WicketPixie

WicketPixie is a free “premium” Social Media WordPress theme. This was designed to make it easer for you to add more power to your blog with easy configuration options and often-requested features.

Feel free to download and install your own copy (please read the included directions). Or, if you’re a developer or designer, feel free to join the theme project to fix bugs you find and make WicketPixie even better!

WICKETPIXIE CHANGELOG

v1.2 – TBA, 2009 (RC2 – September 3, 2009)

• FEATURE: AdSense for Search functionality.
• CHANGE: Add AdSense ads via code instead of ad IDs.
• PERFORMANCE: New AdminPage class written from scratch in hopes of better admin pages overall.
• PERFORMANCE: Switched back to using WordPress’ database functions for storing settings.
• PERFORMANCE: Using the SimplePie library included with WordPress.
• PERFORMANCE: Updated widgets to use WordPress 2.8’s new Widget API.
• PERFORMANCE: Sped up page loads by moving JavaScript files down to the footer and adding a PHP flush() call in the header to get content out sooner.
• ADDED: TweetMeme widget on posts is now toggleable.
• ADDED: The number of Flickr photos displayed in the Flickr badge is now selectable in WicketPixie Admin.
• PLUGIN: Updated StatPress Reloaded to 1.5.21.
• REMOVED: TweetMeme widget on the home page.
• REMOVED: Some of the defaults Chris wanted in WicketPixie.

v1.1.2 – May 21, 2009

• ADDED: AJAX loader to keep users from looking at a half-loaded page.
• FIXED: Some bugs in the Adsense code.
• FIXED: Broken admin pages made it impossible to save any settings.

v1.1.1 – April 19, 2009

• FIXED: Temporary beautification of the theme during page loads.

v1.1 – April 18, 2009

• FEATURE: Global Announcements allow you to set a message that is displayed
  globally across your site.
• FEATURE: The Home Editor lets you modify important parts of your homepage
  without ever touching the template itself.
• FEATURE: Those nifty social buttons? Yeah, we threw those in too. ;-)
• FEATURE: The Custom Code feature allows you to add custom code to
  header.php, footer.php, and after post content without modifying the template
  yourself.
• FEATURE: Adsense Integration allows you insert Adsense ads in the
  recommended areas without touching the templates.
• PLUGIN: Numerous plugins have been added:
  All-in-one SEO pack, AskApache 404, Auto-hyperlink URLs, Chitika Premium,
  FAlbum, Kontera, Obfuscate Email, PageNavi, and StatPress Reloaded
• PLUGIN: Updated Related Posts plugin to version 1.0.
• ADDED: WicketPixie has it’s own top-level menu in WordPress’ admin area.
  There is also a top-level menu for the plugins bundled with WicketPixie.
• ADDED: On the homepage and on single posts, a new ReTweet widget is shown
  along with the number of Tweets linking to that post and a retweet button.
• PERFORMANCE: We are using Google to serve jQuery and favicons, so page load
  times will have decreased.
• PERFORMANCE: Status update caching caches the latest feed item from the
  designated source for status updates. If the cache is older than 45 seconds,
  a new cache is built.
• UPDATED: Twitter post will show “from WicketPixie” now after you publish
  a blog post and have Twitter set to be notified by WicketPixie.
• UPDATED: @{username here} in status updates will now link to that user’s
  Twitter profile, if Twitter is set to provide the updates of course.
• UPDATED: Made the search highlight plugin optional.
• FIXED: Checkboxes in WicketPixie Options will remember their settings.
• FIXED: Nofollow has been added to header and navigational links for better
  SEO.
• FIXED: Appended UNIX timestamp to the end of CSS files to prevent caching.
• FIXED: Many other bugs :P

v1.0.4 – January 19, 2009 by Eddie Ringle

• FEATURE: Plain-text URLs in the Status Updates box are now hyperlinked,
  now only one click is required for visitors.
• FEATURE: WicketPixie Services Notification System. Basically, when a
  user publishes a blog post, Ping.fm or Twitter, depending on what the
  user setup, is notified and a link to that blog post is sent out.
• FIXED: Fixed a few CSS issues

v1.0.3 – January 7, 2009 by Eddie Ringle

• FEATURE: Now only the wicketpixie folder is required, and everything
  has been either automated or moved into the theme folder,
  making things much easier on the user.
• ADDED: Added a footer notice in the admin area including the current
  version of WicketPixie.
• PERFORMANCE: More UI improvements, now the all the admin pages WicketPixie
  adds load much faster and do not halt in the middle of loading.
• UPDATED: Updated SimplePie version.

v1.0.2 – January 4, 2009 by Eddie Ringle

• FEATURE: UI improvements to certain WicketPixie forms. For example,
  if a source has no feed associated, it will show “N/A” on the
  Sources Manager page. Also, you can’t flush non-feed streams,
  so the buttons to flush them have been removed.
• UPDATED: Updated Source Manager and Faves Manager for Wordpress 2.7+
  as well as leaving it backwards compatible with Wordpress 2.5+
• FIXED: Fixed the activity stream, it now shows your activity stream!

v1.0.1 – June 8, 2008

• UPDATED: Updated documentation
• FIXED: Eliminated activity.php error

v1.0 – June 7, 2008

• Initial Release