And this is it, as you can see in this site, the TwentyTen has been enhanced by AJAX features, just like we did in Smells Like Facebook (try to click a link!). Right now, it comes as a child theme, so you’ll need WordPress version 3.0 above to use it. But soon in the future it will be available as plugin too, if you have another child theme installed already.

How to install? Just like any other theme, you need download the files from link below and then upload it via your WordPress theme uploader in Dashboard. Finally, activate it after it finished. Note: you need to have a TwentyTen themes installed first. This child theme will not work without TwentyTen.

It still has a lot of things to do anyway. But don’t worry, using its own Upgrade Feature which is separated from WordPress default routine, you’ll be notified when a new version is ready. You can visit here to check a new version, just in case the upgrader doesn’t find a newer version for a while

For now, the files available to download here. Any bug or error please leave in comments. Thanks

Wordcamp Indonesia 2011

Puji Tuhan, akhirnya salah satu mimpi saya terwujud. Hari Sabtu & Minggu kemarin (29-30/01) untuk pertama kalinya saya bisa menghadiri WordCamp, event tahunan para pengembang serta peminat WordPress. Gugur sudah salah satu rukun WordPress saya, meski sebenarnya agak sayang, karena bro Matt Mullenweg si empunya WordPress tidak bisa menghadiri event kemarin.

Bagaimana acaranya? Lumayan. Ya, lumayan. Saya belum pernah ikut Wordcamp sebelumnya, jadi tidak bisa membandingkan dengan event sebelumnya. Yang jelas event kali ini yaaa.. lumayan. Materi yang dibawakan banyak yang bagus, meski ada juga beberapa yang, sorry to say, kurang menarik. Kalau mau tahu lebih lengkap jalannya acaranya, silakan baca saja di sana.

Ada Ric Shreves dari Water & Stone yang membawakan tentang bagaimana WordPress memimpin pasar CMS selama 2010. Ada mas Anggi Krisna, pak Zam dari Tokokoo & Jason Ellis dari Theme Forest yang membagi kiat me-monetize WordPress Theme. Serta yang paling banyak ditanyai peserta, Karim Osman, Happiness Engineer dari Automattic yang menggantikan Matt.

Me & Karim Osman of Automattic. Courtesy of Wira Nurmansyah

Venue yang dipilih sebenarnya cukup bagus. Bumi Sangkuriang di daerah Ciumbuleuit Bandung mengingatkan saya pada sejuknya Malang, kota kelahiran saya. Tapi sayang, gara-gara tempatnya yang jauh dari pusat kota, transportasi di sini bisa dibilang agak sulit. Begitu hari gelap angkutan umum yang menuju pusat kota sudah mulai langka. Mau naik taksi juga susah, karena jarang ada yang lewat. Beruntung ada yang mau membonceng saya sampai Cihampelas, tempat saya menginap. Thanks Bil, Wira & Rifky!

Tapi terlepas dari semua kekurangannya, Wordcamp kemarin seru! Bertemu teman-teman baru serta akhirnya kopdar dengan beberapa teman online memang selalu menjadi momen yang menyenangkan. Session WordPress board game juga seru, meski peraturannya masih agak membingungkan. Semoga aja ada yang mengembangkan versi PC-nya, semacam Yu Gi Oh! gitu

Semoga pagelaran tahun depan lebih baik dan menyenangkan. See you on Jogja!

Oh ya, sekedar usulan saja kepada panitia (kalo baca tulisan ini ), kalo Matt ga bisa datang lagi tahun depan, minta ganti Ryan Boren / Mark Jaquith dong

Several times ago, my Smells Like Facebook theme was suspended from being updated in WordPress Theme Directory. It’s still being available to download, but I can’t submit a new version, therefore the theme users can’t get a notification and auto update from their dashboard.

So I try how to override WordPress auto update check routine and make it check the latest version of Smells Like Facebook to my own server. Here’s how:

THE CODE

1. Exclude your theme from the auto update check

I took this from Mark Jaquith blog. This piece of code will exclude your theme when WordPress does a check to WordPress API server. In Smells Like Facebook 2.7, it looks like this:

function slf_prevent_wp_update($r, $url) {
if ( 0 !== strpos( $url, 'http://api.wordpress.org/themes/update-check' ) )
return $r;
$themes = unserialize( $r['body']['themes'] );
unset( $themes[ 'smells-like-facebook' ] );
$r['body']['themes'] = serialize( $themes );
return $r;
}
add_filter( 'http_request_args', 'slf_prevent_wp_update', 5, 2 );

Change the ‘smells-like-facebook’ to your own theme name. Usually it’s a slug name of the theme name.

2. Create the ‘API’ server

Before creating the updating service, first you need to create a URL on your site that will provide the information of current version of your theme / plugin. Note that this page have to provide the link to download the new version.

As the example, for Smells Like Facebook, I create a URL in http://api.nazieb.com/smells-like-facebook/check_update which will show these:

2.7|http://nazieb.com/download/smells-like-facebook-2.7.zip

That line show 2 things; the current stable version of Smells Like Facebook and the link to download it. It’s separated by a pipeline (‘|’) because it will be exploded by the update function.

3. Make your own update check routine

After your theme is excluded from WordPress check routine, you have to make your own one. To do this, you have to know about WordPress pseudo-cron scheduling.

This piece of code will make your own schedule routine:

$next = wp_next_scheduled('slf_check_routine');
if ($next === false) wp_schedule_event(time(), 'hourly', 'slf_check_routine');

Explanation:
- the first line will check whether your routine has been scheduled. ‘slf_check_routine’ is the name of your routine action. The updating function will be hooked to this action.
- and then the second line will register your routine hourly if your routine isn’t scheduled yet

And then the main update function is:

function slf_check_update() {
global $wp_version;
if ( defined( 'WP_INSTALLING' ) )
return false;

if(!function_exists('get_theme_data'))
require_once( ABSPATH . 'wp-includes/theme.php' );

$theme = get_theme_data(WP_CONTENT_DIR . '/themes/smells-like-facebook/style.css');
$options = array(
'timeout'    => ( ( defined('DOING_CRON') && DOING_CRON ) ? 30 : 3),
'user-agent'    => 'WordPress/' . $wp_version . '; ' . get_bloginfo( 'url' )
);

$response = wp_remote_get( "http://api.nazieb.com/smells-like-facebook/check_update/", $options );
list($version, $url) = explode('|', $response['body']);
if($theme['Version'] == $version) return false;
$theme_transient = get_site_transient('update_themes');
$theme_transient->response['smells-like-facebook'] = array(
'new_version' => $version,
'url' => 'http://smells-like-facebook.nazieb.com',
'package' => $url
);
set_site_transient('update_themes', $theme_transient);
}
add_action('slf_check_routine', 'slf_check_update');

Note:
- The ‘url’ in theme transient is not the URL to download the new version. It’s the URL of information page of your theme / plugin. The URL to download is set to ‘package’
- To read more about WordPress Transient, read here
- Don’t forget to hook the function to your routine action

That’s all. Confusing huh? Sorry for my bad explanation, if you have any question leave it in comments.

With Menus now you can specify what links that you want to display in the navigation. It’s now not limited to Page list or Blogroll only, you can combine them as the links.

And Smells Like Facebook newest version, 2.6 now capable to show those menus in your blog. Of course, if you don’t want to use the Menus, the old Page list will appear there.

Want to get the latest version of Smells Like Facebook? Stay up to date there.

Cheers!

The new version of Smells Like Facebook finally arrive. In version 2.5 now you can customize your WordPress to the new layout of Facebook. But if you miss the old school header, don’t worry, you can switch back from the Smells Like Facebook admin page.

This release also celebrating Smells Like Facebook 1st birthday. On April 4th on year ago, I committed myself to upload this theme to the WordPress Theme Directory. Although the Directory finally released to public on April 15th (after several revisions), I still assume that today is the birthday since it’s the day where I stop typing codes for this theme.

Thanks for everyone who use this theme. Thanks for any critics and suggestions coming daily to my inbox. And special thanks for everyone who donated to me, you’ve energized me up!

Also, I’m sorry for the very long delay (the last release was on Dec 31st ). It’s my office job which waste most of my time in these 3 months.

For the download, since the Theme Directory seems suspended my theme account, so I upload the theme to another server.

Download Now!

That’s all. Enjoy!

Adalah mas Mova Nugraha, aktor intelek di balik semua ini (setidaknya begitulah kesimpulan dari website di atas). Dia yang menerjemahkan sekaligus mengirim ke repositori WordPress. Sebelumnya dia telah mengembangkan file bahasa Jawa untuk WordPress yang bisa diinstal secara terpisah. Dan sekarang, dia sedang terlibat dalam proyek translasi Facebook ke dalam bahasa Jawa.

Jujur, tanpa bermaksud SARA, saya sebagai orang Jawa bangga atas hal ini. Meski memang saya masih belum menggunakan versi Jawa tersebut, karena masih nyaman dengan versi bahasa Inggris. Lagipula saya kurang begitu mengerti dengan beberapa kata Jawa yang ada di situ. Istilahnya, wong jawa ga weruh jawane :blush:

Saat WordPress bahasa Sunda dirilis, memang langsung muncul ide untuk membuat versi bahasa Jawa di forum WordPress Indonesia. Saya sebenarnya ikut tertarik waktu itu, tapi seingat saya ide tersebut sempat terkendala oleh beragamnya kultur bahasa Jawa. Meski begitu, versi yang ada sekarang tampaknya sudah cukup bisa diterima. Kalau memang masih ada yang dirasa kurang, sampeyan masih bisa urun rembug kok. Isi saja form contact di sana.

Monggo dipunsekeca’aken

Hello folks, in this very end of 2009 year, the newest update of Smells Like Facebook theme is available. Major changes made to this theme including:

• Fix on unregistered comments. Now if someone which is not registered as member post a comment, no errors will be found.
• Multiple pages post support. The theme now support posts with multiple pages. The <!–nextpage–> tags will split pages correctly, and links to next and previous page will be available below the post content. Note: this is a compulsory for new theme hosted in WordPress Theme Directory
• An anchor that with target “_blank” will open the link correctly in new tab / window. There are some reports that in the older version, the link will be opened ajaxly.

You may see that the update of this theme is very slow. The last version, 2.4 was uploaded on July. I’m very sorry about this, since I have a lot of work to do to feed myself. I also got a serious health problem last month, so I can’t focus myself to this theme. But if you intend to give me some penny, I think I’ll quit my job and focusing on this theme, seriously You can send the donation to my paypal. Every donations is very helpful. I thank you for you who have donated to me

After all, some bugs may still appear. Please let me know if you encounter one. I’m very happy (and also tired ) to see many responses from people about this theme. Thank you for using my work.

Happy New Year, everybody!