filed in blog clutter, countzeero, design clutter, whaddeva on Sep.16, 2008
As we prepare ourselves for the next step of the clutterlovers evolution and with wordpress 2.7 only a couple of months away I thought it would be a good idea to collect some of the resources out there and bring them together in a post.
First off, Smashing Magazine has a post titled “Wordpress Developers Toolbox” [...] Read more »
filed in blog clutter on Aug.02, 2008
The previous post dealt with the (mostly) technical aspects of themes, here we will be looking objectively at the general look and feel before going on to the preparation for customization.
First lets check the criteria:
3 or 4 columns
Fixed width <1024px
Clean Typography
Useable structure
The Candidates:
Default “Kubrick” not really a candidate but our starting point…
Stitched has all [...] Read more »
filed in blog clutter on Aug.02, 2008
In the simplest sense a Theme is also a plug-in for your Blog. Themes belong in the “wp-contents/themes/theme_name” Folder.
Be careful about themes “wrapped” in two folders after you unzip them, they won´t work
A theme without css is broken – throw it out!
A theme that needs to change file folder permissions is a security flaw – [...] Read more »
filed in blog clutter on Aug.01, 2008
thought it would be fun and maybe even helpful to document the process of setting up a new nice clean safe self-hosted blog: if you are on a blog hosting service like wordpress.com or blogspot you will not be able to do some of the things listed here…
what do we have:
access to your “blogroot” (ftp,myphp,sql. [...] Read more »
