Nieuwe site NOiV gelanceerd!

De nieuwe website voor Nederland Open in Verbinding (NOiV) staat live. Tezamen met het Utrechtse bedrijf Eend heeft Burobjorn de website van NOiV op basis van WordPress Mu ontwikkeld. Hierbij was Burobjorn verantwoordelijk voor het opzetten van WordPress Mu inclusief de structuur, het ontwikkelen van op maat-gemaakte functionaliteiten zoals een filter systeem en het omzetten van de door Eend aangeleverde HTML en CSS (conform de Webrichtlijnen) tot WordPress templates. Het ontwerp van de site is door Maaike de Laat ontworpen.

Fixing WordPress and MySQL Charset Problem with bbwp2utf8

I just released version 1.0 of bbwp2utf8 plugin on the wordpress plugin directory.

If you have issues with your blog with strange characters appearing due to a MySQL database Character Set not being UTF8 in combination with WordPress, then this might be the solution for you:

bbwp2utf8 will attempt to convert a wordpress or wordpress mu database with content in whatever character set to utf8. It uses the information provided by this guide on the wordpress codex site.

This solves the issue with weird characters due to UTF8 encoding issues as seen in the screenshot below.

Development for this plugin is made possible by VPRO Digitaal and started after encountering numerous solutions including other plugins and none providing a 100% workable solution. If you need any help with this plugin, do not hesistate to contact me. My company is available for hire

Note: Keep in mind that this plugin has been tested thoroughly for wordpress mu, but only minimaly for wordpress. Please contact me if you encounter any issues with WordPress, patches are always welcome.

Visit this link http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbwp2utf8/ to download the plugin or to get more detailed info.

Make sure to have a working backup of your wordpress (mu) database before using this plugin!

Pre-release of bbmutag: a wordpress mu tag plugin

I’ve been working on a wordpress mu tagging plugin, which will be released under the GPL license . It might seem useless with the upcoming changes in WordPress MU where tagging will probably become is part of the core, but for those using older versions this might be useful. It’s been tested on WP MU 1.2.1.

I still need to iron out some quirks here and there with the generated documentation and (lack of) usage examples (do I hear templates), but as the saying of free open source software goes: ‘release early, release often’ . So consider this version to be the pre-official release of my WordPress Mu tagging plugin. If you need any help with this plugin, leave a comment and I’ll try to help you out.

This plugin was made possible by the generous support of VPRO Digitaal.

Download bbMutag, a tagging plugin for WP MU