Punta Cana Update
We released a small bug fix update for WordTwit last week (2.2.4) which supresses an error sometimes seen by those using WordTwit with WPtouch.
WPtouch and Themes
We’ve said it before and it bears repeating: Themes for WPtouch is a lot more difficult than it may seem.
Since we’re aiming at WordPress 2.7 and higher we’re going to take advantage of the parent/child theme capabilities in WordPress. Wherever possible and practical we’ll always favor support for native WordPress capabilities and features.
This means that if WordPress introduces something like thumbnails in posts functionality (forthcoming in WP 2.9), we’ll add support for it over other third party solutions.
Cutting down on plugin bulk is something we enjoy about WordPress, making great (former) plugin features and capabilities a part of its core and reducing the need for third party solutions to be added in order for a smaller subset of functionality (like post thumbnails).
It’s a tough thing because some plugin developers that have their work enveloped into WordPress may have had other ideas. We think that the whole nature of a plugin for WordPress is to fill or add functionality which is ‘essential’ for a subset of users. Occassionally (and more often, progressively) the subset becomes wanted by almost the entire WP community, and such features should then be a part of the core.
Themes are tricky with WPtouch for a number of reasons, but most notably the way that our users can choose, apply, customize and maintain themes requires significant code and UI considerations.
We just simply won’t put out a half-baked solution. Its not the BNC way and it’s not what people have come to expect when using our plugins. So rest assured when it does arrive (and it indeed will) Themes and WPtouch will be enjoyable, easy to use, and powerful.
We’re back on the horse this week, and we’ll continue to update and improve existing branches of our plugins while we work towards re-launching the website, support forums, and larger plugin updates.
6 Comments
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I just hope you can find a way to add support for template pages some time soon ;)
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Can you expand on the “take advantage of the parent/child theme capabilities”?
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BNC Design Guru
3 months, 1 week
Lowlight, can you explain a little more? What don’t we support with templates?
Example, we mean that for example WPtouch will support using a parent package theme and child themes, such that a parent theme would have variations off of it. For example the current WPtouch theme (parent) could have color schemes applied through the use of child themes. Users cam therefore build complete themes (parents) or just create a child theme that tweaks the main theme to their liking.
In either case they’ll be custom themes that can be saved and will obviously survive upgrades.
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Great looking plugin, and this may save me from having to develop an iphone app ($$$). Only problem I have right now is my site will not show the child pages.
I have a video page, and then there are around 10 pages as a child page of the parent video page, all with youtube videos on them.
I would think I could choose videos from the menu, and the child pages would show on the videos page, like it does normally.
I am testing on safari with the user agent set to Mobile 3.1.2.
If I can get this configured, I am set!!
Am I missing something, and thanks in advance.
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BNC Design Guru
1 month
The current version doesn’t support child pages, but we’re working on implementing it.
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I just installed and activated WordTwit. I put in my login info for twitter and selected local for shortening, however any new link i click on says error 44. Also, it has posted missing argument 3 for WordTwit on my website. How do I get this up and running?
