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Lightbox Plus version 1.6.9 Released

March 20, 2010 by Dan Zappone Leave a Comment

I’ve just released version 1.6.9 of Lightbox Plus. It addresses a couple of issue that became apparent rather quickly. Here’s the changelog:

1.6.9

Fixed problem with styles in IE 6/7/8 not working under various circumstnaces (hopefully)
Added the option to disable Lightbox Plus from adding it’s own styles allowing the user to place Lightbox/Colorbox styles in their theme stylesheet and reduce number of files loading.

You can find downloads for Lightbox Plus at wordpress.org and 23systems or download [Download not found] directly.

If you require support you can go to the Lightbox Plus message board.

New Lightbox Plus Release, version 1.6.8

March 19, 2010 by Dan Zappone Leave a Comment

Lightbox Plus version 1.6.8 has been released. It fixes several issue such as the double rel=lightbox[] tag that was being generated. I also fixed some issues with the style sheets especially the back end style sheet for the admin panel and the IE 6 specific style sheets in some of the themes.

The main new feature that I added was the ability to auto-lightbox links to images that did not have an image in the link (i.e. text links to images.) I also added additional control over the width and height of images which can allow for interesting display options and different handling for long text.

Lightbox Plus now also works with WordPress MU. It has been tested with version 2.9.2 of WordPress MU and works quite well. It can be enabled globally or individually.

Full list of changes below.
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Support Forums Back Up

March 19, 2010 by Dan Zappone 1 Comment

After a lot of wrestling with bbPress I finally got the message forums back up and running. There were three plugins that were causing various problems ranging from a 500 error on the server to screwing with the output on the pages and causing html not to be rendered. They were promising plugins and I will look at them again in the futrure – adSense for bbPress, bb SEO Tools, and Google Sitemap Generator. In any even I’m happy to have that problem behind me for now and hope that people will continue to make use of the message boards.

Support Boards are Down

March 17, 2010 by Dan Zappone Leave a Comment

For some irritating and unknown reason the support boards are down right now giving a 500 error for no obvious reason. If anyone has any bright ideas I’d certainly be happy to entertain them. Will post when they are working again. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Speeding Up WordPress

March 6, 2010 by Dan Zappone Leave a Comment

Over the past week or so as part of the project I am working on I wanted to speed up a WordPress site that is being used as a CMS. During this process I discovered a two methods (well three technically) that can be used to dramatically shorten the load time for content and speed up WordPress. These tweaks will only work with Apache though they may work on a Windows version of Apache it has not been tested. One method only requires editing your template files while the other requires that you are able to edit your .htaccess file. The first two methods work by compressing data before sending it and the third uses plugins that do a variety of things to speed up WordPress.
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FLIR for WordPress v0.8.9.1 – Updates Facelift, admin panel, speed improvements, Javascript Loading

March 1, 2010 by Dan Zappone Leave a Comment

I’m pleased to announce the release of Facelift Image Replacemen for WordPress version 0.8.9.1. Among other things Flir for WordPress includes and update to Facelift bringing it up to version 2.0b3, all JavaScript has been move to the footer to improve load speed, the admin panel has been updated for ease of use and quick links to support, general speed improvements to Facelift and FLIR for WordPress have been incorporated.
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Lightbox Plus 1.6.7 – Auto-lightbox images missing title, Interface updates

March 1, 2010 by Dan Zappone Leave a Comment

I’m pleased to announce the release of Lightbox Plus 1.6.7 for WordPress. Change log details are below.

1.6.7

Added fix to auto-lightbox images that are missing title attributes (Thanks Jörn)
- This primarily affects images that were placed using older verisons of WordPress
Interface updates
- Changed admin panel to work that same way as my other plugins and thereby ease code maintainence
- Quick links in plugins list
- Added additiona support and FAQ links to admin panel
Readme and faq update
Actually includes ColorBox 1.3.6 which some how was replaced by 1.3.1 in last release (1.6.6) for which I apologize.
Includes lightbox-plus.pot for language translations for interested parties.

You can download it from wordpress.org or 23systems download [Download not found] directly.

As usual you can get support at the Lightbox Plus message board.

Facebook Rewrites PHP Runtime For Speed

February 4, 2010 by Dan Zappone Leave a Comment

On Tuesday, February 2nd, Facebook announced a new runtime for PHP, called HipHop. It was rumored that this project was an under the table sort of thing. However it turns out, HipHop is not just a runtime, it’s also a new webserver and has been powering 90 percent of Facebook’s servers for months now. Starting this Tuesday evening you should be able to a look at the GitHub respoitory for HipHop, the HipHop wiki or join the HipHop developer mailing list.

Lightbox Plus 1.6.6 – JavaScript in footer, load speed improvement, Colorbox Update

February 1, 2010 by Dan Zappone Leave a Comment

I’m pleased to announce the release of Lightbox Plus 1.6.6 for WordPress. Change log details are below.
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Lightbox Plus 1.6.3 released – Fixes jQuery issues with Featured Content plugin

October 13, 2009 by Dan Zappone Leave a Comment

Lightbox Plus 1.6.3 has been released to address issues with jQuery conflicts especially with the Featured Content plugin. Here are the latest changes.

1.6.3

Eliminated conflict with Featured Content plug-in
- Removed jQuery.noConflict() due to poor implementation on my part.
- Kept $lbp jQuery variable.
jQuery conflicts should all be resolved – hopefully.
Minor modification to wp_enqueue_script function cal to include colorbox version.
Now works with WordPress Mu if rel=lightbox[] is added manually.
- Working on solving auto lightboxing issues with WordPress Mu

You can get it from wordpress.org or 23systems download [Download not found] directly.

For support please see the Lightbox Plus message board.

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