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WordPress 3.0

Mina — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 13:52:42 +0000

Yesterday WordPress released the beta of the new 3.0 version so of course I had to download it to see. I’m not going to go into the new features and all in depth, mainly since it’s still in beta and also because I’m most concerned about how my themes will work with it.

I quickly ran all my themes through it to see if there would be any problems using them on the new version and so far haven’t seen any issues. Of course they may be some glitches with some of the new features that will be included in the new 3.0 but the upshot is that if you are using any of my themes you should be okay if you upgrade (which I strongly suggest you wait until the official version of 3.0 is released). So as it stands I won’t be doing much upgrading of the themes unless something major presents itself.

If you are using a lot of plugins you may wind up with issues there so that’s something to look into before you upgrade.

Daily Minefield Theme

Mina — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:47:36 +0000

Multi-column fixed-width theme in brown, black and a touch of green includes 4 widgetized footer sections. Featuring an Author Info page and gravatars along with Custom Archives, Sitemap and Full-Width No Sidebars page templates. There is an options page for setting the text in the Info Text Box. Space for ads or miscellaneous images included as well as rotating logo images. Tested in Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE6 and IE7. Compatible up to WordPress 2.8 and is XHTML 1.0 Transitional and CSS 2.1 valid out of the box.

LOGO IMAGES:
The theme comes with the rotating logo images function enabled. To use this feature simply upload your desired images to the images/logo directory and the code will do the rest. To diable this function and just use one static logo image go into Admin >> Appearances >> Editor >> style.css, comment out the line for ROTATING LOGO IMAGE and uncomment the line for STATIC LOGO IMAGE as shown below:

/*****ROTATING LOGO IMAGE*****/
/* .logo { background: url(images/logo/rotate.php) no-repeat; margin: 10px; padding: 0; width: 465px; height: 225px; border: 5px groove #666b18; } */

/*****STATIC LOGO IMAGE*****/
.logo { background: url(images/logo.jpg) no-repeat; margin: 10px; padding: 0; width: 465px; height: 225px; border: 5px groove #666b18; }

The location of the STATIC LOGO image is the wp-contents/themes/Daily_Minefield/images folder so you can add your own.

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WordPress 2.8 and the themes

Mina — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:33:58 +0000

So WordPress 2.8 has been released and from playing around with the development versions it really seems pretty awesome. I did notice that they deprecated the author functions which is a bit of a problem as I’ve used those function in my themes (the Author Info page, Bio blocks, etc). So that means I need to do some upgrading for my themes. I’m not sure of the extent of what needs to be done yet but will get going on those upgrades asap.

As far as I can tell, besides that author thing, the themes do work in 2.8 so keep that in mind if you upgrade to 2.8. I’ll keep everyone updated on my progress with the upgrades so keep checking back here.

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Anonymous Elegance Theme

Mina — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:15:48 +0000

I’ve gone back to basics with this one. I wanted something simple and elegant to serve as a basic blog template and I think I’ve accomplished that with this theme. I hope you like it as much as I do.

It’s a very clean 2 Column theme with one sidebar on the left side, widget-ready fixed width theme sporting a basic elegance featuring pretty mauve and pinkish colors. It has an author info page, gravatars and author box along with Custom Archives, Sitemap and full width No Sidebars page templates. Tested in Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE6 and IE7. Compatible up to WordPress 2.7. And yes, it’s valid XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2.1 right out of the box.

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Finally…Updated Themes!!!

Mina — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:39:12 +0000

Three weeks later but at least all the updated versions of the themes are now available for download at the Theme Directory. Hallelujah!!

Updating for WordPress 2.7

Mina — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:43:28 +0000

Just a heads up to everyone, I’ve updated all my themes to be compatible with the upcoming WordPress 2.7 as well as remaining compatible with lower versions. I’ve submitted them to the WordPress Theme Directory and am currently waiting for them to be approved.

I will edit this post as the updated themes become available for download.