GetSimple Plugins

Published February 1, 2010 9 Comments 0 Delicious Bookmarks

This is a list of my GetSimple 2.0+ plugins. Since I am the main developer of GetSimple, you can be assured that these plugins will always work with the latest version.
Installation Instructions
To install, you just place all the plugin’s files and folders directly into the /admin/plugins/ folder of your GetSimple installation. Any plugin you add [...]

Free WordPress Installs for Everyone!

Published January 18, 2010 0 Comments 1 Delicious Bookmarks

I’m going to try and do something a little different for my business model here: I’m giving my WordPress expertise and service away for free. That’s right, FREE. There is a catch (there always is though, right?). This is only for newcomers to the internet world.
The reason for this stipulation is I plan on [...]

Wordpress Plugin: WPMU Protect Pages

Published December 26, 2009 2 Comments 0 Delicious Bookmarks

When creating a new project of mine, I needed a way to protect certain page ids from being deleted because I was hard coding them into my WPMU themes. I was using the WPMU Blog Templates plugin, and after figuring out what IDs those new “pre-setup” pages were, I needed a way to protect them [...]

Download: FamFamFam Silk Companion II Icon Pack

Published October 19, 2009 4 Comments 17 Delicious Bookmarks

silk-companion-II

Introducing the Silk Companion II Icon Pack. While developing a new CKEditor skin for GetSimple, I had a need for some extra Silk icons developed by Mark James at FamFamFam. Out came 64 new silk-inspired icons. These icons are released under the same Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License as the originals.
Damien Guard created the [...]

Tutorial: How to Implement Uploadify into an Application

Published October 15, 2009 23 Comments 10 Delicious Bookmarks

How to Implement Uploadify into an Application

Last week I showed how to implement Jcrop into an application. In this tutorial – which also pulls from my experiences developing GetSimple – I implement the jQuery plugin Uploadify.
In this tutorial, we create a simple file upload script that also displays an unordered list of the files in the upload directory. The list of [...]

Tutorial: How to Implement Jcrop into an Application

Published October 10, 2009 4 Comments 6 Delicious Bookmarks

How to use Jcrop from within an Application - Tutorial

When creating the ‘image control panel’ for the latest version of GetSimple, I decided to integrate the wonderful Jcrop jQuery plugin into it. Amazingly, there are very few tutorials online that show the full extent of how to use Jcrop in real world situations. The only one I found that was of use was TalkInCode’s [...]

GetSimple CMS Launched!

Published July 31, 2009 6 Comments 0 Delicious Bookmarks

I haven’t posted here for a while because I’ve been working on a project called GetSimple. GetSimple is an XML based lite Content Management System. To go along with it’s best-in-class user interface, we have loaded it with features that every website needs, but with nothing it doesn’t. GetSimple is truly the simplest way to [...]

The New & Improved Way to Turn Wordpress 2.7 into a Membership Community

Published February 5, 2009 61 Comments 146 Delicious Bookmarks

Pittsburgh Designers

Last March I wrote an article for WPDesigner (then subsequently republished it here) detailing the ways you could use a base install of Wordpress (then on version 2.3) into a membership directory with the help of just a few plugins. This worked, and still works beautifully for me over at my Pittsburgh Designers community site. [...]