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Journalized Theme 2.7.2 Released

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There is a new version of my Journalized theme available. This version, 2.7.2, fixes a couple of bugs raised by users.

  • A couple of 2.7 only dependencies have now been fixed.
  • A problem with versions of PHP less than 5 was fixed.
  • The theme is now translatable and comes with Russian built in (Thanks to Dmitriy Donchenko)

Go to the theme page to download it.

As usual, please add your comments, questions, or bug reports to the theme page.

I am particularly interested in feedback on the internationalisation of the theme. This is the first time I have translated a theme, so I may have done some things wrong! I have included the POT, PO, and MO files. If anyone wishes to translate the theme to other languages, please do, I am more than happy to distribute other language files with the theme.

WordCamp UK 2009 Looking for a venue

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Bids are being invited for this year’s WordCamp UK event targeted for July. Last years event was held in Birmingham and was a fantastic success.

This year I hope we can top that and make it bigger and better. The details can be found over at Tony Scott’s site.

Note, there is a deadline for submissions of midnight GMT on Sunday 25 January 2009 so that’s less than two weeks!

Xmas Skin For Journalized Theme

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As a seasonal treat I have released the Xmas Skin I occasionally use on this blog as an extra skin for my Journalized theme.

screenshot of xmas skin
click for a larger image.

You can download the xmas skin here:
xmas-skin-2.7.1.zip.

  • Once you have downloaded it. Unzip it, then upload the files to your journalized/skins directory.
  • Go to Appearance -> Journalized Options in the admin screen, and select the new skin.
  • If you want a picture of Santa to appear along side your blog title, type ‘santa.gif’ into the ‘Header Image’ box and uncheck both ‘Add the image in the background’ and ‘Turn off the blog title’.
  • If you want your header to be full width, check that box and set header image height to be 138 pixels (that worked for me)
  • Finally save your settings and you are done

I hope you enjoy this bit of seasonal frivolity. 😉

Journalized Theme 2.7 Final Released.

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After feedback from users and some minor tweaks, my Journalized Theme version 2.7 is finally released! The theme is no longer in beta and is ready for the big time.

A reminder of some of the new features:

  • Comes with six built in ’skins’ (including the old Blue, Sand, and Winter)
  • A new administration interface to configure the theme.
  • Support for widgits, tags, and Gravatars
  • Can be configured to have 1, 2, or 3 columns.
  • Supports custom header image, including in the background
  • and many more…

screenshot of theme

Go get it now!. As usual, leave feedback on the theme page please.

New Journalized Theme Beta Released

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After nearly two years of inactivity, I have finally updated and released a new version of my Journalized Theme.

screenshot of theme

The theme includes support for WordPress 2.7 features, but is backwards compatible with WordPress 2.5 and 2.6

Just some of the new features:

  • Comes with six built in ‘skins’ (including the old Blue, Sand, and Winter)
  • A new administration interface to configure the theme.
  • Support for widgets, tags, and Gravatars
  • Can be configured to have 1, 2, or 3 columns.
  • Supports custom header image, including in the background
  • and many more…

Go check it out and let me know what you think. (Leave feedback on the theme page, not here)

That’s a lot of spam comments

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Akismet has caught 2,000,190 spam for you since you first installed it.

Two million is a ridiculous number of spam comments on my little ol’ blog.

I can’t imagine it will get any better, either.

I have to be thankful for Akismet. If you get a lot of spam comments, that you no longer have to deal with because Akismet protects you from them , please consider paying for at least a pro-blogger subscription. It’s well worth the money.