The Envato Marketplace Items plugin retrieves items from an Envato Marketplace and API set of your choice, then caches those results in your WordPress database before finally displaying the results as an image gallery of 80px square thumbnails. You can view examples of what the plugin does by checking out the sidebar of any Envato Marketplace blog and look at the Popular Files section. A quick note, the code for those sections is in the functions.php and it is not currently using this new plugin, but they are basically the same code just less option oriented since we only need them to use one API set and not pull ...

I recently added an updated version of the is_page_or_sub() function now called is_page_or_ancestor() to the plugins directory over at WordPress.org. The new version of the function is a recursive test to see if the page ID or name you pass into the function is actually the current page or one of its ancestors. Basically you can test to see if you are viewing an ancestor of the About page and if so execute some code (i.e. change a pages class or id). I use this function on my site and pretty much on every other site I've ever built. However, the only different is this new code is leaner and will test ...

Finally, all five of the Envato Tuts+ sites have now been switched to the new theme and updated branding, and I just completed the much anticipated Flashtuts+ the other day. The staff in charge of content are feverishly getting ready for a launch, which should be anytime now. So many exciting things have been happening over at Envato recently. A couple new tutorial sites, a new marketplace and one of the coolest things in my opinion to happen in the last few months is the addition of a completely new Tuts+ dashboard and redesigned members section. Now when you sign up for the plus program you only pay ...

Well, I have been very busy these last few months and completely neglected this blog, so in the spirit of trying to get back on the horse I’m gonna start things off with some good news. Collis Ta’eed, Chris Moyer and I successfully launched the new Psdtuts+ web site today! Wow what a Wordpress theme that was. Thankfully everything went off without a hitch and the new theme has found a home on the net. Apparently when I turned off maintenance mode the Psdtuts+ community was waiting, comments have been rolling in all day about the upgrade and it seems to be an overwhelmingly positive response to the changes Collis and I made ...