Rev. Voodoo

Well, I hunkered down a bit and got it done!  We are closing up the old Voodoo Empire shop which was located at http://shop.thevoodooempire.com.  You can check out our new shop located right here!  Just take a look up at the top navigation for the shop tab.  Give it a click and check things out.  I do have just a few more things to do stylistically…..but we are good to go.  The shop is open, all the old products are uploaded, and we are linked to Paypal.  Browse through all our old stuff, or check back soon.  I’m gonna start getting some more new art onto some new stuff.  As soon as I have time, I’m going to finish up DJ Odawa’s logo and get that on some stuff.  And keep an eye out for Ankhjii’s branded stuff.

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Well, recently after doing some major upgrades on the theme here on my blog, I tried to port the theme over to the shop.  It didn’t work so well, seems I can’t get the path info quite right on some special items using a routed subdomain.  So I looked into some solutions, and dreamed up a pretty good one.  With WordPress’ recent release of 3.0, lots of cool things became available….custom post types, better taxonomy control, etc.  So I decided to sit down and see what I could accomplish.  After a few hours of coding I’m pretty happy with the outcome.  So I’m incorporating the shop right here on my personal site.  That gives me even less sites to take care of, which is very cool.  So now we have my blog, the forums, and the shop all wrapped up here on www.rvoodoo.com.  The shop isn’t open yet….you can play around, but not buy anything yet.  I’ll open the doors real soon here.

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Decided to sit down with the Photoshop machine again.  I just plain don’t get much time to do any fun stuff.  But when I do, it usually involves The Voodoo Empire in some way, logo, the name, etc.  Well I thought it might be fun to start experimenting with Ankhjii’s name.  She does have her own website over at ankhjii.com, and I plan to start stylin’ it up a bit.  It’s clean pink and black now, which looks nice…..but I’d love to add some personality.  So here is my first attempt at coming up with some sort of header art type deal.

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You may not even be able to tell, but the VoodooEmpire3 WordPress theme that is used on this very site is very near to completion after a fun day of coding.  The integration of many new features was seamless!  Everything looks the same, but it doesn’t have to anymore!  We’ve added a full featured admin menu onto the theme.  You can now swap out the background, the header image, the footer image, all the icons in the footer, all the links in the footer (including the copyright info), you can specify default thumbnails to be used in titles and posts if no ‘featured image’ is selected, you can swap out RSS feeds for a feedburner feed, you can even upload your own ttf or otf fonts and then assign them to various areas of the site.  Plus, if you swap out the header for your own, you can specify a new logo to drop on, and give it a link.  The only thing left to do is graphical.  We want to give you choices!  So soon, you will be able to pick from a variety of colour schemes!  And you can do this all from a menu system, how cool is that?  Just keep your eyes out for the official release of the theme, coming soon!

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Here it is, the official announcement…. head to your dashboards and get your upgrade on!  Or if you prefer, do the manual by downloading here.  However you do it, it’s time to upgrade.  WordPress 3.0 is out!  No reason to wait, why have an insecure blog that misses out on so many great features?  This site was upgraded in seconds without a hiccup.  Time to finish upgrading the rest of the sites around here.  Don’t forget to keep your eye out after upgrade, many plugins and themes will be upgrading over the coming days.  And if you like to do your own themes, well you may have some work ahead of ya!  I know I’m about to dive into the new menu system right now!

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It’s always fun to draw up something new with The Voodoo Empire head logo guy!  I had an itch to draw a little something up.  Maybe something for a computer wallpaper, or to use down the road on clothing, or even on a website.  Here’s a nifty little project from this morning using the logo.  It’s kinda cool, at least I think!

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Yep, Ankhjii has had her fitness blog located at a subdomain to rvoodoo.com for a while now. Lately though, she’s been using her site a bit more.  And just like with DJ Odawa’s website, it’s time to move to a top level domain. So now Ankhjii’s Fitness Blog is located at http://ankhjii.com.  Head on over there and peep it!

Well, we’ve had the wordpress twitter tools plugin installed here for a long time.  Ever since it was installed, it’s only ever half worked.  And that was fine really.  All the posts from here were sent to Twitter, which got them to Facebook, and that was all cool.  The plugin also had an option to create a weekly or daily digest of all our tweets and auto post them here.  That feature never worked, and I didn’t really care too much.  That is until recently.  I haven’t been tending to the site too much the past week or so, and I logged on here to discover the plugin had gone crazy, and there were a tonne of posts up here.  I went ahead and cleaned up the numerous duplicate posts, and adjusted the settings…..it’d be pretty cool if the plugin ends up working perfectly now.

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