It will likely be some time until I can get it back into the repo, as it is going to require some pretty large updates to the plugin to make use of the WP_Filesystem class to ensure that I can have the plugin reliably download the shadowbox files and put them into place so that they can be used.

I could always strip shadowbox out of the plugin, and require users to download and upload manually, but the user experience of doing such would be horrid, and likely cause a lot of users to stop using the plugin.

In the mean time the plugin can be downloaded from http://dl.sivel.net/wordpress/plugin/shadowbox-js.3.0.3.9.zip

If you wish to test out the upcoming version that is addressing the issue of including shadowbox.js to get it back into the repository, you can download it from http://dl.sivel.net/wordpress/plugin/shadowbox-js.3.0.3.10a.zip

In the end I went with writing a child theme for Twenty Ten. I have such a difficult time finding a theme I like, and then find myself hacking it for hours on end because the code sucks. Writing my own theme would have taken years, well maybe not, but would have taken far too long.

So here is my new WordPress child theme, titled “Mr. Jones”, inspired by the WordPress 3.0 Admin Bar and the grey color scheme.

Other notable features:

• More filters for overriding numerous URLs, including shadowbox.js and shadowbox.css
• Require at least WordPress 2.8
• Remove support for Ext and Dojo
• Addition of new sub plugin titled “Shadowbox JS – Use Title from Image”, which will grab the title attribute from the child <img> tag if it exists and push it onto the parent <a> tag if a title does not exist.

If you run into any bugs please use the Shadowbox JS support forum for problems or questions with this plugin. Support questions will be ignored if left as comments on my site, through my contact form or by email. The only supported location for support questions is http://wordpress.org/tags/shadowbox-js.

If you are in need of something just be patient, I’ll try to get to everything by sometime in mid March. I have some exciting updates to a few WordPress plugins that I hope to be able to get out in a reasonable amount time, so keep an eye out.

Two plugins will be transferring to Michael Torbert:

• Moderate Selected Posts
• Display Name Author Permalink

Another plugin will be going Andy Stratton:

• Page Restrict

As of now I am no longer supporting these plugins and requests for support should go to their new authors.

Thank you very much Andy and Michael for taking over development and supporting the community.

I am still finalizing details on the Ajaxify FAQ-Tastic plugin with another author. There should be an announcement for this plugin and author soon.

Plugins being sent to the plugin orphanage:

• Moderate Selected Posts – New Owner to be Announced Soon
• Display Name Author Permalink – New Owner to be Announced Soon
• Ajaxify FAQ-Tastic
• Ajax Feed Shortcode – Yet to be released

Everyone please take a look over the above plugins and if you think that you are interested and would like to take over ownership for one or several of these plugins please let me know, either through my contact form or in the comments here.

The specific posts for each of these plugins are:

• http://www.travisballard.com/wordpress/dynamic-favorites-wordpress-plugin/
• http://www.travisballard.com/wordpress/possibly-related-recent-posts-wordpress-plugin/

Please head on over and check out Travis’ site and his announcement of taking over the plugins. With that being said, good luck Travis and these plugins are now 100% yours.