Written by Darryl April 13th, 2008
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I’ve upgraded numerous plugins recently and not had an issue. However, this morning I was attempting to upgrade cforms and a few of Lester Chan’s plugins and they failed.
Unfortunately I also discovered that when the automatic plugin upgrade fails, it removes the plugin completely from the list of available plugins….and also deletes the directory. Now this obviously wouldn’t have been an issue if the plugin upgrade hadn’t failed, but since it did, it means that now I’ve got to manually download the plugin, and then ftp it to my server.
If this is going to be a major issue with automatic plugin upgrades, then I may just stop using the automatic upgrade feature altogether. Could it be that the plugins themselves are not setup properly for automatic upgrade?
Written by Darryl April 7th, 2008
Someone requested a dark version of the Blog It 750 theme, so since I had a few minutes this afternoon, I went ahead and did it.
Here’s a screenshot:
Here’s the download link: Blog It 750 Dark
Everything is the same as the Blog It 750 theme, except the color. Enjoy!
Written by Darryl April 6th, 2008
I’ve been testing this theme for some time and I feel that it is now ready for release. It’s a two column minimalistic theme with the sidebar on the right. The sidebar is the perfect width to place two 125×125 ads side-by-side.
The class for aligning pictures is “left” or “right” depending on what you want. If you’re looking to place it in the center like above, then wrap the image tag in a
<div align="center"> </div>
or add a center class to style.css. It’s up to you how you want to handle that.
As for typography, here’s a sample:
This is the H1 tag
This is the H2 tag
This is the H3 tag
This is the H4 tag
This is the H5 tag
And Finally H6 tag
The margins and padding are set to 0 (zero) for each of these, so if you use them make sure that you also include a line break (< br />) after you use them to allow for proper spacing.
Here’s the download link: Blog It 750
Of course, if you like black instead of white, we have that too:
Here’s the download link: Blog It 750 Black
Or perhaps you like black and red instead:
Here’s the download link: Blog It 750 Black and Red
These are, of course, released under the GPL. I would appreciate it if you kept the link in the footer though. Have fun with them!
Written by Darryl April 4th, 2008
I’m working on a theme and I don’t have access to my local server right now. The regular theme will be back up in a little while…
Written by Darryl March 29th, 2008
If you haven’t found out by now, WordPress 2.5 has been released. It includes a bunch of new stuff in the admin area including, automatic upgrades for plugins, media gallery, upload music, pics, and video, and tons of other changes. You can read more about the features in WordPress 2.5 here.
I’ve been testing the plugin upgrade functionality, and I have to say that it works just fine. I’ve upgraded 5 sites to WordPress 2.5 in the last hour and upgraded every plugin that needed it. No problems here.
I’ll be going through my themes to make sure that all everything works ok, but so far on my test server, there doesn’t seem to be any issues.
If you haven’t upgraded yet, then head on over to WordPress.org and do so. You won’t regret it.
Written by Darryl March 28th, 2008
I’ve updated both of these themes due to an issue where WordPress doesn’t like the & sign in the name. Thanks goes to mgn of Techwizards for pointing this out. You can download the latest versions from the Free WordPress Themes page.
Written by Darryl March 28th, 2008
I’m currently testing another new theme on this site that I made for another site that I run. Well, actually there are some differences…
The theme for the other site is actually wider than this one and has one more sidebar. I just thought that I would make a version that would fit on a 800×600 screen for kicks.
I don’t have a name for this one since I haven’t decided on whether or not I’m going to release it. Does anyone want to suggest one?
