BIS: released code

Code created by us as part of our projects is Crown Copyright. For the following projects, in the interest of promoting reuse and best value from publicly-funded work, we are releasing the code under the GNU Affero licence:

All code is provided as is with no warranties or guarantees about its quality or performance.


Digital Britain: Clean Home Wordpress Theme (v1.3)

A theme customised by BIS for Digital Britain, this WordPress theme is one with a minimal, clean looking design and has full CSS widgetization. Special thanks to the original author of Clean Home, Bryan Helmig of Mid Mo Web Design.

View View the Digital Britain site which uses this theme (as at December 2009)

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Commentariat Wordpress Theme (v1.3)

A comments-oriented theme, designed to make it reasonably easy to publish short, 'commentable' documents in a convenient, accessible, degradable way.

Also recommend using the Drop Down Post List plugin and Category Order plugin

  • Version 1.3, 9-Mar-09: improves accessibility, adds Twitter bookmark, includes modified Drop Down Post List plugin designed to meet AA accessibility
  • Version 1.2.1, 15-Feb-09: minor enhancement: shows 'Comments are closed' when comments are disabled on a post.
  • Version 1.2, 12-Feb-09: now WordPress 2.6 compatible, better installation instructions, includes module to show sidebar of 'Recent commenters' and simpler footer.
  • Version 1.1, 2-Feb-09: adds social bookmarking buttons, more robust and elegant display including gravatars, improved IE6 and IE7 compatibility.

View an online demo

Also used in: BERR/DECC Low Carbon Strategy consultation

Also used in: DFID Ending World Poverty consultation

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Bookmarklist

A tool for displaying tagged Delicious.com bookmarks with thumbnail previews, as used at Digitalgovuk. Uses JSON-PHP library.

Version 1.3, 20-Aug-09: fix to prevent XSS attacks; nicer error handling.

Version 1.2, 23-Apr-09: switch to Delicious JSON objects rather than RSS/SimplePie, implements local caching.

Version 1.1, 15-Feb-09: bug fixes, cosmetic tweaks, and new 'link popularity' feature thanks to code from Exmosis.

View the online demo

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