Archive for 2009

KISSCMS (v0.1)

April 19th, 2009 by Makis

A CMS lightning fast to setup and easy to use – based on KISSMVC, the simple PHP MVC framework. The main goal was the creation of an environment to easily add new content on a website while lifting the unnecessary barriers of extending it, as found in most popular CMSs.

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Version: 0.1
Language: PHP
File size: 20,8kb

WordPress Plugin: Author Categories (v1.0)

April 10th, 2009 by Makis

Numerous people are using WordPress for blogging and in many cases there are more than one authors on a website. It’s uncomfortably surprising that WordPress doesn’t support out of the box a category menu for each author separately.

I was looking for this feature online for my personal need but couldn’t find it on any plugin. To be exact I was using a modified version of another similar plugin but that was until version 2.3 where the database structure changed for WordPress and it simply stopped working.

As I saw it, it wasn’t worth fixing old, deprecated (and highly cluttered) code, and there weren’t any other solutions out there, so I decided to create a new plugin. Thankfully the new database and API made it as easy as I had hoped for.

I ended up with this plugin, that was created as a wrapper of the default category menu.

It is lightweight and can easily plug-in, plug-out. Furthermore, being an extension of the default category menu, means that none of the functionality (sorting, post count etc.) is lost. In fact it can be easily extended and could support future versions of the blogging platform for years to come.

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Version: 1.0
Language: PHP
File size: 4,87kb

Template Blocks: Version 1.2

February 3rd, 2009 by Makis

In this (almost) anniversary release, l tried to include most of the small bugs that appeared after using this application for about a year.

To mention a few:
- Improved parsing of remote XML in administration area
- File locations are now more accurately defined
- Included new globals:TEMPLATE_DIR, TEMPLATE_PATH, TEMPLATE_URI
- Moved conditions for running the engine in a seperate function (checkPaths)
- Better support for custom location of the template folder
- Other improvements for overall better performance…

Read the rest of the release note

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Version: 1.2
Language: PHP, JavaScript
File size: 199kb