filed in blog clutter, countzeero on Aug.19, 2008
If like me you test run a lot of different themes then this plug-in could prove invaluable… TAC (Theme Authenticity Checker) Scan all of your theme files for potentially malicious or unwanted code. Be aware of advertisements or dangerous JavaScript inserted into legitimate themes by third party theme download sites. you can download the plugin [...] Read more »
filed in whaddeva on Aug.03, 2008
After too many hours editing a theme that just didn´t want to become compatible with wordpress 2.6 we had to resort to a complete re-install of a clean wp and database… back to the drawing board… Almost ready… just got to import the xml from clutterloversv1 and the NGG Gallerys… smilies installed :nod: and lastly [...] Read more »
filed in whaddeva on Aug.02, 2008
In this episode we will begin the initial changes to the blogs css styling: Colors: The blogs colors are defined within various tags, you will need to go through the tags one by one and change the values to your desired colors. (color tags are always preceded by “#” and look like this #ff9900 or [...] Read more »
filed in blog clutter on Aug.02, 2008
Authors Note: Almost as if we had had a premonition about this theme… It proved absolutely incompatible to wordpress 2.6 – adding dynamic sidebars would not have been the problem… the problem was the php querys used in the themes templates to <wp_ “API”> are not compatible with the “runtime” of wordpress2.6. more info and [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] Read more »