I am currently on a 3222km road trip in my home country of South Africa travelling from Cape Town up to Durban and back again, so this is just a quick note to say thanks to all for the really positive responses I have recieved so far about AnyFont.
If you one of those who have emailed me, twittered me or commented on this blog requesting support, dont worry! I am not ignoring you and I haven’t forgotten about you! Driving a car and writing quality code at the same time has turned out to be quite a difficult task, [superemotions file="icon_wink.gif" title="Wink"] so I will be investigating and responding to all your queries just as soon as I reach my destination.
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Before I begin; I would just like to point out that I am not a graphic designer in the professional sense, I am just a developer with a keen interest in building very slick and usable interfaces. My actual graphic design knowledge is purely the result of many many hours of trial and error in both Photoshop and Gimp. So if you decide to comment, which I hope you do(I need direction!), please take this into consideration and go easy on me. 
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I am pleased to announce the latest release of AnyFont, my WordPress plugin which I have been working on quite a bit recently. This release has some really awesome new features added to it, namely the inclusion of support for PHP4 and the GD image module. But if you’re a fan of the ImageMagick support which was default in previous versions of AnyFont, don’t worry, thats still there! The plugin will now automatically detect which version of PHP you using and if you have the GD or ImageMagick plugin installed, then load the required libraries which best suit your servers configuration. (with PHP5 and ImageMagick been the preferred modules of course.)
If the last paragraph didnt really mean all that much to you, dont stress, what it all boils down to is that the plugin is much more likely to work for if it didnt work previously as this new version should now work with almost all of the wordpress hosts out there.
The other new feature which I think is really worth a mention is the new options which are available on the settings page which allow you to automatically replace your post titles, page titles or widget titles with one of the custom fonts you have uploaded. No editing of code is required! Just a simple click and everything is taken care of for you!
If you like the plugin please click here to rate it on the WordPress site, or if you have any problems with the plugin or need assistance of any kind, please feel free to twitter me. And on that note, I think its about time I update this site with some relevant contact info and maybe a project page for AnyFont… and then possibly even blog about something other than AnyFont! 
Posted in Design, Projects, WordPress | Tagged AnyFont, fonts, GD, image generation, ImageMagick, new release, php, php4, plugin, project, truetype, update, updated plugin, WordPress, wordpress plugin |
This release, which you can download here, is mainly a bug fix release, fixing a number of issues, the most important one been the issue where some users got a “Server 500″ error when deactivating the plugin. The issue lay in the rewriting of the .htaccess file so if you happen to be hit by this unfortunate bug, the easiest way to fix is to just delete your .htaccess file. And most importantly, if you have permalinks enabled, you will need to disable them and then re-enable them in your WordPress settings after deleting the .htaccess file, else none of your permalinks will work.
The other significant bugfix, which involves your styles and fonts disappearing when updating, was due to my assumption that WordPress overwrote the plugin on update and didn’t just delete everything then unpack the update. So now in version 0.5.2, your fonts, styles and the cache are stored in wp-content, instead of the actual plugin folder as before.
I am also already working on version 0.6 which is going introduce a whole host of new options. Two of the major features I am working on is PHP4 and/or GD support and then an option to have clientside font rendering instead if your server does not support GD or ImageMagick.
As always, all feedback is more than welcome!
Posted in Ajax, Projects, WordPress | Tagged AnyFont, fonts, image generation, javascript, new release, php, plugin, project, truetype, updated plugin, WordPress, wordpress plugin |
The first public release of my wordpress plugin called AnyFont, finally got uploaded to the wordpress plugin repository today.
The plugin itself allows you to use any truetype font you wish for your post titles or menu items by generating images automatically, and if my explanation doesnt make the slightest bit of sense to you, have a looksee just a couple cm up this page at this posts title, and at my menu links. Looks funky ne? 
This plugin has been a long time in the making and now that its finally out there, I am going to *try* to commit to working on it a lot more frequently than before. I have a lot of plans for this plugin to make it easier to use as well as add a couple features which will allow you to make some seriously sexy looking font styles.
If you like this plugin please rate it on the wordpress plugins site, and if you got any suggestions or stumble across a bug, please feel free to twitter me or drop me an email or something.
Posted in Projects, WordPress | Tagged AnyFont, fonts, image generation, javascript, new release, php, plugin, project, truetype, WordPress, wordpress plugin |
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