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I have been using wordpress maybe over a year now. For the last couple of months, I have been editing some themes after a while i got bored and started coding my own theme.  I designed this theme couple of months ago but never finished it. So i was finally be able to fix the small bugs and release it for public. Here it goes, It’s my first wordpress theme release, but not my first design.

About theme

Version: 1.0 (initial release)

It’s a two column theme. Content is in a light colored box, which is on a dark background. I’m pretty sure there are a lot of fixes need to be made. Please let me know about them so I can try to fix them. I’m also planning to edit some sections. But I think It’s good enough for an initial release.  Theme was bit different but I had to adjust it to meet requirements at wordpress.org/extend/themes. I’ll also release an extended version of this theme. Comments and suggestions are welcome.

They have just released 2.6.1 after two beta versions. Seems like they fixed plenty of bugs. Although, I haven’t noticed any of them. I upgraded my blog as well, but not because of those fixed bugs. I did it to get rid of that notice in dashboard. It just annoys me. Plus, there is not really a major change. I think they are going to start adding new features just like they did afetr 2.5.1. Go ahead and vote some ideas at wordpress dot org.

But anyways, wordpress 2.6.1 is available for download. If you wish to get rid of that annoying notice from your dashboard, go ahead and download 2.6.1 and upgrade your blog.

Yet another release from Wordpress, according to the roadmap for future releases,  Wordpress 2.7 will be released on November 10. But before then, there is going to be 2.6.1 just like the 2.5.1 before 2.6.  Ryan Boren, lead developer of Wordpress, has released the second beta version of 2.6.1. It’s available for download.

I just upgraded wordpress on my localhost to this version. There is not really a big change between 2.6 and 2.6.1. It’s mostly the bugs they fixed from previous versions. They want to get ready before they start putting 2.7 together, new features and all.

They fix the bugs and release a child version then, after getting some reviews on the release. They start developing the next main version. I think it’s a good system.

Anyways, a new beta version is available. Here is the link to Ryan Boren’s site.

Recently, Facebook released a new look for facebook. If you have a facebook account, just log in and you will see a bar on the top showing information about this new look also a link to switch from old facebook to new facebook.

New facebook Screenshot

Will facebook lose its identity?

I don’t know if they are going to change it for everyone or they are going to let people choose which version they want to use. Hopefully, they will let people choose. I really don’t like the new one. I think they should remove that bar on the top, the new look doesn’t look right with that bar on the top. I don’t think they are going to get good feedback on this.

Facebook is on its way in becaming one of those social network sites like myspace, hi5. I think facebook has a unique design and should not have a major change at once. They are going to have to redesign some of their applications which I think it’s going to make the site bit more similar to other social network sites.

Anyways, a new version of facebook is avaliable for facebook users.

So I have finally updated my blog to Wordpress 2.6 and I wanted to try its new features.  Just before this new release, I was looking for a plugin that can caption images. It’s a pretty neat feature of wordpress 2.6.  So I went ahead and tried. What happened was that there was no style. It didn’t look good. I went ahead and took a look at my page’s source and tried to edit  CSS but it didn’t work.

But yesterday,  I found this codex article at wordpress dot org. It has fixed the problem. Here is the code block that you need to in order for it to work with style;


.wp-caption {
border: 1px solid #ddd;
text-align: center;
background-color: #f3f3f3;
padding-top: 4px;
margin: 10px;
/* optional rounded corners for browsers that support it */
-moz-border-radius: 3px;
-khtml-border-radius: 3px;
-webkit-border-radius: 3px;
border-radius: 3px;
}

.wp-caption img {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0 none;
}

.wp-caption p.wp-caption-text {
font-size: 11px;
line-height: 17px;
padding: 0 4px 5px;
margin: 0;
}

Of course you can edit this as you want to fit to your custom wordpress theme. I have changed couple of things and here is how it looks;

This is a picture I took in St. Petersburg in Russia.

Screenshot - wordpress.org

Finally It’s been resolved. We all know that wordpress has a theme directory at “themes.wordpress.net” but it has stopped accepting themes months ago. When this happened, people started releasing their themes on their web site which made it hard for people to find new themes.

Wordpress just made an annoucement about their new wordpress theme directory. It’s under “extend” umbralla at wordpress dot org.

The new wordpress theme directory is “http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/“. Upload has been made easy as well. It’s working too!!!. Until now, you would have to mail a moderator and if they approve your request, which they never did, you could upload your wordpress theme.

All you have to do is to register at wordpress.org then you will be able to upload your theme as a .zip archieve. Once it gets approved, you will receive an email for further instructions. For more information on this, take a look at this post at Wordpress Dev Blog.

Just a quick note, I’ll be uploading tenthblog’s mini design from last year. I need to update couple of things before I upload. So stay tuned.

Lately, I was having this problem with Gmail site. I’m not sure if it was my system only or browser itself in general. But I have encountered this problem twice so far. It happened once when I was using Firefox 2 and one more time couple of days ago in Firefox 3.

There seems to be a problem with Gmail Logging process in Firefox. Again, I’m not sure if it was only my system but I remember reading it some where else as well. I’ll put it that other source if I find it.

What is the problem?

When you enter your username and password at gmail’s main page, it will not let you access your mail index page where you can browse your mails. If you type your information correct, it will recognize your username but not your password. It won’t tell you it’s wrong. When you enter it wrong, it will tell you that it doesn’t match.

You know that information is correct but Gmail simply won’t accept your password and it will keep asking you to re-enter. To make it more clear; lets say that you are logged in and browsing your emails, when you want to use another service of google, it will ask you to re-enter your password just to make sure but not your user name. So this happens after your first correct try. It will ask for your password but it won’t accept it even though you know it’s the correct information.

What can you do to fix it?

This never happened in other browsers or at least the ones that I used. Before I list couple of ways that I think it might be able fix your problem. In firefox 2, nothing in this list worked for me, it just started working again. I don’t know how. I was able to fix it by clearing cache and cookies then restarting firefox from the menu in firefox 3.

• Before you do anything with Firefox, Restart your browser then restart your computer.This might just work if it’s anything with your system.
• Re-installation of Firefox after uninstalling the one you have.
• Disabling recent plugins
• Clearing Private Data (Ctrl+Shift+Del)- Cookies and cache should be enough.

One more time, this is a problem I encountered two times already, Maybe It was my system only,  I posted this to make it easy for others who might be having this same problem.

As it was announced, wordpress 2.6 has been released and ready for public use. Soon, this blog will be updated to 2.6 as well.

There are some new and neat features in 2.6. Since they have made a 3 minute video and I have to catch a flight, I won’t write much I’ll just provide the link. Here is the link to the official annoucement page for 2.6 at Wordpress Dev Blog. This release also called Tyner, named after Jazz Pianist McCoy Tyner.

Here is a small list of new features from wordpress dev blog

Word count! Never guess how many words are in your post anymore.

Image captions, so you can add sweet captions like Political Ticker does under your images.

Bulk management of plugins.

A completely revamped image control to allow for easier inserting, floating, and resizing. It’s now fully integrated with the WYSIWYG.

Drag-and-drop reordering of Galleries.

Plugin update notification bubble.

………

Allright, we are a step closer to wordpress 2.6. A release candidate has been released last weekend and it’s ready for use.

Here is the direct download link for RC1

• Click here to Download Wordpress 2.6 RC1

Even though I haven’t tested this new release yet, it looks like 2.6 is going to be a good improvent after 2.5.1.  Also, they are planing to release another version today. As they announced before, they were planing to release a stable version in mid July. So it’s probably going to be the final release. For more information, you can go to Boren’s site to read the last announcement on this.

Here is a list of couple of features;

• Media uploader and gallery improvements
• Image caption and image editing fixes
• Press This fixes
• Ability to toggle between the flash uploader and a regular browser uploader
• Notification bubble on the Plugins menu when plugin updates are available

A link is avaliable at boren’s site for full list of features.

Back in last year, when I was running a gaming clan, I had to design my own small content management system. The application I built was being used my clan members as well. So I had to make it user friendly. The best way to do that is having informational messages in your system to help out your users.

For instance if your user has performed something,  some message should appear saying that whether the action has been performed successfully or has not been performed. This kind of system messages can be used in your posts as well. Take a look at this example.

These info or status messages will add a professional look to your website. I have been working with CSS for sometime now. Now, I know how easy these stuff are.  So I thought I’d make this tutorial.

Here it goes.

First thing we need to do is to find a wordpress theme to work with. I’ll just use this blog’s default theme.

The only trick is that the background color and the border color. So whatever you pick for your background color, you should pick a darker tone of that background color. This is to make the border and the whole thing noticeable.

Here is our first try, I’ll call this division class “positive”.

.positive {
background:#f6f9c7 url('img/icons/ok.png') no-repeat;
background-position:8px 5px;
border:1px solid #d3d6a6;
padding:8px 0px 10px 0px;
text-align:center;
font-family: Tahoma;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight:bold;
}


.download {
background:#f6f9c7 url('img/icons/dl.png') no-repeat;
background-position:8px 5px;
border:1px solid #d3d6a6;
padding:8px 0px 10px 0px;
text-align:center;
font-family: Tahoma;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight:bold;
}

.stop {
background:#f6f9c7 url('img/icons/stop.png') no-repeat;
background-position:8px 5px;
border:1px solid #d3d6a6;
padding:8px 0px 10px 0px;
text-align:center;
font-family: Tahoma;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight:bold;
}

.att {
background:#f6f9c7 url('img/icons/att.png') no-repeat;
background-position:8px 5px;
border:1px solid #d3d6a6;
padding:8px 0px 10px 0px;
text-align:center;
font-family: Tahoma;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight:bold;
}

You can change properties of these as you wish. It’s simple CSS. Only thing that might be tricky is the position of our background image.  You can use percent values instead of pixels. But unfortunately, that didn’t work in X direction as I wanted. So i used pixels.


background-position:8px 5px;

First value is the X axis and second value is Y axis. Other than that, there is no tricky part. Feel free to use them. Here is the icon set I used.

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