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WordPress 3.0 BNS Plugin Updates

Edward Caissie — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:14:35 +0000

WordPress 3.0 is now officially in beta … beta1, but its still beta! That means the beginning of the final review and release of my BNS series of plugins. The first two, in no particular order (actually they were alphabetically first on my list) that have been tested compatible with WordPress 3.0 and released to the WordPress.org Plugins repository are:

Simply follow the plugin links to see the latest changelog for each plugin; and, remember to check back to see the release announcements of the rest of the BNS series of plugins.

Following the plugin updates will be the update releases of our themes.

NB: A minor issue in the BNS Corner Logo plugin using non-Gravatar images has been discovered and a temporary fix (version 1.3.1) will be going into the WordPress.org Plugin repository within the hour. EAC.

New WordPress Plugin: BNS Add Widget

Edward Caissie — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:37:27 +0000

I wrote this plugin inspired by a recent topic on the WordPress Support forums. I would like to thank Danylo for the discussion that lead me to the idea.

Here is the description for the BNS Add Widget plugin:

Add a widget area to the footer of any theme. Works just like the widget areas commonly created with code in the functions.php template file.

It essentially just adds a widget area to the footer of any theme by “hooking into” the standard WordPress function wp_footer(). This plugin will allow other plugins, like my BNS Corner Logo, to work when the active blog theme does not have its own built-in widget areas.

BNS Corner Logo 1.2

Edward Caissie — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:34:18 +0000

I’ve just finished committing the changes to the free WordPress plugin BNS Corner Logo. The significant change for this update is the addition of support for your Gravatar. Currently the Gravatar that will display, if the option is checked, will be the default administrator’s gravatar, that is the one associated with your blog’s User-ID=1.

Here is the recent changelog:

== Changelog ==

= 1.2 =
* completed Gravatar implementation - displays Gravatar associated with user-ID 1 (main administrator)
* added plugin specific style sheet (required by Gravatar implementation)
* noted suggested maximum pixel size of Gravatar but no restrictions set
* updated screenshot of option panel

… and here is the new look of the option panel:

BNS Corner Logo Option Panel as of version 1.2

New WordPress Plugin: BNS Corner Logo

Edward Caissie — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:28:11 +0000

I started working on this plugin shortly after I started using WordPress well over a year ago. At the time, I had no idea I was actually working on a plugin, it was just a bit of code to add a logo to the bottom right hand corner of the screen. I have used the code a few themes since, but only on my own web sites. I have also gladly given the code to whomever asked.

A few times the suggestion was made to turn this code into a plugin, and once again an idea was born, just took a bit longer than usual to give it life.

I tracked down my old code snippets and looked at what may be beneficial for others to use. I see a great deal of potential in this plugin. There is the obvious, displaying a logo, or any other image for that matter. There is also the possibility for graphic ads; special links to other pages or web sites; highlighting a special event; plus many more …

… read more about the plugin on its page here that also includes some screenshots.

BNS Corner Logo went live on the WordPress.org Extend Plugins repository this morning, Sep 2, 2009 at version 1.0.