two children, one of whom is completely retarded

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WordPress Flickr Manager v1.2.1

Well I just got back from my Christmas break and started to follow up the feedback I received while I was away. This led to several bug fixes and a few changes, one of which being you now simply click … Continue reading

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WordPress Flickr Manager v1.2.0

Well I’ve spent a good portion of my day bug fixing and managed to stumble upon some fairly huge ones. One in particular wouldn’t let you save or publish posts and pages. Little did I realize WordPress use a hidden … Continue reading

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Flickr Manager now on WordPress extend

After about three weeks of waiting my Flickr Manager Subversion repository finally got approved over on the WordPress.org extend page. I’ll be using that to release the latest versions of my plugin, and because it’s only relatively new I’m in … Continue reading

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WordPress Flickr Manager plugin v1.1

At long last! If you’ve been waiting on the edge of your seat for the release of WordPress Flickr Manager 1.1, your week long journey is finally at an end. With this latest arrival, I added a few bells and … Continue reading

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A WordPress hoedown down south

[img:2039394071,thumbnail]I had a good time last weekend in Melbourne, had some great food, saw the sites and attended a WordPress event WordCamp. WordCamp was a gathering of geeks with a vision, and that vision was WordPress. The day was action … Continue reading

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An atomic WordPress

Recently I’ve been playing around with Microformats, more specifically hAtom. As an experiment, I converted this sites feed to a dynamically generated microformat based feed. After doing some reading I came across this little gem, hAtom2Atom, this is where the … Continue reading

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I come bearing gifts

Well you’ve landed on the new virtual home of Trent Gardner, a web developer working for DIRC in Adelaide, Australia. I’m currently completing my Bachelor in Mathematics and Computer Science at Adelaide University. My main field is server side programming … Continue reading

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