I am open to working with anyone who wants to help improve this project. It has slowed down a lot since George and I first started working on it, and like me, I am sure he would be more than happy to have more capable hands working with us.

Extract the zip, and upload both folders to your wp-content folder.

Download Handgloves v1.1.1 NOW!

I have posted a download with a preview of 1.2 (no renamed to 1.1.1), in another post.

NOTE: The look of both these will most likely change before 1.2 is available.  More updates to come!

We merged the changes from my earlier post, and added a few others.

New in Version 1.1

• Admin menu to change elements! (developed by Jeremy Boyd)
• jQuery Masonry Comments (developed by Jeremy Boyd)
• Smarter truncation of text in sidebar
• Style for WordPress links (Blogroll)

Coming in Version 1.2

• Alternative colour schemes
• Navigation for sub-pages
• New design features
• Improved CSS

If you have any issues, just post a comment here or at Handglove’s Preview Blog.

When called, it returns a JSON object, or straight, no-style XHTML.

var jsonFeed = <?php
$maxPosts = 15;
$dateFormat = 'l | M jS, Y';
$feedFormat = 'json'; // can be 'html' also
recent_posts($maxPosts, $dateFormat, $feedFormat); ?>;

This will pull back a feed looking like this:

({'posts':[{
  'postname':'This is the best post ever',
  'date':'Wednesday | Jan 6th, 2010',
  'user':'admin',
  'author':'Jeremy',
  'comment':'no comments',
  'blogname':'Super Blog',
  'bloglink':'http://192.168.1.10/superblog/',
  'permalink':'http://192.168.1.10/superblog/2010/01/06/this-is-the-best-post-ever/',
  'thumb':'http://192.168.1.10/superblog/files/2010/01/best_thumb_ever_4.jpg',
  'content':'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed sed ante a eros dapibus tempor.',
  'tags':[{
    'id':21,
    'link':'http://192.168.1.10/superblog/tag/sample-tag',
    'name':'sample tag'
  },{
    'id':22,
    'link':'http://192.168.1.10/superblog/tag/historical',
    'name':'historical'
  },{
    'id':23,
    'link':'http://192.168.1.10/superblog/tag/blog',
    'name':'blog'
  },{
    'id':24,
    'link':'http://192.168.1.10/superblog/tag/interior',
    'name':'interior'
  },{
    'id':25,
    'link':'http://192.168.1.10/superblog/tag/programming',
    'name':'programming'
  }]
}]})

Enjoy and Use!

WPMU Recent Post – Download Now!

I have taken it upon myself to add in an Options section in the admin for it.

You can download the theme here.  If you notice anything wrong with it, let me know.

Handgloves2 – Download Now!

Calling it with fully qualified URLs (starting with http or https) will work without a hitch.

Cross Domain Timthumb – Download Now!

I am familiar with how to customize these themes for regularWordPress, but MU isn’t regular WordPress, now is it?

There were only a couple of places where code had to be changed in the actual theme itself (uploadable logo, etc), but then I ran into timthumb.php.

After messing around with Google for about an hour, I decided to go at it on my own, and the file attached at the bottom is the end result.

It supports MU for sub-domains and sub-folders, and is as simple as replacing your timthumb.php file in your theme (well plus another step).

1. Modify your timthumb_mu_*php files to use the correct database credentials for your blog.
2. Upload timthumb_mu_*.php files to your themes (wordpress-mu/wp-content/themes) directory.
3. Modify timthumb to point to the correct version of the timthumb_mu_*.php
   • folders is for when you use folders
   • subdirectories is for when you use sub directories
4. Upload the modified timthumb.php to your theme (wordpress-mu/wp-content/themes/theme_name) directory.
5. Test the site obviously .

That should be all you need to do to get it to work.

Questions or comments, leave them below.

timthumb_mu.php – Download Now!