Subtle for WordPress

Blogan, on the K2 forums, has posted a great plugin that disables Wordpress 2.2’s built-in widget support so that you can use your favorite widget plugin, such as Sidebar Modules. This is a great temporary solution to the current issue with Subtle not showing widgets correctly on WP 2.2 and is even better for [...]

I haven’t had a chance to install 2.2 yet, but I’m hearing from a few people that the widget API changed so much in the latest version of Wordpress that a number of themes have broken widget support – including Subtle. I’ll be looking into the problem over the next few days. For [...]

A while back I wrote a series of posts on Shooting the Kids about how we moved my mom over to Ubuntu and how she really took to it. She’s still using it regularly, though her main desktop is now my old Mac Mini – which she really loves because of iTunes.
But here at [...]

While getting my nerd on at Shamus Young’s Twenty Sided blog (no – he doesn’t use Subtle), I noticed a link to a site that will tell you how much your blog is worth. I ran “Shooting the Kids” through this thing and it came up a little over 5K. “Not bad!” I [...]

After going through the old forum database and realizing it was beyond hope (taking into consideration the amount of time I have), I decided to put a brand new punBB installation up with revamped forum categories and topics to help make getting help easier. I’ve also installed Akismet spam filtering so we’ll see how [...]

After months of laying low, I think it’s time to finally update the site and get things rolling again for both Subtle and Flickr Feeder. You’ll notice a few big changes around here, and I’d love to hear what you think. I’m sure you have questions, so here are a few some of [...]