I know I’m quite a bit late to the game. But I finally got around to upgradding wordpress to 2.7. You also very likely noticed that I switched back to the Unstandard theme by Derek Punsalan. I dont know what to say, I just simply like its front page elegance.
I received a “Bug report” earlier today via my nifty submission page, that wasn’t really a bug report, but still warrants some attention.
Basically the question that Mike posed was “How did you get a Wufoo form to work in wordpress?”. The short answer is I didn’t. But the short answer isn’t very helpful. The long answer is that I used an iframe html element to embed the form into a wordpress page, and formatted the Wufoo form (using Wufoo’s built in tools) so that it blended well with the wordpress theme.
You can go take a look at the WuFoo form by itself by clicking the link below.
http://indemnity83.wufoo.com/forms/bug-reports-feature-requests/
Basically, any element of WuFoo that I didn’t want to see on my page, I made white. If you highlight the text starting from the first sentence up, you’ll see that your cursor highlights a few elements (including some text) that I just turned white to hide from normal view.
The trick works well to create a seemingly seamless integration, while leaving all the heavy lifting (IE, the extreemly well designed form) to WuFoo.
So what does the WordPress page look like? Ask and ‘ye shall receive:
<iframe height="1436" allowTransparency="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="width:100%;border:none" src="http://indemnity83.wufoo.com/embed/bug-reports-feature-requests/" title="HTML Form"><a href="http://indemnity83.wufoo.com/forms/bug-reports-feature-requests/" title="HTML form">Your browser doesn’t seem to support iframes, please click here to be taken to the form.</a></iframe>
Mike, I hope that answers your question. Below is a zip with the custom theme I created for my site (as a .css Style Sheet). You should be able to use this file in your own WuFoo theme manager to quickly get an embeddable form (although, admittedly, I haven’t tested it).
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This is great news for users of Gravatar (like myself) since the Gravatar system seemed to not be able to scale their system on their own. For those who dont know, Automattic is the company behind WordPress (both the application and the .com site), Akismet and bbPress. While I can’t say I always agree with some of their decisions regarding feature support, I can’t argue with their ability to scale a service.
I’ve already taken advantage of some of the new features offered by the free service, and linked all three of my email addresses (One personal, and two versions of my Business address). And set separate images on the personal and business accounts.
I think its a good move, and I’m looking forward to seeing where Automattic takes the service in the near future.
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Web sites will Go Pink during the month of October to bring attention to Breast Cancer Awareness Month, get people talking about breast cancer, and raise money for research.But to be clear, raising money isn’t the primary purpose of this web event.
The hope is that you turn your site pink (in whatever way works for your site), go out to that World Wide Web thing (in fact you’re on it right now!
) and educate yourself about the multiple issues related to Breast Cancer, then take that newfound knowledge and tell someone else what you’ve learned.
Please join me in going Pink for October. I’ve created a K2 style for the occasion, and a plugin to show your support for the event.
Grr. So it seems there are lots of problems with the plugins I use also, because the brilliant minds over at WordPress.org decided to restructure both the database, and the admin files. These two changes, in my mind make it so that many plugins, themes and customizations no longer work.
[fa:p:a=photoblog,id=1355572151,j=l,s=s,l=p]Good friend Chris (Chalkbag225) asked me (over a year ago) to setup a blog for him. Its basically Valter Nepomuceno’s “Black Minimalism 1.0″ theme for WordPress, but I made the header image rotate through a bunch of random images.
Its been a year since any new header images had been added, the WordPress version hasn’t been updated since then, and the author of Black Minimalism has released version 2.0 based on K2. So I added a new header image (from a recent backpacking trip I took with Chris). And updated the site & theme.
For those that have never heard of it. The Wayback Machine (now part of Archive.org) is a service that crawls the web, and makes archival copies of websites, providing really cool peeks into the history of a domain. Below are screen shots of my blog as it progressed from the first vanilla version of WordPress into what it is now. The oldest version is on top.
[fa:p:a=website-history,id=1331799451,j=l,s=t,l=p]December 16, 2005. My blog as it first appeared in an almost completely vanilla WordPress Kubrick theme. Click here to be taken to the first post I made to my blog.
[fa:p:a=website-history,id=1331799579,j=l,s=t,l=p]April 27, 2006. The second theme of my blog. I can’t take credit for this theme. I was using a slightly modified version of Simpla by Phu Ly. I guess I never made a post when I changed to this theme.
[fa:p:a=website-history,id=1331799763,j=l,s=t,l=p]February 6th, 2007 Version three of Indemnity83.com. This theme was my design, sorta. I was trying to combine a forum, wiki, blog and gallery into one site with a single theme. The theme is a clone of the Mozilla Developer Center of the same time. It didn’t last long, as I didn’t have enough content to fill the site, and the theme had to many bugs. Related blog post.
[fa:p:a=website-history,id=1332775372,j=l,s=t,l=p]April 22nd, 2007 Version 4 of my blog www.indemnity83.com . Again, a modified version of an existing theme. This one started as Derek Punsalan’s 5ThirtyOne V2 theme. Related blog post.
Dont ask me how to pronouce it, or even what it means. But it sure does seem to do the job.
I typically get a lot of spam comments here on the blog, its why I have comment approval enabled. But after having to go through and purge over 1,000 comments the other day I decided it was time to get proactive about this problem and I configured the Akismet plugin for WordPress.
Two days later… I still haven’t had to delete a single spam comment and as of this post Akismet has blocked 17 comments. Granted its still pretty early to draw any serious conclusions, but so far I’m satisfied. I may even be able to loosen my rules on commenting so that the comments you make will show up when you make them, instead of when I realized you made them and approve them.
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