Author Archives: Steve Lambert

Help us test WPFolio Two beta

By Steve Lambert | Published: September 26, 2011

Over the past six months Lara Schenck has rewritten WPFolio on the Thematic theme framework. This is huge. You can see how it looks and works on her WPFolio Demo Site. Besides all the invisible things that will make your site look and work better and faster, here’s some features you can look forward to: all kinds of fancy webfonts available for your site title much larger thumbnails simpler, better organized options panel you can name your blog category anything you want special homepage template with fancy jQuery fade-in Artwork Info form with fields for Title, Medium, Dimensions, Collaborators, and additional info to insure universal formatting paste your custom CSS [...]

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WPFolio setup = reward on Kickstarter

By Steve Lambert | Published: July 12, 2011

I’m raising funds on Kickstarter for my latest project and one of the rewards for your support is setting up WPFolio! This means you supply me with 5 works, your contact info, resume, and other content and I will personally install WordPress, WPFolio, plugins, and get your first posts and pages online. I’ll also spend 45 minutes in a one-on-one session (over Skype or in person) getting you up to speed so you can get the rest of your portfolio online and understand how everything works. Of course, you absolutely can do all this yourself but this way you get your artwork online using the best open source tools and [...]

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WPFolio 1.75 on its way & PHP version checking

By Steve Lambert | Published: June 15, 2011

This version has some small changes: changed the version of php we were checking for to 5.2.4 so that it is consistent with the php version required for WP3.2 added a search form to the search results for better user experience some small changes in the style sheet primarily to make headers display more consistently (Thanks to Jason Varone to pointing this out) As some have already noticed, WPFolio now checks for your PHP version. If your version of PHP is out of date, WPFolio will tell you in the dashboard. Starting with WordPress 3.2, the PHP version required is 5.2.4 or greater. WPFolio also uses some features included in [...]

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WPFolio 1.74 is live – small changes

By Steve Lambert | Published: June 10, 2011

WPFolio 1.74 solves a few rare bugs and makes some minor improvements. You can update though the Updates interface in WordPress Admin (recommended), or download it from wordpress.org or github. Changes in WPFolio 1.74: If you were using an outdated and unsupported version of php (why would you?), WPFolio will tell you instead of crashing. the search field in admin bar stays in the admin bar instead of appearing just below it Fixes the missing code that mistakenly got out in 1.73 other minor improvements Thanks to Lara Schenck for her work on this. She’s also been answering questions on the wordpress forums so be sure to thank her for [...]

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WPFolio 1.73 – don’t update yet, use 1.74

By Steve Lambert | Published: June 8, 2011

WPFolio 1.73 is was live, but I just noticed a problem with the WordPress updater. It’s updating without  files in the the subfolders of the theme and will then crash the site. Will talk to the WordPress team and see what needs to be fixed. In the meantime, hold off unless you’re updating through FTP. Update: It turns out somehow the 1.73 theme was submitted without some files (my mistake) and released by the theme review theme without those files (their mistake). I’ve submitted a new, complete, version 1.74 which is being reviewed now. Apologies to anyone this caused any trouble for. If you upgraded to 1.73 and your site [...]

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WordPress Audio Player plugin

By Steve Lambert | Published: May 9, 2011

The WordPress Audio Player plugin is a small, simple audio player for playing back mp3 files within your post. You can check it out on the wpaudioplayer site which includes complete instructions on how to upload audio and get it all configured.

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WPFolio workshop in NYC on 5/17

By Steve Lambert | Published: May 2, 2011
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Create Your Own Artist Website With WPFolio & WordPress Led by Michael Mandiberg, artist, designer & educator This workshop will provide artists with the basic skills to create, update & maintain a personal website with WPFolio, a free and open source website theme on WordPress. Step-by-step instructions will be provided to install and configure a portfolio website while participants follow along on their personal laptops. At the end of this two-hour workshop, participants will be able to leave with a basic working portfolio site, ready to be updated with future contents. WPFolio is built by media artist Steve Lambert and a team of open source developers and designed for artists [...]

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Handy “Postie” Plugin allows you to post by email

By Steve Lambert | Published: April 27, 2011

Postie, which allows you to send images as a post to your WordPress installation via email. You can choose categories and add tags as well.This could make it much faster to post your work than clicking and creating multiple posts. It takes some set up but could save a lot of time in the long run.

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WPFolio 1.72 on WordPress.org

By Steve Lambert | Published: April 19, 2011

As of today, you can upgrade WPFolio through the WordPress upgrades area. There’s a lot of great new features. Check out some of them in this post and read on for more.

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Why the Blog Protector Plugin is horrible for artists

By Steve Lambert | Published: March 9, 2011
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The Blog Protector Plugin “Protects your valuable blog content (Pages & Posts) from getting copied” by disabling right click and text selection. So if I want to download an image or copy text, I receive a warning notice. Hopefully not many artists are using this. I believe this whole approach is a terrible for artists. If I am a curator, and I visit an artist’s site, I want to be able to copy an image and save it so I can email it to my colleagues, file it away on my hard drive, etc. If I am a potential buyer of the work, I want to email it to my [...]

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When to use Posts vs Pages

By Steve Lambert | Published: March 7, 2011

I’ve seen a few WPFolio sites that use WordPress Pages in ways they weren’t meant to. I want to clear up when to use Posts and to use Pages. Simply: Use Posts to show art works and news. Use pages for your statement, resume, cv, and contact page. Posts show up in your RSS feed, you can assign categories and tags to them so you can organize your work by media and keywords., and they automatically use the full 900px width of the design. Pages don’t take advantage of your RSS feed. They don’t have categories and tags. Pages in WPFolio have larger margins because they are meant for your [...]

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WPFolio 1.7 submitted to WordPress

By Steve Lambert | Published: February 27, 2011

Now we wait and see if it will be approved. But if you don’t want to wait, you can download it from github. To learn how to install it, watch this video. (Full screen makes it easier to watch)

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Prefer a Slideshow to Lightbox? Try Smooth Gallery Replacement

By Steve Lambert | Published: February 2, 2011

I just found this plugin, Smooth Gallery Replacement which replaces the gallery shortcode with a jQuery slides how. I used on the home page of the artisticactivism.org page so you can see it in action. I think you’d have to choose between this and the Lightbox Plugin for Native Galleries (otherwise there would be a conflict), but it seems like a nice alternative.

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WordPress 3.0.4 Important Security Update

By Steve Lambert | Published: December 29, 2010

From the wordpress blog Version 3.0.4 of WordPress, available immediately through the update page in your dashboard or for download here, is a very important update to apply to your sites as soon as possible because it fixes a core security bug in our HTML sanitation library, called KSES. I would rate this release as “critical.” I realize an update during the holidays is no fun, but this one is worth putting down the eggnog for. In the spirit of the holidays, consider helping your friends as well.

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Help test WPFolio 1.6.5 beta

By Steve Lambert | Published: November 10, 2010

Update – the release has been approved. Thanks! Before we submit our latest version of WPFolio to WordPress for general release, we’d like for you to help us test it. Patrick Carey and I have been working on getting a 1.6.x version of WPFolio released since the summer. Each time we submit it to WordPress we’re made aware of some standard we need to meet. While it’s slowed down the release, it’s made the code better. We’re fairly sure we’ve got all the bugs handled, but things pop up when it gets out into the real world. Would you help us out? Things to know about beta testing You may [...]

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Styling Navigation Background Colors (1.6+)

By Steve Lambert | Published: August 4, 2010

With the 1.6 version of WPFolio I added a drop down menu bar. The default hover and background styles are shades of grey. The background colors in the navigation menu can be changed using your child theme the code snippet below. WPFolio version 1.6 includes a sample child theme for adding your own modifications. These modifications stay separate from WPFolio so you can update and keep your tweaks. The code below should help you get started. Add a color value after “background:” and before the semicolon. You can use hex values (or rgba if you care to be so bold).

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Insert gallery with 4 images across using a child theme (1.6+)

By Steve Lambert | Published: July 31, 2010

When adding an image gallery to a post WordPress’ default is to have 3 images across. While you it’s possible to select 4 across when selecting options for the gallery or by changing the options in the gallery shortcode, it won”t display correctly. If you add the following code to an activated child theme, you can use 4 image across galleries (but be aware your old 3 across galleries will start to look off). WPFolio version 1.6 includes a sample child theme for adding your own modifications. These modifications stay separate from WPFolio so you can update and keep your tweaks.

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Quick and easy way to add video to a WordPress post

By Steve Lambert | Published: July 30, 2010

I just learned this very simple way of adding a video to a post. Just paste the URL on it’s own line like so: Check out this cool video: http://www.yuotube.com/watch?v=nTDNLUzjkpg That was a cool video. WordPress will automatically embed the video when the post is viewed! For more, see Adding Video on WPFolio. Now, how did I not know this before?

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Adding rounded accents with a child theme (1.6+)

By Steve Lambert | Published: July 27, 2010

Read up on using child themes to modify your theme files. If you have trouble, check out the troubleshooting area. WPFolio version 1.6 includes a sample child theme for adding your own modifications. These modifications stay separate from WPFolio so you can update WPFolio in the future and keep your tweaks. One change you may want to add is to add rounded corners to your design. The following code snippet, added to your child theme’s style.css file will add these rounded corners.

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VOTE: How should we move forward?

By Steve Lambert | Published: July 18, 2010

I’ve moved our ticket system to GitHub. Now, you can vote on tickets and provide feedback on where development of WPFolio should go. So, take a minute and check out the tickets on GitHub and vote up what you’d like to see as a priority.

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