Posted inWebdesign

Announcing MoviePress

Today I’m announcing MoviePress, a plugin for easily adding movie (information) to your WordPress based weblog or website.

MoviePressadds the following functions to WordPress:

  • Items as custom post type
  • Item categories
  • Item tags
  • Item fields for things like persons, label etc
  • Built-in Amazon.com linking (associates)

The first public release of MoviePress will be in Q3 2011.

BookPress will be free of charge and licensed under the GPL2 license.

Posted inWebdesign

Announcing BookPress

Today I’m announcing BookPress, a plugin for easily adding books (information) to your WordPress based weblog or website.

BookPress adds the following functions to WordPress:

  • Items as custom post type
  • Item categories
  • Item tags
  • Item fields for things like writer, ISBN etc
  • Built-in Amazon.com linking (associates)

The first public release of BookPress will be in Q3 2011.

BookPress will be free of charge and licensed under the GPL2 license.

Posted inWebdesign

Announcing PortfolioPress

Today I’m announcing PortfolioPress, a plugin for easily adding a portfolio with items on your WordPress based weblog or website.

PortfolioPress adds the following functions to WordPress:

  • Items as custom post type
  • Item categories
  • Item tags
  • Item fields

The first public release of PortfolioPress will be in Q3 2011.

PortfolioPress will be free of charge and licensed under the GPL2 license.

Posted inWebdesign

Announcing ReviewPress

Today im announcing ReviewPress, a plugin for easier writing and managing reviews on your WordPress based weblog or website.

ReviewPress adds the following functions to WordPress:

  • Reviews as custom post type
  • Review categories
  • Review tags
  • Microformat support (hReview 0.3 support and support for Google Rich Snippets)
  • Link to the source of the review (like a product)

The initial public release of ReviewPress will be done this month – August 2011.

ReviewPress will be free of charge and licensed under the GPL2 license.

Posted inBooks, Computers

The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7

Next week (8 august 2011) Apress will publish the book The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 (ISBN13: 978-1-4302-3135-6 ). The book will be 1112 pages phat and will be available as printed and e-book (in  the following formats: EPUB, MOBI, PDF).

Apress has given me the opportunity to review this Drupal 7 book. I expect the review to appear later this month on my blog.

The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 is the most comprehensive book for getting sites done using the powerful and extensible Drupal content management system. Written by a panel of expert authors, the book covers every aspect of Drupal, from planning a successful project all the way up to making a living from designing Drupal sites and to contributing to the Drupal community yourself. With this book you will:

  • Follow practical approaches to solving many online communication needs with Drupal with real examples.
  • Learn how to keep learning about Drupal: administration, development, theming, design, and architecture.
  • Go beyond the code to engage with the Drupal community as a contributing member and to do Drupal sustainably as a business.

What you’ll learn

  • Launch a community-ready site in fifteen minutes.
  • Talk to stakeholders and architect a site’s structure and functionality around the goals it must achieve to successfully launch major enterprise sites.
  • Find, evaluate, and configure modules to extend Drupal’s functionality.
  • Theme inspired designs into functional, future-proof templates.
  • Build modules when you need to extend what Drupal can do beyond the thousands of solutions already coded by others.
  • Work with Drupal sustainably as a professional and as a participant in the Drupal community.

Who this book is for

Anyone who has heard of Drupal and has a personal or professional reason to learn more: from Drupal administrators, themers, and developers to moonlighters and intense hobbyists. People considering a solo or collaborative career making websites will find this book their complete stop for Drupal.

More information about this book can be found on Apress book site, www.apress.com/9781430231356.