Binamic

After a fairly short turn around the Binamic Blog is now online and open for Business! Over the coming months we hope to bring you insights into what we do for a living and highlight some of our latest projects. No doubt Martin (Binamo #1) will be along soon to welcome you more formally to this blog based party!

Development

We wanted to get the site up and running as quickly as possible which is why I choose to use Wordpress instead of building a custom content management system. Wordpress is a great platform which allows for vast customisation and has a large array of plugins created by the brilliant community.

Making use of plugins is a key part of Wordpress development, chances are that anything you can think of has already been done and implemented as a plugin. Start off by trying the Wordpress Codex plugin page, though usually Google will get you there quicker!

Plugins Used on this Site

• Akismet is provided in the Wordpress package as standard, you will need a wordpress.com API Key but this plugin is a must have if you want to keep your blog spam free.
• Customizable Comment Listings let’s you display the latest comments anywhere on your blog and we are using it on the front page.
• Customizable Post Listings does the same as Customizable Comment Listings but with posts! Again used on the front page.
• Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Created by John Gruber and ported to PHP by Michel Fortin. Markdown makes marking up posts a complete dream!
• Widon’t is a tiny but essential plugin for typographic perfection. It eliminates Widows in a post title and can be configured to perform it’s magic on any html element inside a post.

At the time of writing the Coffee 2 Code site which hosts Customizable Comment Listings and Customizable Post Listings is acting a little “funky” but I managed to get to the PHP source for both the files, here and here respectively. 

Coming Soon

There are still a lot of features I would like to roll out on this blog as it is pretty bare bones at the moment. Features will include a Search, Archive and any other cool things I can think of! Keep your eyes peeled!

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