Thou shall make your Wordpress Theme a Wordpress 2.5 Compliant
June 5, 2008
If you’re blog is already running with Wordpress 2.5, I bet you must have created tons of image galleries within your posts already. Otherwise, it could be because you have disliked how the gallery post, the inside gallery pages and all its elements looked like. If that’s the case, I’m 99% sure that your Wordpress Theme is not Wordpress 2.5 compliant.
A Wordpress 2.5 Compliant theme must have an image.php template file. Having just a single.php template is not enough for you to be able to optimize the looks and functionality of your Wordpress 2.5 Image Gallery. Without this new file, your image gallery would only look as dull as this as compared to the screen shot below. And how to make an image.php template file is what we’re going to expound in this entry. But fret not, for creating this image.php template file is easy, even a faint-hearted soul would not have much trouble if the necessary procedures are followed.
First, you’ll have to make a duplicate copy of your single.php template file and name it as image.php.
Sample Wordpress 2.5 Image Gallery post [Read more]
Our Allies affirmed, Contest prices updated! Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
April 22, 2008
Our Allies has affirmed their magnanimous support and are benevolent enough to upgrade our prices with the following:
- Revolution Pro Media (Single Use Package) from the Godfather of all Magazine Style Wordpress Themes, Brian Gardner (1 winner)
- Peel Away Scripts from the creators of the non-intrusive advertising scripts, Lords Harris and Richard. (3 winners)
In case you don’t know what these things are, let us introduce them fairly for you. Blog Almighty will not let you get left behind with your abominable ignorance. So lo and behold!
Honor your Wordpress Theme Creator, WP Theme Series Part 1
April 16, 2008
This is the first part of my will be series featuring different Wordpress Themes and on this entry, I’ll be featuring the Wordpress Themes that I’ve used since I began blogging with Wordpress.
I could not remember the time frames when I did use the following themes so I’ll just lay the list out and add a few Pros and Cons. And of course, these are my personal opinions. Though I am Blog Almighty - Ruler of the Cyber World, I am giving you my word but you have free will for you to decide.
- Travelogue by Josh Lyman
- PhotoBloggo by ChiQ Montes
- Vistered Little by Nik Iliadis
- SoSuechtig (Black Edition) by Patrick Queisler
- Mimbo by Darren Hoyt
Wordpress 2.5 upgrade is not for the faint of heart
April 15, 2008
I am Blog Almighty and I have several blogs of which one of them has been running on 2.5 for some time now and there hasn’t been any major troubles going on though I’m still observing under the process of observing if there would be some back-end effects for the front end seems to have no problems at all. Rumor has it that this upgrade would kill some plugins though none of what I have been using was affected.Anyway, if you’re planning to upgrade your Wordpress versions, I suggest you do it first on a test blog. Why, because no one can make sure what would happen after you do and things get really messy if you’re not prepared. For most forum threads that I’ve been reading, I see a lot of people whining about a few bugs, their plugins not working and the inside pages of their gallery is not displaying correctly.
Well, I have already blogged about my WP2.5 upgrade here and I’ve already said that the upgrade, aside from the WP Gallery, there really isn’t any major inclusions that would make be jump for joy. And for the WP Gallery, it’s not working properly on my Mimbo theme so I made a few hacks and tweaks on the WP include files as what I’ve seen on one of the WP forum threads. Usually, the WP Gallery should work as this, but mine is working as this through the courtesy of Lightview Plus plugin.
How often do you upgrage your Wordpress System?
March 20, 2008
A Beta release (2.5) is already available for public download, would you update? What is your current Wordpress version?
This blog is using version 2.3.2, the available version when I installed in from the Hosting Control Panel. Two of my other blogs are also still using version 2.3.2 and I don’t see any need for upgrading. For me, as long as there’s no problem with my current system or there’s no new feature in the new version that interests me, I don’t need to upgrade just so I could go with the flow. If I remembered it right, the only time I upgraded was when the tag system was introduced. The new version, according to the release notes, will enable customizability of your dashboard and some other stuff.
In a nutshell: I have been working for a laptop manufacturing firm for more than 5 years now and based from our experience, everything new almost always comes with a few bugs. And most of the times, the would bugs take at least 3 months to be fixed. Sometimes it could take half a year. Sometimes forever and the developer would just discontinue the product.
