If you're in the market for a quick and simple way to display a Gravatar in a WordPress sidebar then check out the recently released Gravatar Widget plugin, as seen on WordPress.com.
Some of the features of the plugin:
One question I am frequently asked about HeadSpace is whether there are any guides. The HeadSpace page lists the ones that I'm aware of and now includes two nice articles that were written by Andrew Kolyvas and posted on Site Sketch 101:
Thanks Andrew!
Earlier on this year Matt Mullenweg got in touch to see if I was interested in doing a bit of work for Automattic, with the idea of allowing people to post to their blog using email. I jumped at the chance and after a few months of part-time tinkering and a shock exposure to MIME, out came Post by Email and an introduction to the vagaries of spam.
Today marks my first day working full-time as a 'code wrangler' for Automattic. As a prelude to this the past three weeks have been spent manning the support desk at WordPress.com, which has been enormously useful in learning how WordPress.com works.
Suffice to say that I'm very excited about what's coming up, and I'm looking forward to working with the rest of the team. There's a whole bunch of good stuff going on and after having spent four years using WordPress, writing about WordPress, and developing more than a few plugins for WordPress, I can't wait to get stuck in.
So finally, after an extended development period and many people asking 'are you ever releasing it', I've released the theme files for the Guangzhou WordPress and bbPress theme.
As I say elsewhere:
Guangzhou is a two-column fixed width theme for both WordPress and bbPress. It is highly configurable, with two widget areas (sidebar and bottom), as well as customisable skins and many other options. It supports threaded and paged comments, making for very flexible discussion pages, as well as separating pings and trackbacks from comments - essential to keep the flow of conversation consistent.
All of my plugins should now be WordPress 2.8 compatible. For the majority of them the only issues involved were based on the use of the WordPress SQL escaping function. Previously I was calling this statically:
wpdb::escape
A bad habit I probably picked up from somewhere back in the WordPress 1.5 days that has stuck around. In WordPress 2.8 this function no longer works statically. The simple fix is to change it into:
$wpdb->escape
Theme: Guangzhou