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 ...

Creattica Daily has gotten a pretty sweet makeover, not that it wasn't already awesome. Collis (CEO of Envato) was itching to try out a new larger 1200px wide design, and one that will pretty much update and maintain itself without the need to post daily roundups or cost tons of cash since the site has not been very profitable. Don't worry though, the Creative License comic will still be going strong for all who enjoy some good clean humor. As well, there will continue to be plenty of content to sink your teeth into, it will just be pulled from various sources around the web vs. manual submission.

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UPDATE: Sites Live... After many months of hard work, Collis Ta'eed (design), Mathias Meyer (Rails), and I have reached the final stages in pre-launch testing for the new Freelance Switch. Within a week or two we will have thoroughly tested the staging site to account for what I'm hoping is almost all bugs. The site is the mashup of three different applications and a seriously cool plugin. Below I'll let you in on what technologies we used to build this very awesome web site.

Blog & Plugin

For the blog and most of the sites regular content (i.e. contact, about, etc.) I built a WordPress theme that is extremely custom and sexy. In ...

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 ...