I’ve recently updated the Yonda Hotaru Theme with a new version, which contains fixes to make the theme compatible with newer Hotaru CMS versions released since I originally made the theme, and a number of style fixes for padding on user pages. I will be updating the Isis Hotaru Theme with similar compatibility fixes soon, [...]
I’m happy to announce that I have just released my first plugin for the Hotaru cms. The plugin is called ‘Facebook Open Graph’ and allows users on a Hotaru site to “like” Hotaru posts and adds a facebook comment box to the bottom of Hotaru post pages.
Today I am releasing the second mabujo designed theme for the Hotaru cms, this one is called Isis. Isis is a fixed width template with a number of jquery features for javascript enabled browsers. The sort options are displayed in a side box that is collapseable and slides in or out of the side of [...]
Well it’s time for another Hotaru post, this time I’m going to be showing you the best way to install and keep the CMS up to date. Like many open source software projects, Hotaru maintains a subversion repository of its code base. In Hotaru’s case, the subversion repo is located at http://my-svn.assembla.com/svn/HotaruCMS/. Now the great [...]
I mentioned in a recent post that I have been starting to test a new social bookmarking platform called Hotaru, and that I was going to be releasing some free themes for the CMS. Today I am releasing the first of those themes and it is called Yonda. Yonda is a clone of reddit.com built [...]
I had hotaru working on my local test server (Ubuntu 9.10) but have been working on some themes and wanted to set them up on my server online for further testing and to create demo installs of each theme on subdomains on my site. I’m running a dedicated server on CentOs 5.x and I had [...]
I’ve been running the sites in the mabujo sports network for around 2 years now and it hasn’t always been plain sailing. Arsenal News was the first site I made, which I started building in around May 2008. At that time I built the site using the Pligg CMS. After a while I became irritated [...]
