Category Archives: Wordpress

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Manage Facebook tabs and iframes with a wordpress plugin

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Some of you may be aware that Facebook have been threatening/promising (depending on your point of view) to change their current setup , again, by removing the FBML (Face Book Markup Language) and instead reverting to the use of iframes.  this is for a few reasons that we dont really care about as what matters to use is:

  • Will it make life harder or easier
  • How much harder or easier
  • Can I do it myself without paying vast sums of money?

The answer is…maybe. But if it is difficult this rather cool wordpress plugin will help. Called the FaceBook Tab Manager it allows you to configure a tab for Facebook in WordPress and then copy and paste it into Facebook.  This should allow WordPress lovers a much more familiar and convenient way of managing a Facebook page (we hope!)

Heres how it looks :

Manage Facebook tabs and iframes with a wordpress plugin

And heres the official description:

The Facebook Tab Manager allows you to create landing pages and other types of content to be displayed within Facebook, particularly within the tabs that appear on Facebook business pages and pages for other types of organizations. This provides a way of putting more interesting layouts and functionality into your Facebook pages, without the need to get too deep into fancy programming.

The Facebook Tab Manager was specifically designed to take advantage of a recent Facebook page redesign that added support for iframe tabs on Facebook pages. Optionally, you can now also specify content to be displayed on an associated canvas page.

Tab content can include any WordPress content, including output from Shortcodes and other plugin functions.

Nice one!

Quality Control WordPress theme Ticket system

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I love finding WordPress themes like this. Not your average website/wordpress theme, churned out , daily grind crap, rather, something just a little more interesting.

Quality Control Wordpress theme Ticket system

It just takes someone a little creative to think up a smart idea and spend some time presenting it well. Spencerfinnell (@spenncerfinnell on twitter) has done just that with this free WordPress theme that can be used as a quality control or ticket system. Hes purposely kept it light to allow for user customisation and with a nice design and layout it means it can be integrated or branded as required.  It may have some bugs that still need ironed out but Spenncer realises that and is continuing to support it so expect those to be dealt with in due course (if there are any!)

Well done Spencer, great job and nice work.

WordPress and Thesis talk GPL and the debate over license

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From time to time this issue raises its head in the blogosphere and it pretty much came to a head recently. Its interesting to see the difference in the points of view of the supporters of Open Source and those that work on it but sell theirproduct in the typical fashion, namely for profit and their reasons and issues with this process.

WordPress GPL

WordPress, developed by Matt Mullenweg has a General Public License (GPL) which means that it is distributed freely to all and as such it has allowed development from 1000′s of people who are part of the user base and community. With 11.4 million users out there hosted on WordPress and an estimated 12 million more on self hosted solutions it has established itself as one of the top platforms to use for a blog or website.

Thesis Theme

The Thesis Theme by Chris Pearson has been developed and sold as a separate entity (164 dollars for an unlimited license) but it is based on the WordPress platform. It has an estimated 27,000 users and is NOT under GPL (apparently it is as of recently but I’m still seeking confirmation on this.)

Chris as a business person is arguing that he isnt beheld to WordPress, the license and is resisting the GPL. Have a listen to the debate, arranged by Andrew Warner in the vid and see how you feel on the two sides to the story.

Personally I think Matt came across as more convincing and with a stronger basis for the “correct” thing to do in this particular situation. What do you think?