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AdTools 2 Years Later

Jeremy — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:46:30 +0000

2 years ago, I launched a service called AdTools. It was never meant to be used by anyone but me, but instead of spending a lot of time to lock it down to myself, I opened it up to the world. I never mentioned it to anyone, never marketed it, just used it on all of my craigslist postings. I had maybe 1 support email a week from it (which I thought was amazingly high) for the first few months, so I made it a little more friendly (still ugly, just friendlier).

Since then I have received 5 emails total. I think I did a damn good job with my user experience mods to it.

Well now it has been 2 years, and I was just about to shut the site down (I figured it wasn’t being used). I logged into the server to check on the last AdTracker created, and I was flabbergasted! Just 5 minutes earlier, so I start digging through the log, and found that I have 100 users, 1,000 trackers and 100,000 Ad Views counted!

I had no idea that this site was nearly as popular as it was.

Handgloves 1.2 is Coming

Jeremy — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:05:15 +0000

I can only divulge a few details, but prepare yourself for widgets in the sidebar and finally support for tags in the post’s meta data. Don’t take my word for it, check the screenshots!

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!

WPMU Recent Posts

Jeremy — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:46:50 +0000

Hey guys, I just finished a WPMU plugin that brings back recent posts from across the blogs on your site.

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

var jsonFeed = ;

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!

Handgloves2 – Handgloves with Theme Options

Jeremy — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:27:19 +0000

As I mentioned in a previous post about my favorite WordPress themes I love the Handgloves theme, but I have a few problems with it (like haven’t to manually edit the navigation file.

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!