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I’ve released two brand new FREE WordPress themes in the last two days. The first is Base Dark, which is a light on dark variation of Base. The two themes are exactly the same, but I decided to make the light on dark version after a user request. So again, the theme focuses on doing all the basic WordPress features right, while having a few added features, like a options page for inserting a logo. Continue reading…

A WordPress theme with a unique “grunge” design.

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*Update 1 (24/09/2008):

Scruffy has been updated to version 1.1.

Changes that have been made:

1. Changed background images so that “Latest post” only displays on the homepage and the comments text does not appear on pages.

2. Added wp_footer() in footer.php. This allows plugins to hook into your footer and allows them to add code, etc in your site (Very important for some plugin’s functionality)

*Update 2 (08/10/2008):

Updated to version 1.2.

Changes:

1. Added default WordPress gravatar support. (Removed old gravatar code in comments.php and replaced with standard WordPress code.)

*Update 3 (08/10/2008):

Updated to version 1.3.

Changes:

1. Last lank in widget lists is now clickable in Internet Explorer.

I’ve been a big fan of Scott Hansen’s work for a quite a while now. I first saw his work via Styleboost, back in 2005. His use of colors, lines and textures is truly awesome, and has inspired alot of designers.

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Have you ever lost your WordPress admin password and not been able to recover it? This has happened to me once or twice in the past. It happened again today, I just completely forgot the password. Trying to recover it using my email address didn’t work either.

So naturally I went snooping around the database of the site to find my password. (Oh, it’s probably important to mention that this solution only works if you have access to the databases of the site you are trying to log in to…). Continue reading…

I created this theme to streamline my free theme development process. The result is a very solid WordPress theme, covering all the basic features a standard WordPress theme should have…plus one or two extras. BASE is extremely easy to customise.

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Background patterns are awesome. When done right they add an interesting depth and texture to a design, without being obtrusive. Unfortunately I’ve never been very good at designing patterns. That was until today when I discovered bgpatterns.com. Continue reading…

Today, while working on some client work, I came across a bit of an ‘issue’ with the WordPress 2.5 media uploader. Today wasn’t the first time I ran into this ‘issue’, but previously I didn’t worry about it too much. But seeing as this was a client project, I had to sort it out.

The thing is that WordPress automatically re-sizes your “full-size” images to a width 0f 500px. So let’s say you have a content column 600px wide and you want to insert a image into a post that spans the full width of that column. So you crop your image to 600px, then upload it using WordPress’ media uploader. Next you select the “full-size” option for the image and insert it in the post. Continue reading…

I came across this video of Joshua Davis at QBN Sessions on September 24, 2007. I like how he interprets Jackson Pollock in his work. Abstract expressionism the digital way. Pretty awesome.

Very true words…

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration

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This is my second post on problems I have encountered with WordPress 2.5. In the previous post, WordPress 2.5 – Where’s the category ID’s?, I explain how to track down the missing category ID’s on the manage categories screen. This post deals with a problem regarding custom fields.

Custom fields are a great way to add “custom” information to a post, for example urls of thumbnail images for posts, or to add special CSS classes to the markup. This post will show you that WordPress 2.5 does not save custom posts correctly, and I will also demonstrate how to prevent this from happening. Continue reading…