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Testing new themes

Posted by jayb in WordPress on September 26, 2009

Thought its about time to find a new look for the site.

Thinking I’d move to a two column setup. But it seems like everytime I try to find a new wordpress theme I have to redone the items in my sidebar because they never seem to work correctly between themes. Right now I have Palmixio activated. I like it but has you can see my sidebar is all jacked up. Sometimes I think wordpress makes things to easy. Since I normally don’t have to look at the code to change out themes add a plugin or a widget, I don’t pay much attention to the code, which is the sidebar issue I think.

I’m sure you’ll see lots of different themes and sidebar configurations well I test and tweak themes until I find something I like.

Enjoy your weekend.

later,jb

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Wordpress 2.8 is out

Posted by jayb in WordPress on June 11, 2009

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I’ll make time to upgrade tomorrow night. But here’s a list of the new features from the Codex site. Its a lot of great stuff, I just wonder if any of my plug-ins will break. Only one way to find out.

Highlights

New drag-and-drop widgets admin interface and new widgets API

Syntax highlighting and function lookup built into plugin and theme editors

Browse the theme directory and install themes from the admin

Allow the dashboard widgets to be arranged in up to four columns

Allow configuring the number of items to show on management pages with an option in Screen Options

Support timezones and automatic daylight savings time adjustment

Support IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite Module

Faster loading of admin pages via script compression and concatenation

New Features

User Features

New Theme Installer routines

Add CodePress syntax highlighting to Theme and Plugin editors

Add Documentation(function) lookup to Theme and Plugin editors

Use "Custom Header" for menu text and revise Default theme to reflect change

Separate Comments into a separate postbox, from Discussion postbox, on the Edit Post screen

Make tags accessible without Javascript on the edit screen

Don’t ask for confirmation when marking a comment as spam

Don’t notify post author of own comments

Fix comment paging for static front page

Allow the dashboard widgets to be arranged in up to four columns as set via the Screen Options tab

Make titles into links in Dashboard Right Now module (this was in 2.7.1)

Improved Admin icons (grey-to-transparent shadows)

Update Blue Admin Color Scheme

Press This improvements UI, quoting fixes, plus ability for Contributors to use Press This

Add a Cancel Upload button and a Delete link to Administration > Media > Add New

Add column "Rating" in Administration > Links > Edit

Improve installer to help people entering wrong email addresses

Improved Widget user interface

Allow editing of all plugin files (Ticket 6732)

Improved Plugin search (this was in 2.7.1) on Administration > Plugins > Add New

Per Page option for plugins

Move "Install a plugin in .zip format" to new Upload tab under Administration > Plugins > Add New

Show absolute date instead of relative date for scheduled posts

Fix tags suggest for post quick edit and bulk edit

Permalink editor changes and fix for pages

Autosave post/page when pressing Control/Command+S

Add toggle all button to the Gallery tab in the uploader

Support more than one gallery on the same page

Add per page option to Screen Options for comments, posts, pages, media, categories, and tags

Overhaul of LiveJournal importer (also add define WP_IMPORTING)

Import category descriptions for Administration > Tools > Import > WordPress

Show Tools menu for all users so they can access Turbo

Check for new version when visiting Administration > Tools > Upgrade

In upgrade process, provide better explanation for database upgrade message

Fix most popular link category list

Add description field for Tags in Administration > Posts > Tags

WAI-ARIA landmark roles to added to WordPress Default theme

"Choose a city in the same timezone as you" for Timezone in Administration > Settings > General

Remove My Hacks option from Administration > Settings > Miscellaneous

Hide email addresses from low privilege users on Administration > Comments

Allow case-insensitive logins

Login and Registration pages noindex followed

Give login screen proper iPhone viewport

Enforce unique email addresses in Add/Edit users

Make user_nicenames unique during registration

Add "Send this password to the new user by email" option to Administration > Users > Add New

Don’t set user’s Website url to http:// in Administration > Users > Add New

Add password strength meter to Add User and Edit User

Hide things that need to be available to screen readers via offscreen positioning

Use invisible class for hiding labels and legends

Use a semantic class name for text targeted to screen readers

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Posted by jayb in Daily Links on September 11, 2008

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Adding Extra Sidebar to your Wordpress Theme

Posted by jayb in WordPress on November 24, 2007

Here’s a sweet little exercise on adding a sidebar to a wordpress theme.

You like a Wordpress theme on the Internet but Oh!… What’s this?? The theme has only one sidebar! You need more than one and are on the verge of switching to some other theme with more sidebars. But wait!! Let me teach you how to add an extra sidebar or sidebars to your favorite theme. People who know PHP will find it easy to follow but even novices can easily do it using the code that I have provided in this tutorial. I am assuming that you already know HTML and a bit of CSS.

To begin the tutorial, extract your theme into a folder and open it to see all the files. If your theme has only one sidebar, then most probably you will NOT find a file called functions.php in your theme folder. In that case you will have to create this file yourself. Just open notepad or any other code editor to start a new file. Put this code into that file :-
<?php
if ( function_exists('register_sidebars') )
    register_sidebars(2);
?>
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Wordpress theme layout issue

Posted by jayb in WordPress on October 28, 2007

Maybe its IE6, but I don’t know why my two sidebars are screwed up.

I don’t think its any of the widget’s I’m using, I moved them around and couldn’t get the issue to disappear.

Could someone that knows more about wordpress themes and CSS give me a little help.

Thanks,jb

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Window Clippings 1.2 by Kenny Kerr

Posted by jayb in Uncategorized on January 5, 2007

Most of the time I blog about Windows Speech related things, but today I found a really neat utility written by Kenny Kerr I just have to share. It’s called Window Clippings. It makes capturing screen shots of Windows applications much easier than the built in PrintScreen capabilities, and it rivals commercially available software, IMO. But, Window Clippings is free.

Here’s Kenny’s motivation for writing Window Clippings:

Window Clippings 1.0 was also born out of frustration. I often need to get an image of an application window for an article I may be writing. Doesn’t Alt+PrtScn do that? Well yes and no. Alt+PrtScn creates an image of the window rectangle, but most people run Windows XP which supports themes that typically draw non-rectangular windows, known as window regions. Even if you’re using the Windows Classic theme, which defaults to rectangular windows, many applications today uses regions directly.

Since 1.0, Kenny’s added a lot of cool new features, and integration with the Windows Vista Desktop Window Manager (DWM) so it works well with Aero glass.

There are many nice things about Window Clippings. Here are two of my favorites:

Automatically saves the image in a variety of formats to a pre-defined location on your computer (making the journaling of an experience a lot easier).

An option to "clean" up the glass to prevent the glass from looking dirty by seeing thru the glass to what’s behind it.

Thanks for the handy utility, Kenny.

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New South Park

Posted by jayb in Uncategorized on November 7, 2001

I just got done watching the first south park of the season. It was great!!

I’ve added a few themes to the sight, you can test them by logging in and then clicking on the ‘Your Account’ Link.

From click the theme button and change the look of your Savage Site.

I haven’t had many people post news, links , or pics. So I’m trying to make the site easier to use.

Click on the ‘Post Some News’ link and let me know how I can improve the site.

later,jb