We’re out of town on vacation this week, family coming down from Seattle and Boise to go to the SD Zoo (yesterday), Sea World (today) and DisneyLand (next 4 days). Here are my favorite pics from the last two days.
Cut from my post on this “Page Searching examples” thread on the wp-hacker’s list and a continuation of Jared and my conversation on a previous post.
Here’s what I propose, knowing it’s most likely not going to happen
but it will alleviate: user expectation, not bloat the core with
“unnecessary” options and more importantly the patch [I assume] will
only be a few lines of code:Let’s have Wordpress’ default search include:
* Posts
* Pages
* Tags
* Meta fields
* Attachment Fields (title and description)
…this is what I strongly believe the author expects search results
are pulled from.THEN,
Have the community (maybe me) create a plugin that will provide
options for the user to exclude, limit or include more from the core
search.All this without requiring the any new options panel.
Pretty much the exact opposite of what’s being done now, except it
will help the average non-plugin wordpress user and the wordpress user
that doesn’t know how the default search works. Whom are the people
I’m thinking about when I make these suggestions or comments, not the
wp-hackers who can write a plugin or the above average .org user
swamped with plugins.Then again, what about the wordpress.com user?
[These are only suggestions and should not be taken as a directive nor
was any of it meant to be condescending or rude to anyone on this
list. Thanks]–Dan Cameron
http://dancameron.org
[Updated 10/5]
Version 2.0 was just released.
Version 2.0 – multiple mobile browsers supported
After a week and a half of hard work Jared and I committed Version 1.0.2 to Wordpress Extend. we lapsed and forgot to test the plugin on the 2.2 branch and now we’ll need to pull it back for a later release when we get everything straightened out for the majority of users.
Mobile Admin started it’s development shortly after Matt requested on the [wp-hackers] mailing for the community to create an iPhone Admin theme in response to the MovableType iPhone beta theme released just a days prior.
Jared did the majority of hard core coding and I centered around the interface and CSS. Since I was the one with the iPhone I was the lucky one to exhaustingly check in and test new CSS changes for testing on the phone, since there aren’t any good development tools for iPhone devs; iPhoney is phony before anyone suggests it.
Here’s the current trac project home for bugs and management.
Here’s the support and suggestion forums. If you have an iPhone we really need your suggestions so please throw them out to us there.
Or if you have any contributions or changes you’d like to make directly just contact us.
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.
Details:
iPhone / Mobile Admin UI for WordPress?
The plugin home page is on WordPress Extend.
Contributors
Jared Bangs and Dan Cameron
Gives a mobile-friendly admin UI to browsers by User Agent. The iPhone is the primary supported device for the first release.
Description
Mobile Admin adapts the WordPress? admin UI to be more friendly to mobile devices, specifically phones. The iPhone is the primary target (and only supported device) for version 1, with more to come in the future.
Most common WordPress admin features are supported:
… with more to come in later revisions.
Other resources
Please submit all usage questions to the support forums
The Trac server can be used for viewing changes and submitting tickets
SPECIAL NOTE – Testing and bug reporting is especially encouraged, as only one of us currently owns an iPhone.
I’ve started selling links on my own as well as on Text Link Ads because I could both give a better deal to the buyer and not worry about that 50% cut they’re taking. All-in-all I’m making some good money off TLA, I just hope it keeps up since it’s paying for my hosting and a tech toy each month. Which is great since I’ve made more in the month of November then I ever have with these stupid text ads through Yahoo!; which I’m probably going to take out soon, maybe after I meet the quota in order to get paid.
Thanks to all my sponsors and more importantly thanks to all my readers, subscribers and plugin/theme users for making it happen.
You like?
Just a couple fixes and it should be done.
This one should resolve the faults of the current theme, including how the drawers for activity and elsewhere look. Hopefully they are more usable. And a new feature with using the “drawers” on the post pages I can now include the activity and related … Read More »
March 12
Thinking about another re-design. Only this time it will be really easy to do since I know exactly how to go about coding it. What I’m going to do is the real problem.
Thoughts on what I want:
Little lighter, with a “light switch”. (theme switcher)
Variable width
Wider single column
For the “sliders”:
?Sidebar slideouts?
?Sidebar hidden elements?
Just within the links in the new header
Header ideas:
Three … Read More »
March 02
I forgot to post about how the release of Dan Cameron 2.0 was to corresponded with my 2 year anniversary for blogging. The date of my first post was on February 18, 2004 but could be debated because when I moved from .mac to movabletype I had to guess-tee-mate the post dates, so even though the 18th might have not been “Best Buy not a Best bet“’s original post date it was an approximate date. And since I will never figure out the exact date of my first post I claim February 18th as my blogiversary.
Speaking of blogiversaries, Mr. Stryker has his coming up on Saturday and promised to go to wordpress. Nathan is one person that I’ve begged to move to WP for commenting alone. He has some great posts with some great comments and it is so hard to keep track of what is going on over there with what he has right now. I’ll show you the life of mind: deuce blogilo coming Saturday the 25th
Made everything a little darker today to make Dan Cameron 2-point-oh almost complete. I was contemplating making the site more image rich but I still like the idea of only having two images in the entire template and being more css driven with only a few images (header and gradient background) rather then wrapping everything. … Read More »
February 19
I setup a brand new theme. I couldn’t help myself since I can now have rolling archives. it’s just so damn great, thanks Michael and Neo.
A few things you should notice: The rolling archives of course, the activity is larger and more in charge now, the tag and elsewhere dropdown (just click the link above the top post), inline asides, and the best thing ever a “AJAX”/DHTML drag and drop form field for commenting.
The comment form is my favorite part. I really found out that I need to learn more about coding and CSS. It took me 30 minutes to figure out that the solution to all my problems was a relative:position for the box, it took me so long to figure that out and I just happened to think of it before I found it worked. Go check it out, I love it.
As for the people wondering about Sca4ered, I most likely will stop the development on it, maybe release my old theme as the replacement and I will release this theme later but it will not have my style/my colors. Before that I need to figure out how to make the drag and drop comment form a plugin for others to use. Any help to where I should look would be great.
So what do you think?
Dear Apple CEO,
First I want to say that I do not clarify myself as a maczealot but others might. I do love your products but I think two things are continuously hurting you.
One. Even though you tend to be very innovative or one of the first companies to embrace new technologies, you don’t pursue the arenas that need your help. Those arenas: Smart phones, make a smart phone, if you can create an mp3 player that demands attention and be the developer of the best consumer OS, why not? Also, whenever you get around to pushing out that video iPod you need to get into home media; either a video airport express, set-top box or better yet create a “media center edition” for the mac mini.
Second. You’re solely a hardware company, release OS X. Or even better create a portable OS X (especially for the Treo, ;D). But if you need to so you can make great products then I guess I’ll let you slide.
Dan Cameron
P.S. If you want to give me a job where I sit around and just tell you what I think I would work for free, well, as much as you work for free.
