Habari 0.4 is out, now with (among a lot of other cool stuff) media silos that allow you to easily interact with things like Flickr

Fan-freakin-tastic.

Here's my first plugin for Habari.
Magic Tags allows you to use tags to help with formatting and organization. Any tag begining with "@" is not displayed in $post->tags_out. This allows you, for example to tag "asides" with "@aside" and set that up to display in a different format, without having an "asides" tag for the site.

The plugin also includes a function for displaying all of the tags used on the site, similarly filtered.

UPDATE:

I've updated the site tags list to display the number of posts for each tag, and sort by that number. It also hides any tags that have a post count of zero. Download is in the same place.

Download it here

Well. I’ve converted my current theme (with a few minor adjustments) for habari and installed it. It seems to be working well at the moment, although the importer did not get the pages (most of which would not work anyway). Also the search function is broken. I’ll see what I can do about those in the next few days. I’m pretty happy with it so far. Still needs some tweaking, but I’m definiately getting there. Check it out.

EDIT: Now, it's up and running as the main site. Please let me know if you find any major problems.

Updated for Habari 0.3!

I've put together a theme for Habari. It's based on the theme I built for Aiden's Page (originally for Wordpress). It's very simple, but I think it covers all the basic bases (say that three times). The screenshot links to the .zip file.

Yeah, I know I redesign almost as often as I post, but I kind of like this one. It's the first light theme I've done in a long time. I think it's simple and clean. The picture in the corner is a painting my grandmother did. It's awsome. I've got some things I'm going to try to do in the new year, we'll see how it goes.

Let me know what you think.

Does every blog in the world have a post with this title?
I've spent a lot of time working with WordPress over the last year or so, and I've enjoyed much of it and learned much from it. I've make some friendships and even some money (not much mind you, but still...). Over the last few weeks, however, I've come to the conclusion that I'm done working with WordPress. I will still build themes and recommend it to people, and I'll keep using it because I do like the application. However, I don't think I'll be spending time in #wordpress for a while, and won't be keeping up even the small amount of participation in the codex and trac. (I realize, of course, to the WordPress community as a whole my dissappearance will not be noticed, and the small amount of help I have been will be covered by the many good people who are involved.) I simply no longer feel like a part of that community. As much of that is because I have had much less time and motivation to maintain my connection to the community as anything. Right now there is too much going on in my life to work on rebuilding that connection. I'm moving in the next three months, and whether that move will be across the city or across the country is undecided at this point.

As far as the people who read this are concerned, this will probably not affect you in the least. I'll keep up my usual Dickensian publishing schedule (Dickens schedule now, not when he was alive) and occasionally tell you more about my life than you want to know. But there it is.