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Envato Marketplace Items 7 Oct 2009 | 11:55 pm
The Envato Marketplace Items plugin retrieves items from an Envato Marketplace and API set of your choice, then caches those results in your WordPress database before finally displaying the results as...
The New Creattica Daily 1 Aug 2009 | 01:07 pm
Creattica Daily has gotten a pretty sweet makeover, not that it wasn’t already awesome. Collis (CEO of Envato) was itching to try out a new larger 1200px wide design, and one that will pretty much upd...
A Sneak Peak of the New Freelance Switch! 1 Jun 2009 | 12:47 pm
UPDATE: Sites Live… After many months of hard work, Collis Ta’eed (design), Mathias Meyer (Rails), and I have reached the final stages in pre-launch testing for the new Freelance Switch. Within a wee...
4 Reasons to use Web Standards 30 May 2009 | 08:54 am
First, lets start with some sort of definition of what Web standards are. In my best effort to encompass the concept in a short phrase, Web standards are the guidelines most widely accepted on the Wor...
Added Plugin to WordPress Directory 30 May 2009 | 02:21 am
I recently added an updated version of the is_page_or_sub() function now called is_page_or_ancestor() to the plugins directory over at WordPress.org. The new version of the function is a recursive tes...
Is Category or Subcategory WP Function 29 Apr 2009 | 10:26 pm
Here is another great WordPress function to test if you are in a subcategory or the actual parent category and if so return true. This function is pretty much identical in concept to the is_page_or_su...
Valen Designs Gets an Overhaul! 11 Apr 2009 | 10:45 pm
I’m very happy to announce the redesign. Over the past year or so since the last update things have really been progressing and my portfolio is looking very respectable with a few projects that I am v...
Is The MacBook Missing Something? 24 Mar 2009 | 06:33 pm
More people are using Macs as their personal computer of choice these days. Mac has effectively marketed itself as the all-your-bases-are-covered computer brand and are supposed to be powerful and eas...
Is Page or Subpage WP Function 21 Mar 2009 | 11:47 pm
Have you ever wanted to know if the page you’re on is a child of a certain page because you needed to know that information in order to add a snippet of code to the sidebar or remove something or what...
Tuts+ Network Gets Complete Makeover 18 Mar 2009 | 01:54 am
Finally, all five of the Envato Tuts+ sites have now been switched to the new theme and updated branding, and I just completed the much anticipated Flashtuts+ the other day. The staff in charge of con...