Woo-hoo! Custom Menus announced in WordPress 3

The big WordPress scoop of the day is the deal struck with the creators of WooThemes Custom Navigation to include it’s code into the  core of WordPress 3. This is a major addition that will add some really cool functionality.

Currently WordPress only lets you list all your pages or all your posts. There are plugins available  that let you exclude certain pages / categories

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Hot off the Press – Guardian Zeitgeist

I see on the Guardian website today that they have unveiled an interesting experiment they’ve been working on called Zeitgeist (A German word which means “spirit of the times”). They describe it as:

“a new way to reveal and explore content on the Guardian site, according to “social signals” from users.”

Basically news stories are displayed based on how popular the are but is intelligent enough not to simply base it on the number of page views. The algorithms used take into account how much attention the article is getting compared to others in the same category or of the same type, this includes page views, comments, traffic to and from the article, and how much it is spread through social networking.

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Awesome vintage stamp social media icons

I ran across these amazingly well designed vintage stamp social icons at Dawghouse Design Studios and was really impressed. They’re very high quality, and there’s a great tutorial detailing how they were made.

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Phase out IE6 petition signed!

All web developers have a love/hate relationship with IE6, but only since the Chinese attacked Google using an IE6 security hack has the matter really come to the public attention.

So now it’s good to see some pressure being put on our government to show a lead in good practice by phasing out IE6 through their departments. An online petition is now up and ready for signing, and we’d encourage everyone to add their names to this worthy cause.As the instigator writes:

“The German and French governments have started to encourage people to upgrade away from the browser Internet Explorer 6 (IE6).

IE6 has some security flaws that leave users vulnerable. These two governments have let their populations know that an upgrade will keep them safer online. We should follow them.”

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O2 Banner Adverts: They say that imitation…

…is the sincerest form of flattery.

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Cool new features in WordPress 2.9

Ok, so we’re a bit late on with this one, WordPress 2.9 was released waaay back in December, introducing some handy new features. We would have reported it then but we were too full of Christmas (ahem) spirit, and we are now on version 2.9.1. I still think it’s worth mentioning though as these additions are so useful for anyone with a WordPress blog. Most of the changes are little tweaks and improvements but these are the 3 biggies:

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‘Fly’ Catching advertising idea!

The world of advertising with animals took a step in a totally bizarre direction late last year.

Eichborn, a freethinking German company, took the extraordinary measure of attaching tiny banner adverts to flies at a Frankfurt tradeshow, and then unleashing the swarm on the public!

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Free Photoshop brushes from Kino Creative

Yes that’s right free stuff from us to you. We have created a little pack of 6 grunge brushes for you to roughen up your Photoshop creations. Do whatever you like with them, use and abuse them to your hearts content.

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The best viral of 2010?

It’s amazing to think that the best viral of 2010 may have already hit the web, but when Fusion Creative sent this through I almost cried with laughter. It’s so effective on every level; technically smart, great message, smooth exectution, limitlessly forwardable.

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Wordpress: Can’t login to wp-admin

We love WordPress here at Kino Creative, but such a large CMS platform is bound to develop the occasional niggle. If you can’t login to the administration panel then your first port of call should be the WordPress Codex. Unfortunately although the solution worked for us, it didn’t address the underlying problem.

Our problem is that occasionally on our various WordPress sites the wp-admin.php URL login stops working and we can only login through wp-login.php. We tried all the fixes and tracked it down to an issue with cookies.

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