Design by JellyBeen » BNS

Ground Floor 1.3.1 Live

Edward Caissie — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:17:20 +0000

The free WordPress theme Ground Floor version 1.3.1 is now live at WordPress.org.

Here is the latest changelog:

Changelog as of Mar 8, 2010
= Version 1.3.1 =
  - modified bns_login function to use wp-login.php to match the BNS Login plugin
  - removed promotional link to the BNS Login plugin at WordPress.org

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    * Internet Browsers Reviewed *
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    *                            *
    * Apple Safari v4.0.4 (Mac)  *
    * Apple Safari v4.0.4 (PC)   *
    * Firefox v3.6               *
    * Google Chrome v4.0         *
    * Internet Explorer v8.0     *
    * Opera v10.10               *
    *                            *
    * IE 6 - basic functionality *
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= Version 1.3 =
  - added "GPL2" license statement to style.css
  - added YUI reset to CSS
  - general clean-up of CSS file (removed most empty elements)
  - added bns_dynamic_copyright()

BNS Featured Tag 1.5

Edward Caissie — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:36:10 +0000

I just uploaded a short while ago the most recent update to the WordPress plugin BNS Featured Tag now at version 1.5.

Here is the recent changelog:

== Changelog ==

= 1.5 =
* added option to set the quantity of the first words of the post to display instead of the default excerpt.
* modified description to reflect new functionality
* slightly increased the size of option panel to better display controls

BNS Featured Tag functions essentially the same as BNS Featured Category. There are a few minor code differences, and the obvious tag versus category selectors. It is usually just a matter of clearing my schedule enough to update the code of one after adding the new functionality to the other. This time it took a few days … busy is good.

Three Plugins to Update

Edward Caissie — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:10:10 +0000

We have finished a review of the current versions of the last three of our plugins and made minor updates to all of them.

BNS Featured Category (version 1.4)
BNS Featured Tag (version 1.4)
BNS Corner Logo (version 1.1)

The modifications added a simple version check against the global $wp_version variable that holds the installed WordPress version number. Currently each plugin will only verify the installed version meets the minimum requirements based on functions being used.

There are future possibilities in creating an incentive for users to upgrade to the most current stable version of WordPress. We will be using this “check” method in all our themes and plugins. This verification process has been added to our BNS Login plugin and will be implemented in all of our existing themes with their next updates.

Sample code snippet for (current as of this writing) version checking:

global $wp_version;
$exit_message='This BuyNowShop theme/plugin recommends the use of WordPress 2.8.4, Please Update!';
if (version_compare($wp_version, "2.8.4", "<"))
	{
		exit ($exit_message);
	}

NB: Current version versus minimum version checks will be added at appropriate times.

BNS Corner Logo 1.0 Live

Edward Caissie — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:28:44 +0000

Our latest free WordPress plugin BNS Corner Logo is now live at WordPress.org. The code was checked in to the repository this morning and is now freely available to be downloaded and/or installed on your WordPress self-hosted blog.

Enjoy!