Latest Updates

Some discussions on the Facebook group, and comments within the site, led me to an outstanding idea (thanks MissTick!) which was to put a yellow notification bar at the top of your screen when new people have requested to become friends. This was, I believe, an awesome idea and as such has today been implemented…

Genesis Design Update

I’ve fixed the Genesis Design Palette plugin, so you can now (if you’re using the Genesis theme) easily modify a number of different things on your diary, such as text colour, link colours, sizes of headers etc. You will need to activate the plugin from your dashboard if you’re using Genesis as I can’t do…

Service Update

We have found an alternative hosting solution for DearDiary.Net (and .org) and associated hostings. It appears to be faster, definitely better customer service so far, and it’s half the price… With that in mind, over the next couple of days (exactly when is presently unknown!) the sites will be moving (yet again, I know… But…

Spam Reduction + T&Cs

I have received emails today that indicate somewhere approaching 50 spam diaries were set up today. Clearly that’s just ridiculous. As such, despite still being in mid-exam fever, I have taken some time out to implement the Terms and Conditions system. When you next login (if you haven’t done so already) you will be presented…

Terms and Conditions

In a fairly major oversight on my part, I realised that the current incarnation of DearDiary.Net does not require you to agree to any T&C’s before letting you loose on your diary. This will be rectified over the next couple of days (when the code is ready), otherwise I leave myself open to all sorts…

New Theme Available

DearDiary.Net has today purchased a license for the Genesis Framework, which is a WordPress framework that enables rapid development of new themes and theme features. I’ve had a bit of a play with it and it looks extremely promising, to the point where I’m not going to bother trying to build my own theme for…