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Themes

Themes and Plugins

April 30, 2007

I spent the evening installing and activating the plug-ins I plan to use on the new site. Mostly the same one’s I’m currently using, until better come along, however, since I won’t be using one of the advanced templates which automatically use several plug-ins, like Ultimate Tag Warrior (UTW), I had to develop the pages [...]

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How to Create a WordPress Theme – Part 7, Margins & Font Settings

April 28, 2007

I discovered the problem with IE was that it was not handling the CSS float on the left column correctly. By supplying explicit top margin settings, it is now usable. Here’s what the design looks like in IE:

As you can see, the corners are square since it doesn’t understand CSS3 border-radius. I may go back [...]

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Creating a WordPress Theme – Part 6, CSS3 Rounded Borders

April 26, 2007

CSS3 Rounded Borders was a success! Well, for Firefox users anyway! Luckily, I checked my stats and find that 65% of my visitors are Firefox users… mostly v2.0, but a few v1.5 users are still out there. Time to upgrade Firefox folks!
The rounded corners technique using CSS3 method is very easy compared to what I [...]

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K2 Theme Updated to SVN

March 29, 2007

I figured out that the last released version of the K2 theme I’m using, doesn’t support WordPress 2.1.2 very well. Little things here and there weren’t quite right. I downloaded r323 from the K2 subversion repository, and it fixes the obvious problems. I’m also getting reacquainted with configuring K2’s options. However, at the moment, I [...]

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