Category Archive
The following is a list of all entries from the themes category. Noteworthy entries are filed topmost.
More themes on *.zungu.net
I have just installed lots of new themes on zungu.net. Thanks to WordPress.com most of the themes now have the option to upload your own header-image. Give it a try!
Sidebar Widgets Plugin released
The folks from wordpress.com have released thier Sidebar-Widgets to the public (wow, thank you!). The widgets come as a plugin and enable wordpress-users to configure their sidebar to their wishes, without touching the code. It will be easy to include or re-arrange recent comments, archives, blogroll, flickr …Â get a theme
There are possibly thousands of different themes out there. I have installed several. To alter the default look of your weblog just hit “Presentation” and choose a availible theme. Some offer also some options. In case you want something different go ahead and find yourself one, then send me a note, I’ll install it for you.
my little Wp-tweaks
Curious as I am, I couldn’t wait to update my blog to WordPress 2.0. So end of december 2005 I put up 2.0 and started tweaking for my purpose. For my blog on mzungus I chose regulus 2 theme, originally designed by Binary Moon. I especailly liked the clear layout and the backend funktions of the theme. Since WP 2.0 it is possible to add a configuration page (functions.php) to enable easy individual themesettings, without hacking into the code or editing the stylesheet. Regulus 2 allows the user to choose whether to
- display full posts or excerpts on the homepage,
- show information about the author,
- show the calendar,
- display the meta section,
- display admin options when logged in,
- show the recent post,
- show complete archive
- display multiple categories in the blog roll.
The user can further choose from of a range of header-images and color-schemes.
I found this to be nice enhancements and extended them a little by adding the option to display recent posts beneath the content of the homepage and recent comments. I added my own header image of course and extended the color-schemes.
Recent Comments & Posts:
I decided to solely use smart-unread-comments plugin, since I think it is the easiest way to keep my readers up-to-date. It relies on cookies. Display of recent posts is also included in Regulus Theme, but it is not possible to display recents posts, excluding the first posts that are already displayed on the homepage. Customizable Post Listings Plugin allows to customize that.
Tagging:
I testet the two probably most used tagging plugins, taggerati and ultimate tag warrior UTW. It takes some time to get into, but after some reading I got the stuff going. I settled with UTW, since I peronally felt better with it. The Autor of Taggerati also still has some problems with getting things done for WP2.0.