WebDev3000 » CMS http://www.webdev3000.com web design, freebies and more Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:07:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Videola http://www.webdev3000.com/videola/ http://www.webdev3000.com/videola/#comments Tue, 28 Jun 2011 07:45:51 +0000 Codrut Nistor http://www.webdev3000.com/?p=981 I don’t know about you, but I think that a really good book simply doesn’t need a movie adaptation. For example, I simply wasn’t able to watch Dune after reading Frank Herbert’s books. If I have to eliminate one of the following – music, video and text – it’s always the video part that goes out. I know it may sound strange, but that’s my personal opinion and I’m not going to change it anytime soon. Well, my personal opinion doesn’t stop me from writing about video-related piece of code, so here’s Videola!

Built on Drupal and open sourced, Videola is, as far as the official mumbo-jumbo goes, “an enterprise-level video management system and video delivery platform. It allows you to create paid-access or free-access video websites which can serve video to the desktop, mobile, or television-based devices.” This piece of code allows you to easily create your own video streaming website using any business model you consider best – subscription (Netflix On-Demand style), ad-supported (Hulu style) or rental (Blockbuster / Amazon style). Obviously, you can (and should, I guess) use your own video content…

… so if you got enough videos ready to be streamed, I think the features at your disposal should be more than enough – Videola offers quite a few of them, including extensive video analytics, HD/adaptive bitrate/secure video streaming, user queues, listing of similar videos on each page, option to show video previews to non-subscribed users, in-stream ads and even iOS & Android compatible mobile streaming via WiFi or 3G. Awesome!

In case you’re still wondering, you should know that Videola works with all major browsers, including mobile ones, requiring that you have PHP & MySQL up and running on your server. A demo can be accessed right here. That’s all, folks!

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]]> http://www.webdev3000.com/videola/feed/ 1 Jigoshop http://www.webdev3000.com/jigoshop/ http://www.webdev3000.com/jigoshop/#comments Tue, 21 Jun 2011 07:22:09 +0000 Codrut Nistor http://www.webdev3000.com/?p=976 These days, a lot of people seem to be selling their souls – not to the devil or another imaginary entity – it’s all about crushing your own principles and nothing more. To be honest, I can’t say I know anyone who managed to never break his/her own rules, but at least I know a lot of people who are struggling to avoid that as much as possible. In the end, it’s not always the outcome of the fight that matters, keeping your banner high no matter what is also very important and that’s exactly why I love to discover new online stores showing up here and there during these tough times – some of them will fall, others will take off successfully and, in case you want to get into the business without spending too much, WordPress and Jigoshop can be a great combo to set your new online store in motion!

More than just looking great and offering a bunch of features everyone will enjoy to get, Jigoshop comes for free, but delivers much more than one would expect! The official mumbo-jumbo goes like this: “Jigoshop is an eCommerce plugin for WordPress developed by professionals with years of experience delivering online shops for global brands.” Its rich set of features includes themes and extensions, multilanguage support, advanced reporting capabilities, excellent support forums and documentation, powerful and easy to use orders tracking system, multiple currency and shipping options, even the ability to calculate tax by location, all right out of the box!

Offering support for Moneybookers, PayPal and cheque payments, Jigoshop only requires WordPress (obviously!), MySQL and PHP to be up and running on your server, being available for a quick download right here. Oh, yeah – in case you want to mess with the demo for a while, go here. That’s all, folks! ;)

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]]> http://www.webdev3000.com/jigoshop/feed/ 0 Lubith http://www.webdev3000.com/lubith/ http://www.webdev3000.com/lubith/#comments Thu, 09 Jun 2011 14:30:02 +0000 Codrut Nistor http://www.webdev3000.com/?p=966 Can you believe that some people pay up to 100 bucks or more to some self-titled “designers” who don’t work at least 20 minutes to “create” a WordPress theme? I didn’t do such a thing, but one buddy of mine did it a few times – in the end, it’s not a fool the one asking, but the one paying, especially since we’re only talking about starting with some theme already available and changing it here and there, not building one from scratch! Well, today I’ll give everyone something to think about – Lubith can do a lot for free… so if you’re planning to pay for a WordPress theme, at least be sure you’ll get an original one, not just a painted old crow, all right? ;)

No need for any other introduction – Lubith is a Web-based WordPress theme editor that, unfortunately, only seems to work with Firefox and Chrome, but it surely gets the job done! By using it, you’ll save a lot of time and money, since it requires no coding, it’s completely free and sports an intuitive interface. Even more, if “intuitive” is not easy for you, there’s also a tutorials section on the official page, available right here. For now, it’s only one there, but we’ll surely have more in the future, I have no doubt about it…

Other than the above, I should add that, in case you’re feelin’ lost, the support forum will surely help you – it’s not really crowded there as I write this, but most issues reported get answers pretty soon and, in the end, that’s what really matters – to learn how to master Lubith as soon as possible, so maybe you can create some WordPress themes for others in need and ready to pay for it, right? Good luck with that and anything else you may have in mind!

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]]> http://www.webdev3000.com/lubith/feed/ 0 WD3K Ajax Sliding Contact Form 1.0 released http://www.webdev3000.com/wd3k-ajax-sliding-contact-form-1-0-released/ http://www.webdev3000.com/wd3k-ajax-sliding-contact-form-1-0-released/#comments Wed, 25 May 2011 21:10:51 +0000 Csaba Kissi http://www.webdev3000.com/?p=952 Hello,

Warm day today. But also a WP one ;)  What’s new in the WordPress kitchen ?

I would like to introduce first version of the WD3K Ajax Sliding Contact Form plugin.

This plugin generates nice jQuery powered sliding contact form in the left border of your WP blog. Contains client side validation and Ajax powered mailing, so no page refresh is required. Admin section allows you to configure all form labels including error messages and form status messages. The plugin is based on Contactable (jQuery Plugin) By Philip Beel.

More information and download link can be found in wordpress plugin repository here. Enjoy it !

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]]> http://www.webdev3000.com/wd3k-ajax-sliding-contact-form-1-0-released/feed/ 15 WD3K sexy social 0.9 released http://www.webdev3000.com/wd3k-sexy-social-0-9-released/ http://www.webdev3000.com/wd3k-sexy-social-0-9-released/#comments Fri, 20 May 2011 20:59:31 +0000 Csaba Kissi http://www.webdev3000.com/?p=944 Hello,

Today I released the initial version of my new wordpress plugin named WD3K Sexy Social.

Plugin places animated social icons under your WP posts and let your users to share your posts on many famous social network sites. Currently following social networks are supported:

  1. bebo
  2. delicious
  3. digg
  4. facebook
  5. friendfeed
  6. google
  7. google_buzz
  8. linkedin
  9. myspace
  10. netvibes
  11. newsvine
  12. reddit
  13. stumbleupon
  14. technorati
  15. tumblr
  16. twitter

I added a bit of jQuery code to make it animated. New version will contain one more animation style so you can select the one you like. Feel free to post your comments and requirements about this new plugin.

Looking for demo ? Just take a look bellow this post and share it ;)  You can download the plugin here.

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It was pretty simple to understand it, I was just under stress and that makes me do stupid things. So what’s the proper order…

  1. Create new directory in tags folder (dir name  = version number e.g. 2.1.0) in your WP repository
  2. Copy all files to this directory
  3. When you’re done with step above, commit all changes to trunk directory

It’s very important to follow these steps in proper order because if you won’t, it will mess up WP plugin update engine completely. One more thing… Don’t forget to update version numbers in your readme.txt and main plugin file itself.

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]]> http://www.webdev3000.com/having-issues-upgrading-your-wordpress-plugin/feed/ 0 About Me 3000 widget ver.1.98 released http://www.webdev3000.com/about-me-3000-widget-ver-1-98-released/ http://www.webdev3000.com/about-me-3000-widget-ver-1-98-released/#comments Mon, 16 May 2011 15:26:17 +0000 Csaba Kissi http://www.webdev3000.com/?p=936
Hello,

Today I released few minor upgrades for About Me 3000 widget. The latest one is 1.98

Whats new ?

  • Added Flickr profile
  • Added Xing profile
  • Added Posterous profile
  • Links now open in new window

Currently I’m thinking about new features requested by users mentioned in my previous posts, so feel free to comment here and let me know what you like , what you don’t or what you would like to see in next versions.   I’ll try to implement as many of them as possible ;)

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]]> http://www.webdev3000.com/about-me-3000-widget-ver-1-98-released/feed/ 3 WD3K Give Feedback plugin released http://www.webdev3000.com/wd3k-give-feedback-plugin-released/ http://www.webdev3000.com/wd3k-give-feedback-plugin-released/#comments Sat, 14 May 2011 16:56:37 +0000 Csaba Kissi http://www.webdev3000.com/?p=929 Hi,

Today I released initial version of the small WP plugin named WD3K Give Feedback.

What does it do ?

Well… This plugin creates “Give Feedback” button in the right bottom corner of the post page. After click, it’ll redirect user to the comment box on the current page.
I added there a bit of jQuery for setting transparency when you move your mouse over the button (animated).

You can see the example right here in the right bottom corner ;)

You can download it here

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]]> http://www.webdev3000.com/wd3k-give-feedback-plugin-released/feed/ 8 OSClass http://www.webdev3000.com/osclass/ http://www.webdev3000.com/osclass/#comments Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:03:52 +0000 Codrut Nistor http://www.webdev3000.com/?p=908 No matter how tough the economic situation may be, there’s one thing that applies almost every time: those who really want to work always find something to do. For the others, the crisis is always a good reason to rub the mint and complain about how tough their life is. Well, I won’t be able to provide anyone with a job in this article, but I can surely provide webmasters with a pretty good free & open source application that has the purpose of helping you create and manage a classifieds website.

Today’s subject, OSClass, was built using PHP and MySQL and, according to its official page that I just mentioned, it provides all “you need to easily create your own classifieds website.” With a bunch of sector-specific extensions for cars, jobs, dating, real estate and so on, OSClass allows you to easily create lists, not to mention that it can display any type and amount of items, all inside a customizable interface sporting flexible theming support, a few themes being already provided with the setup package.

Integration doesn’t look bad at all, since you can easily add Google Maps or PayPal into the equation, not to mention breadcrumbs navigation and a bunch of other goodies that I’ll leave for you to discover. Obviously, there’s no need to install the whole OSClass package to get a quick taste of it, since a demo can be quickly accessed by clicking here. I guess that’s all, folks – feel free to share your opinions on OSClass with the rest of us here, don’t be shy, all right? ;)

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]]> http://www.webdev3000.com/osclass/feed/ 0 WordPress Mobile Pack http://www.webdev3000.com/wordpress-mobile-pack/ http://www.webdev3000.com/wordpress-mobile-pack/#comments Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:15:00 +0000 Codrut Nistor http://www.webdev3000.com/?p=880 Writing on your own blog can be quite fun and, in the long term, can turn in a pretty good source of income, too – at least if you’re doing it right and you also get a bit lucky… but as your number of readers increases, the nightmare starts! Unfortunately, I’m not talking about spam – that’s only a minor issue. The real problem is that a lot of users also mean a lot of devices loading your blog – computers, mobile phones, tablets… so if you notice that a serious percent of your WordPress-based blog use mobile phones, having WordPress Mobile Pack at hand is as vital as having enough water with you in the desert!

According to the official mumbo-jumbo, WordPress Mobile Pack “is a complete toolkit to help mobilize your WordPress site. It has a mobile switcher, themes, widgets, and mobile admin pane” currently at version 1.2.4 and compatible with WordPress up to 3.0.5. After 101 user ratings, WordPress Mobile Pack has 4/5 stars and a total of 166,189 downloads, with 2,533 last week. Not bad at all, if you ask me…

… but in case you’re still wondering about all the components of this pack, here’s a quick roundup: a standard mobile theme, a mobile switcher, custom color variations, a set of advanced themes for Nokia and WebKit devices, device adaptation capabilities, a mobile admin panel, a mobile ad widget, mobile analytics, automatic listing on mpexo and a few extras that I’m sure you’ll be delighted to discover.

At last… I guess I don’t have to tell you that WordPress Mobile Pack is freely available, right? That’s all for today, folks! ;)

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