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 (more…)

So it’s over huh?

The Blog Almighty has been busy with a few projects and multiple engagements so there wasn’t any updates in here. I have reviewed the entry posts as well as the feed subscriptions and came up with the following:

aboutcontes - 01 ~ 03

adamarlin - 04 ~ 06

thatblog4me - 07 ~ 09

bluepanjeet - 10

homebiz - 11 ~ 13

bunnybox9 - 14, 33 ~34*

cahkontes - 15 ~ 17

giveawaycity - 18 ~ 20

thousand-permonth - 21 ~ 23

ironnie - 24 ~ 26

pinoyambisyoso - 27 ~ 29

contestu - 30

contestime - 31

internationalfreebies - 32

blogcontests - 35 ~ 37*

There you have it.

In case you’re wondering why your entries wasn’t counted there’s only one reason why. You links are broken as well as the whole blog. Now to be a little fair, I’m suspending the drawing of winners until midnight of Wednesday. June 4, 2008 at 11:59PM (GMT +8). Until then you could appeal on your entries.

* updated links and draw tickets

• 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!

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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

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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.

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But I am the Blog Almighty, ruler of the cyberworld. Not even the Great Firewall of China could stop me from monitoring feeds from my minions. The deities from Bloglines have manifested their interest to support my undertakings. Having your feeds delivered to my Bloglines reader, I could continue to watch over your actions.

Bloglines is a free web-based service which gathers news feeds, blogs and other rich web content. However, most bloggers are still unfamiliar with the workarounds in this web-based feed reader. Some have made their first attempts but did not continue because they got confused after submitting a site for feed gathering.

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However, recently we noticed the sudden drop in EC droppers. As a matter of fact, there were none, nil, zilch, nada. So we expected a sudden drop in the required EC credits for dropping on our widget but here’s what we found.

Lo and behold! A mighty 2,048 EC credits to advertise on our blog.

And yeah! We really wanted to think we’re that popular. But we’d like to call the attention of Entrecard here.

Lo and behold! At total of $50 in PayPal cash and Entrecard credits awaits two lucky winners from among my minions and followers. The prizes are broken down as follows:

Our Prices were Upgraded. Please see this post:

(1) Grand Prize Winner

• Single Use Magazine Style Revolution Pro Media Wordpress Theme from Brian Gardner,
• $30 via PayPal
• Peel Away Ad Script from Harris & Richard
• 500 EntreCard credits
• One month advertising slot (125×125) on our sidebar (currently priced at $15 a month)

(2) First Runner Up

• $20 via PayPal
• Peel Away Ad Script from Harris & Richard
• 300 Entrecard credits
• One month advertising slot (125×125) on our sidebar (currently priced at $15 a month)

(3) Second Runner Up

• Peel Away Ad Script from Harris & Richard
• 250 Entrecard credits
• One month advertising slot (125×125) on our sidebar (currently priced at $15 a month)

We are still calling our allies and other deities to add up to our prize bag. We’ll be updating our list of prizes as time goes by.

To have your names on our mighty draw hat, three things must be done.

• (1) Make a quick blurb about this contest on your blog pointing to this post and to Blog Almighty.
• (2) Subscribe to our email feed.
• (3) Comment on this contest post using your email used for feed subscription to inform us of your completed tasks and point to your entry post.

Tasks (1) to (3) must universally co-exist or your entries will be null and void. For I am Blog Almighty - ruler of the Cyber World, there are rules to be abided as I command.

• (1) Your blog must be at least 3 months old with at least 10 entries.
• (2) Your subscription shall be activated accordingly.
• (3) You have until the end of May to finish your task for the Kingdom bestow his blessings on the beginning of June.

to further ease your way of winning, you could actually copy and paste the block below to your blog entry.

“The Blog Almighty is giving away tons of prices where you can only win the following prizes: (1) Single Use Magazine Style Revolution Pro Media Wordpress Theme from Brian Gardner, $30 via PayPal, Peel Away Ad Script from Harris & Richard, 500 Entrecard credits, and 1 month advertising slot (125×125) on Blog Almighty; (2) $20 via PayPal, Peel Away Ad Script from Harris & Richard, 300 Entrecard credits, and 1 month advertising slot (125×125) on Blog Almighty; or (3) Peel Away Ad Script from Harris & Richard, 500 Entrecard credits, and 1 month advertising slot (125×125) on Blog Almighty.

“All you have to do is blog about the contest with the proper links, subscribe to email feeds and comment about your entry post on the official contest page. Note: A trackback is considered a comment.”

To demigods and other deities, Blog Almighty is looking for allies to co-sponsor this magnanimous deed. Should you take interest in contributing to our prize bag, please send your message to my messenger here.

Moving a site from host to host could be a very tedious job but there are pointers that you should consider to make the migration process a lot easier. Remember that pointing your DNS to your new host or change of registrars doesn’t mean you have moved your site complete. It does not follow and if you’ll allow me to speak in French, I’d say “Non Sequitur.”

So based from my experience, I’ll be pointing out some pitfalls that I had encountered in the past so you won’t have to experience them. Bad for me that I learn from bad experience but good for you that you don’t have to traverse those paths.

So here goes: Pointers for moving domains

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Flash update: blogpotions.com is now blog-almighty.com - same blog, different domain. We’re now being hosted by Hostmonster for I believe a Monster Blog deserves a Monster Host. It’s my third host for less than a year you’ll see how fickle my mind is ;-). My first host - Netfirms, I say is a total mess (though I suggest you buy extra domains from them, they’re cheap and DNS transfer is quite a breeze) but for my Dreamhost hosting, I never really had major problems. It’s just that when one of their clustered servers went wrong, I thought I need to have a back up host so not all of my domains will be affected. So now we’re with DreamHostMonster. Got it?

Now I’m claiming this blog to my Technorati Profile