Archetyped

Though it wasn’t a computing powerhouse, the iMac G4 definitely had one thing going for it– an LCD screen that could easily be repositioned with just one finger. Ever since I first played around with one of those years ago (way back in 2002), I’ve always wanted to experience such an ease of use […]

It’s hard to keep working on the plugin when I find out that a new version of Wordpress has been released.
Lot’s of cool stuff from a user and developer standpoint. Read the announcement.
Sounds like there’s a lot of new goodies for plugin developers. I don’t know whether I should keep working on my […]

I’m currently working on the Content Types feature of my CMS plugin for Wordpress. As previously discussed, I think this is an important feature for a CMS that is truly extensible and flexible enough to be used for any purpose.
At the moment, I’m working on determining the best way to define a Content Type […]

Last night I reached a point where basically had all the core functionality I wanted for Lists. I uploaded it to the live server, and it worked equally well on my PC and my mobile phone. Awesome.
When I started working on it today, I felt that it still wasn’t quite as “dynamic” as […]

I’ve recently started working on a simple web-based application in the hopes of solving on of (my) life’s little problems, which I am currently referring to simply as “Lists”.
The Problem: Whenever I talk to others, I’m always hearing about new things– restaurants I should try, movies I should see, books to read, etc. If […]

Compared to other content types, media types (video, image, audio, etc.) are differentiated by certain characteristics:

Media files generally need to be uploaded to the server
They can be embedded in other content (posts)
They require specific markup to be displayed

It is because of these special characteristics that content types classified as media are not treated the same […]

One of the best things to come out of beta testing this plugin in a real-world situation is the advent of new features. Had I been developing the plugin in complete isolation, it’s quite likely these new features could have been implemented completely differently (or not at all).
There are several little enhancements and optimizations […]

Development has continued steadily on the CMS plugin for Wordpress. I am currently beta testing it on some projects to help me better develop this plugin for real-world use. The first of these projects is a site for an international film festival called Cinema Paradise.
So what did the CMS plugin do for the […]

Things have gotten a bit busy around here as of late, but I’m still working on building a more efficient interface for managing content. I have eschewed Wordpress’ default single-column interface for a more “explorer-like” two-pane file manager. The left pane will list the hierarchy of Sections. When a section is selected […]

While the interface I’ve built may work fine for small sites, I realize that it would not work so well with sites that have a lot of content. For sites with large amounts of content, pagination would be pretty necessary, as would a way to filter what posts are displayed.
I’ve started thinking about how […]