My love of chess and Wordpress has collided over the last couple weeks and the result has been a breakthrough in geeky output. Apologies in advance! Anyway, I was surprised that there are only a few chess plugins for Wordpress and one thing led to another and you know how it goes…
The first product I [...]

I have been playing chess online a bit more lately and have been looking for ways to incorporate chess into my blog a bit more. I don’t know what form that will take, but one of the things I have been experimenting with is a Wordpress plugin called “Chess by Blog.” This Wordpress Plugin allows you to paste a chess game in PGN format into your web posts. For example, the game below shows a game I played last week.

I spent last night trying to figure out how my websites got hacked. Luckily no permanent damage was done, but it did take some time to figure out what was going on. I wanted to post my experience in case someone else comes across this same problem. Here is what happened…
By pure coincidence I happened [...]

Wordpress Plugins by Adrian Hanft

Easter Egg Plugin

I am proud to introduce my latest Wordpress Plugin. This one is called “Konami Easter Egg” and it makes it easy for anyone to create custom easter eggs on any Wordpress powered website. If you aren’t quite sure what an easter egg is, let me backup and give you [...]

My last post asked if it is possible to increase creativity by taking notice of our dreams. I have wanted to document my dreams for a while, so I finally took action and built a website that makes it easy to record your dreams. The site is called Dream Feedr and it is open to [...]

I have redesigned this site several times over the last four years and I always thought it was a bit of a shame that the designs had to disappear from the internet after the new design is applied. So it has been in the back of my mind for a while to convert my old [...]

Wordpress Plugins by Adrian Hanft

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I am proud to announce my second Wordpress plugin. (Yes, I know this is only a couple days after releasing my  first plugin, but I told you I had a surge of inspiration lately, didn’t I?) This one is called “iPhone Control Panel” and it gives Wordpress users an admin panel [...]

Wordpress Plugins by Adrian Hanft
I am proud to announce the release of my first Wordpress plugin. The plugin is called Font Burner Control Panel and it allows you to easily add any of the 1000+ fonts from Font Burner to your site. The thing that is exciting to me is that this plugin lets you [...]

The longer you have a blog the harder it gets to upgrade your blog software. With hundreds of entries and thousands of comments you have a lot to lose if something goes wrong. That is why I have been hesitant to upgrade to the new version of Movable Type (4.0). I waited until I had [...]

As I continue to develop Holy Gears, I am going to be using Adrian3 as the guinea pig. As I deveop new themes for Holy Gears I will be reskinning Adrian3 as a test. As a result, you may not recognize this site next time you visit!
One of the things that I think can set [...]