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Upgraded to Wordpress 2.7.1
I upgraded the site to Wordpress 2.7.1 tonight. Everything seems to be working fine, but let me know if you come across anything that appears broken.
My new Wordpress Theme
As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve updated the theme I use for One Digital Life.
Although I haven’t exactly been an active blogger for quite a while now (most of 2008), I just couldn’t stand to look at the theme I was using any longer. I’ve wanted to simplify the site for a long time, and last Saturday night I got a giant bug up my butt, and decided I HAD to change the site that night. I stayed up until 5:00am looking at, and tweaking Wordpress themes.
The theme I chose to use is called, deFusion. It was nice, but I’ve never been an out-of-the-box kind of guy, so I’ve tweaked it quite a bit. It’s not quite there yet, but it’s getting closer. I’ll probably be fiddling with it for a while, so don’t be surprised if things are a little different each time you come by.
I think it worth mentioning that I did take some inspiration from Arron Martins blog, which I think is awesome. Arron has achieved a simplicity that is really beautiful. I’ve had themes with this basic structure before, but I did borrow Arrons color scheme.
Every year or so I write about how I want to create a Wordpress theme from scratch (instead of using an existing theme as a starting point), but I just never seem to find make the time to do it. I may still do that one day, but that day is not today. Besides, if I were to redesign a site right now, it would be my Portfolio. It’s been almost 2 years since I updated it and I’m feeling the itch. :)
As I mentioned, I haven’t been doing a lot of blogging lately. I actually miss it. I really want to get back into the habit of posting regularly again. In fact, I have some pretty big news that I want to share, but that will have to wait until tomorrow. ;)
SF WordCamp 2008 is August 16th
Registration is now open for San Francisco WordCamp 2008. The event takes place at the Mission Bay Conference Center on August 16th, 2008.
Upgraded to latest Wordpress
I upgraded this site to the latest version of Wordpress tonight. Everything should be working, but if you see anything that looks broken please let me know. Thanks!
Happy Birthday Wordpress
Wordpress turns 5 today (5/27). There’s a party tonight at 111 Minna here in San Francisco.
Wordpress 2.5 is out
Wordpress 2.5 has officially been released. It contains numerous updates and enhancements. Read all about it, here.
100 Free Wordpress themes
Smashing Magazine has put together a pretty nice list of 100 FREE Wordpress themes. [LINK] [via deziner folio]
Some Upgrades for One Digital Life
I wanted to have a complete redesign of the site by 2008, but that obviously didn’t happen. But, I did do a few small upgrades the other day. In addition to upgrading to the latest version of Wordpress, I also added a some functionality through 2 great plugins…
SRG Clean Archives
This is a great plugin for making a more useful archives page. The default archive format for the theme I’m using just had links to the past months and categories. It wasn’t very useful. Now it has each post listed in chronological order. The plugin also has some spiffy Moo Effects built in, but I chose not to use those.
Sideblog
This plugin allows you to add Asides to your blog. I’m calling them Quickies. Asides (or Quickies) are things you want to link to or write about but don’t necessarily warrant a full-blown post. I’m still working out some formatting issues, but you can find the new Quickies in the sidebar. If you subscribe to the feed, the quickies will come in with all the standard posts. One nice thing about this plugin over some other methods for adding asides is it doesn’t limit the number of standard posts that get displayed on the page. All asides also get archived along with all the standard posts.
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