Xavisys Acquires Attackr.com – Web Development News Network
Xavisys, a professional WordPress development company specializing in website design, custom module programming, WordPress themes, and ecommerce solutions, has acquired the blog site Attackr.com to add to their media and publishing division. Xavisys was founded by Aaron Campbell six years ago in Phoenix, Arizona, and is also the design group behind WebDevNews.net. Attackr.com is a collective of tech bloggers working primarily in WordPress development offering news, “how to” guides, and plenty of tips and tricks. Web developers are encouraged to share their thoughts, experience, and design tips on both Attackr.com and WebDevNews.net, and to participate in the Open Design Community.
Xavisys
Xavisys was started in 2002 as a web development firm specializing in custom PHP solutions for web applications, and subsequently began focusing in web design and web development for Open Source Content Management Systems. According to company founder Aaron Campbell, “the experience doing things from scratch helps a lot when it comes to creating custom solutions for an Open Source project.” Aaron is a PayPal Certified Developer, and many of their clients seek advanced ecommerce solutions with integration of the PayPal API. Xavisys creates modules and plug-ins for WordPress, as well as WordPress themes, and is also developing for the Magento, Joomla, and Drupal platforms. After launching WebDevNews.net this year as a place for blogging on web development news and information, the company has recently acquired Attackr.com. It is hoped that the partnership and shared communication between the sites in the Xavisys network will lead to enhanced personal and creative partnerships among Open Source developers, as well as increased business to business networking.
Xavisys - WordPress Plugins:
WordPress Google Analytics Plugin
Provides an easy way to integrate Google Analytics into your WordPress Blog
Download: http://xavisys.com/2007/02/wordpress-google-analytics-plugin/
WordPress Twitter Widget Pro Plugin
Add Twitter feeds to your WordPress blog, including friends, profile images, & link parsing
Download: http://xavisys.com/2008/04/wordpress-twitter-widget/
Google Maps for Wordpress
Easily integrate Google Maps displays into your Wordpress blog and customize the settings
Download: http://xavisys.com/2008/04/google-maps-for-wordpress/
WordPress Gallery Widget Pro Plugin
Displays rotating images from a post’s gallery in the sidebar of your site
Download: http://xavisys.com/2008/05/gallery-widget-pro/
WordPress Reorder Gallery Plugin
Modifies the Wordpress “gallery shortcode” to allow you to manually reorder the images in embedded gallery slideshows. This was included into WordPress 2.6 core and is only needed for WordPress 2.5.x
Download: http://xavisys.com/2008/05/wordpress-reorder-gallery-plugin/
WordPress Mark Parent Pages Plugin
Adds collapsible menus to WordPress by inserting custom CSS tags in list displays. This was included in WordPress 2.5 core, and is only needed for older version of WordPress
Download: http://xavisys.com/2008/01/wordpress-mark-parent-pages-plugin/
Validate Empty Wordpress Posts/Pages
Fixes tag wrapping in empty pages, preventing them from being invalidated
Download: http://xavisys.com/2008/01/validate-empty-wordpress-postspages/
Xavisys – Image Free Templates:
Minimalist:
An extremely light weight, configurable template, with no images at all
Download: http://xavisys.com/2008/01/free-template-minimalist/
BlueBox:
A simple, fluid width, imageless, XHTML Strict 1.0 template
Download: http://xavisys.com/2008/01/free-template-bluebox/
Attackr
Attackr.com evolved from a partnership of WordPress developers active in the Open Design Community, and is a place for web designers to share news, information, “how to” guides, technology reviews, and personal thoughts on the development scene. The site has a core group of bloggers that post on these topics, and is open for new members who would like to share ideas on the platform. The Attackr theme is one of the best I’ve seen for WordPress, which is not surprising as that is the specialization of the design team behind the site.
Some more SILEX - usage statistics & new ressources (en / fr)
Statistics to go!
In September SILEX has been installed in the following countries: Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Korea, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia.
Also in September, on the 1405 downloads, 141 installations have been made online and about 400 on local computer. For the online websites: Europe 60% - North America 30% - (27% France - 26% USA)
Over 30% of these installations have been made by webdesign agencies.
In October SILEX has been downloaded 2454 times, 75% increase as of September and 173% increase as of August.
New on silex-ria.org
With the new “subscribe” button on the silex-ria.org home page, choosing your mailing list is no longer a mission.
For this occasion, you have 2 tutorials (in French for now, still looking for translators):
You can find samples in the package “silex-samples” on SILEX website.
New documentation pages
- How to create a page? Yes, with an icon! (in French for now, still looking for translators)
- Tutorial “create a return button” for lovers of the past
Join us
- Positions are open for translation, design, animation, development, tutorial …
=> contact@silex-ria.org
Links
Archive news
SILEX official website
Download SILEX
SILEX Resources
List of themes
List of samples
Vote for SILEX feature requests (beta version)
+++ SILEX team
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Silex en rajoute !
Le petit cafouillage entre Mailing List et Newsletter est rétablit. Mais rassurez vous, d’autres surprises vous attendent…
En avant les stats
En septembre Silex a été installé dans les pays suivant : Allemagne, Australie, Bangladesh, Belgique, Bosnie Herzegovine, Bresil, Canada, Colombie, Corée, Danemark, Espagne, Estonie, Etats-Unis, Finlande, Grande-Bretagne, Grece, Hongrie, Italie, Japon, Lituanie, Pays-Bas, Perou, Pologne, Portugal, Roumanie, Russie, Serbie.
Toujours en septembre, sur les 1405 téléchargements, il y a eu 141 installations en ligne et environ 400 en local. Pour les installations en ligne, la répartition est :
- Europe 60 % / Amérique du Nord 30 %
- France 27 % / USA 26 %
Plus de 30% de ces installations sont faites par des agences de webdesign.
En octobre il y a eu 2454 téléchargements soit une augmentation de 75% par rapport à septembre et une augmentation de 173% par rapport à août.
Du nouveau sur silex-ria.org
Avec l’apparition du bouton “s’inscrire” sur le site silex-ria.org, choisir sa liste de diffusion n’est plus une mission. Le déchiffrage se fait en douceur.
Pour cette occasion, vous sont proposés 2 tutoriels.
- mettre en place un composant d’inscription à une mailing list
- faire un formulaire de contact dans son site SILEX
Vous trouverez les samples qui leur sont associés dans la distribution “silex_samples”.
Liste des samples
Du nouveau dans la doc
- Comment créer une page ? Oui, avec une icone !!!
- Tutoriel “créer un bouton retour” pour les amateurs du passé
Joignez vous à nous
- L’appel à contribution : traduction, design/animation, developpement, tutoriels
=> contact@silex-ria.org
Liens
Archives des news
Site officiel de SILEX
Téléchargement
Les ressources
Liste des thèmes
Liste des samples
Voter pour les futures fonctionnalités (version beta)
+++ SILEX team
Adding a YouTube Button to FCKeditor in Drupal
This is a reference article for adding a YouTube button for automatic video uploads in Drupal with FCKeditor. Basically, there are a few small issues that I ran into when setting up the plugin, but the process is simple and quick. If you want to give embedded video support through the WYSIWYG editor, without having your users cut and paste the embed code through the source directly, then this method may be of interest.
1. Install and configure FCKeditor in your Drupal installation.
2. Download the YouTube Plugin for FCKeditor at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/youtubepluginfo/
3. First Change – the documentation for the plugin says to upload it into the:
fckeditor/editor/plugins folder
Disregard this and upload it into the upper level folder of the Drupal FCKeditor module. The path should be:
sites/all/modules/fckeditor/plugins/youtube
4. Download and open the fckeditor.config.js file from the main module folder.
5. Add the following code to the end of the file, at the very bottom line:
FCKConfig.Plugins.Add( 'youtube', 'en,ja' ) ;
6. Add the YouTube button to your FCKeditor configuration, i.e. if you are using “Drupal Full,” “Drupal Basic,” “DrupalFiltered,” or whatever, change the fckeditor.config.js file to add the button like this:
BEFORE: FCKConfig.ToolbarSets["Default"] = [ ['Image','Flash'] ] AFTER: FCKConfig.ToolbarSets["Default"] = [ ['Image','Flash','YouTube'] ]
7. Save and upload the modified fckeditor.config.js file to the site.
8. If you test the module out now (clearing the cache & refreshing the JavaScript), the button will display, and a pop up will load – it is a single screen that says “YouTube Property” and has a single text field for pasting the embed code from YouTube.
The problem – after pasting the code, and clicking “ok” – the window just stalls, it does not submit and it does not close.
9. Fix for this – in the “youtube” folder of the plugin, there is a HTML file named “youtube.html”. In the header, you will find the code:
<head> <title>YouTube Properties</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta content="noindex, nofollow" name="robots"> <script src="../../dialog/common/fck_dialog_common.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="youtube.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <link href="../../dialog/common/fck_dialog_common.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"> </head>
For whatever reason, the file structure is incorrect here, so I entered the full path to the files on the server. Example:
<head> <title>YouTube Properties</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta content="noindex, nofollow" name="robots"> <script src="http://www.example.com/sites/all/modules/fckeditor/fckeditor/editor/dialog/common/fck_dialog_common.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="youtube.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <link href="http://www.example.com/sites/all/modules/fckeditor/fckeditor/editor/dialog/common/fck_dialog_common.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"> </head>
10. Now – return to any page where the FCKeditor is enabled, and test the “YouTube Button” – it works perfectly.
References:
YouTube Plugin: http://sourceforge.net/projects/youtubepluginfo/
FCKeditor: http://www.fckeditor.net/
FCKeditor Module for Drupal: http://drupal.org/project/fckeditor
Note:
If you have the time, you can also vote on the question: “Should FCKeditor change its name?” at the fckeditor.net website.
According to the site – 58% of the people surveyed said that the name should be changed, for whatever reason.