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Clip-Share Template Mod

admin — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:31:52 +0000

This is a mockup for a customized template for the Clip-Share media sharing application. It’s still in the development stage, but features include a wide screen featured video player with thumbnail scroller selector, two smaller featured video players for items such as Latest Video and Most Popular and a jquery login slider.

Wordpress Plugin – Create Posts from RSS Feed

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:39:03 +0000

I have modded the extremely handy Wordpress RSS Digest plugin that was developed by Sam Charrington. The original RSS Digest plugin was designed to create a “digest” post from a select number of items from any RSS feed automatically. I made a few changes so that instead of generating one post containing all the RSS items returned, it instead now creates a new post for each item returned.

It’s a quick and simple way to populate your blog with numerous posts. It can be used to fill in new related content while you work on your featured articles. I am currently working the kinks out of having the plugin handle multiple feed sources. It currently can handle two distinct feeds with each installation.

You can see it in action here.

*Update: The plugin worked out so well that I have created a virtually maintenance-free website out of it. Check out Hollyweirdo.com to see it in action.

Here is a screenshot of the plugin settings screen:

Mootools Slide Log In Form

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:48:09 +0000

I’ve been poking around the mootools site wondering how I can use their collection of nifty javascript tricks on any of my sites and I finally settled on using their slide transition effect to add a little fun to a simple log-in form.

There’s nothing too tricky here, as I simply lifted the code from their demo page and added it to my site. The only tweak I gave it was to start the div out hidden, making the user click the link to show the form. To do this, simply add “.hide()” to the end of var mySlide = new Fx.Slide(’test’); line so it should look like this:

var mySlide = new Fx.Slide(’test’).hide();

Hope I didn’t lose you there. I know it’s complicated.

I realize this adds little to nothing to the functionality of the site, but it sure is fun! You can check out an example here.