I released a really simple little plugin. All it does is allow you to mark content that should only display until a certain date/time, then hides it after that date/time. So it doesn’t do much, but what it does is pretty useful.

The download an more information for the Expiring Content Shortcode plugin is with with my other plugins on the Crowd Favorite website.

Congratulations to our friends at UpThemes for shipping GarageBand, a great Band theme that includes Carrington Build (developer version).

I have it on good authority that we may see more Carrington Build enabled themes from UpThemes in the future, with even tighter integrations.

A bunch of folks in the WordPress support forums appear to be having trouble with Twitter Tools with WordPress 2.9. It works as expected in my testing, the WordPress HelpCenter hasn’t been able to reproduce this either, and the works/broken voting on the plugin page is fairly evenly split.

I’d love to gather some explicit bug reports (this thing breaks here, this code on line X appears to fail, works with all other plugins turned off but not with plugin Y enabled as well, etc.) and/oor access (both WP admin and file editing) to an environment where this is breaking consistently with WP 2.9 and previously worked with WP 2.8.x.

If you use Twitter Tools, could you take a moment to vote if it works for you with WordPress 2.9?¹

Thanks in advance.

UPDATE: Interesting – when I posted this the vote was 12 working vs. 17 broken. The current vote is now 31 working to 20 broken. So far since I posted this another 22 votes have been cast and 19 of them indicate it is working. This seems to be far from a widespread issue, which probably helps explain why no one I know can reproduce it.

1. I realize that this type of call to action will by nature result in more unhapy voters (more “broken” votes) than otherwise – this is the nature of such things. [back]

WordPress 2.9 has been released – time to upgrade! There are some pretty nice new features in this release. I’m glad to be able to retire a few plugins now that the post thumbnail feature is built in and we’re going to wear out the comment meta feature in our custom implementations.

I’ve got a lot of sites to upgrade – I’ll have a little more on the process I use for this in a follow-up post.

If you need help with your upgrade, our team at WordPress HelpCenter is available and happy to help. Give us a call: (303) 395-1346 or email help@wphelpcenter.com.

I’ve published another Q&A on the Carrington Framework on the Carrington web site. This one covers some additional questions I saw popping up in the forums and comments.

It’s great to see folks being able to get into Carrington a little more of late, I guess the additional documentation has been helpful.

Also, remember to submit your Carrington powered sites to the Showcase once they go live, I’m looking forward to seeing what people have built.

The Carrington CMS theme framework for WordPress has been updated to version 2.5. I’ve also released updated versions of all of our Carrington themes with the latest core, new documentation, and other misc. enhancements and bug fixes:

• Carrington Blog 2.2
• Carrington Text 1.3
• Carrington Mobile 1.1
• Carrington JAM 1.3

WordPress developers, be sure to check out the documentation we’ve added about the Carrington framework. I’m also gathering questions for a follow-up Q&A to be posted this week – send in your topics.