Hi Everyone, This weekend I’ll be at Pi-Con. I’ll be part of a panel on “Smart Web Design” on Friday night. It’s basically a panel about what you should be thinking about when you start a website, as well as what you should consider in terms of how your visitors will interact with your site. It’s going to be pretty informal and may even end up as an open Q/A session for anyone who wants suggestions on issues they’ve encountered along the way to becoming Internet Famous. This will be my last distraction for a long time, I promise. :)

I’m very happy to announce that there is now another webcomic out there using some of the AWSOM plugins: Onezumi.com (finally!). For those of you unaware, Onezumi.com (also known as Stupid and Insane Defenders Against Chaos) is a webcomic that I work on that has finally moved over to using WordPress as it’s backend system. As part of this conversion it uses all three of the AWSOM plugins (and honestly, in many ways the development of the plugins here were always earmarked as part of the future components of the new site).

The launch of the new site has been taking up a ton of my time. I expect that after this week (and this weekend’s con appearance) I will finally be back in the programming loop of things, so expect the long awaited releases of all of the plugins soon.

Hi Everyone, Due to our con appearance schedule (I’ll be at Otakon this weekend) as well as other site development (the new Onezumi.com redesign) it’s been a problem getting the time together to get the latest releases of the AWSOM series of plugins out the door. I have not officially released the Pixgallery 4.5.7 version yet (which has WordPress 2.6 compatibility built in) because I want to test it with a few more set ups first, but it’s generally ready to go and you can download the RC2 version if you need to upgrade. There are some exciting features coming for all of the plugins, so please be patient just a tiny bit more, thanks.

The second release candidate for AWSOM Pixgallery 4.5.7 is now available for download from the Beta release page. This release candidate has support for the new WordPress 2.6 SSL encrypted admin area.

The release Candidate for AWSOM Pixgallery 4.5.7 is now available for download from the AWSOM Beta/Release Candidate page. I believe this version is stable and will work properly with both WordPress 2.6 and previous versions, but given the major changes that have occurred in WordPress 2.6 it’s difficult for me to test every possible variation of WordPress install and server type. In particular I would be very interested to know if this version of Pixgallery works for anyone out there who has a SSL version of WordPress 2.6 installed.

If you run into any issues please let me know by comment or by using the contact form.