Author: Brandon Kraft
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Book Review – Redemption
I recently read Redemption: A Rebellious Spirit, a Praying Mother, and the Unlikely Path to Olympic Gold by Bryan Clay, which struck me in light of Lance Armstrong and, to a point, the Manti Te’o girlfriend developments. Clay is a gold-medal decathlete, winning in Bejing in 2008 and released this autobiography prior to his 2012 Olympic attempt.…
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I’ve Made WordPress Better (And You Can Too!)
I did it. WordPress, as many of you know, is an open-source project. The WordPress community maintains it. Anyone can report a bug directly into the development tracking tool (Trac), anyone can submit a patch. It’s great. I’ve been wanting to contribute to core (as the “core” WordPress software is known, as opposed to plugins,…
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Genesis eNews 0.1.6 and Genesis Minimum Images Extended
Two new releases in the plugin department. I released Genesis eNews Extended 0.1.6 over the weekend. This enables, for all users, the ability to add fields for first or last name. If you downloaded the beta version (0.2-beta1 or similar) there are no changes. I downgraded the version number as my roadmap for 0.2 was…
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Genesis eNews Extended v0.1.5 Released
Version 0.1.5 of the Genesis eNews Extended plugin is now public. This version features an option to let the confirmation screen open in the same tab. Check it out using my subscribe form. This setting will work for all non-Feedburner lists. Why not FeedBurner? FeedBurner assumes a new window. The confirmation screen includes a “Close…
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Genesis eNews Extended Announced
Over on the StudioPress blog, you’ll read about Genesis 1.9 depreciating the native FeedBurner e-mail subscription widget and recommending Genesis eNews Extended. I love StudioPress’ themes—they look great, have solid logical structure for customizing, and a great community surrounding the product. Earlier this year, I ran into a problem. I wanted to use their stock…
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On This Day, 15 Years Ago
15 years. For those who only know me from the interwebs and only care about either freelancing or web development, indulge me today. If you’d rather not read a personal story, feel free to move along. The next post will be on message, I promise. You can delete the e-mail now. No hard feelings. 15 years ago…