Recently due to redesign my blog theme, i almost visit wordpress site daily for the plugins area , even i found some plugin through Google, i will try to search it in the plugins area , so that for future upgrade , i can just make use the wordpress backend one button upgrade.
One question that pop up when i visit the plugins area, why is it there are no similiar extend area for theme ? if there is extend theme area that having same feature like plugins area, the user can get notification once the theme release the new version.
The news is here when i think about this issue and under the extend i saw the theme directory , related to this an idea pop in my mind, can the theme directory work in the direction that make use of the 2.6 feature - Post Revision , where you can compare the new version theme and your current use theme different ? so in future once you get notify your current theme is release new version, you check the diff apply it to the new theme and use it.
wah ! that will be super easy for theme upgrade, currently working on theme upgrade is really troublesome. Anyway welcome the new theme directory and i wonder will there be a premium theme directory soon ?
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theme directory,
wordpress,
wordpress theme
I blog about the the new theme i use for this blog last week and i did some modification to make it suit my own need, but after a few day thematic release a new version 0.5. This actually make me think about the child theme theory for thematic theme which is a good way to avoid mess up the theme every time it release upgrade.
So i just follow the step by step setup my own theme which is a child theme from thematic and trying to make my life easier if thematic release any new update next time. The only 1 thing that i still need to hardcode is the ads placement,currently if i using widget to place my ads , it doesn’t really give the feel “embeded the ads into content”, if only all the widget in thematic is allow to customize css ( i think it can be done but i got no time to dig around ) so that i put those ads in the widget and forget about it .
I found one of the little bug where when you have unorder list with some content on a page , it looks wierd because of some css issue, so i post it as a bug in the forum and Ian Steward reply me with a solution and put that into trunk version, kudos to Ian for his support.
Lastly i added some of the social thing at the bottom of blog, reflect my personal interest, i been trying to add jaiku feed but it seem like having some problem. Anyway welcome imknight dot net version 9 !
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thematic,
theme
Just not long ago, i had 4 day mc because of some false alarm. Now i kena chicken pox and getting 2 week MC again .. sigh.
I seem like being grounded , can’t leave the house because this can be spread to others, although it seem very common that most of the people have vaccine for chickenpox. Most of the people that i know it’s either have chicken pox during young or getting vaccine injection already.
since there will be 2 week of MC , i must make use of it nicely.
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mc,
sick
I been looking for a clean and allow customization theme for some time already, i been using the dark color theme for the past 7 month and feel like convert back to the clean theme, no such luck for the past few week until i found Thematic
Thematic come with 3 style which allow you to switch btw 2 column or 3 column, other then this, the most powerful part should be the widget part, other then the standard column widget, it added like for index top, index bottom or post insert , which allow you to customize your theme without modify the theme itself.
I think i kickstart the whole changing process this morning around 10am and work non stop until now. Most of the part is ready and i have did some tweaking.The bottom part is currently under testing, i going to put some of widget there to see how it goes.
imknight.net v9 live !
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thematic
Yes i do , this mainly because i can’t speak well. Just now there is a town hall at my office and we meet up with our International President , the person that in charge of our company international biz, i can’t deny that he is really a good speaker, don’t be surprise that a lot of big shot can’t really speak well but those good speaker in the company normally will become big shot.
Starting with some joke as ice breaker , then announce some of the news and explain some of the detail in a humor way and relax, i would say it’s quite enjoy for listen to a good speaker. I hope one day i can have the same kind of confident standing in front and speak ..
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good speaker
I bought the macheist bundle during Jan, but until March then i getting my iMac with leopard and until May i start install some of the macheist application, when i start the install process , i find out that i haven’t get the vector designer serial number, so i just send the support a email to checking on this and i getting the reply today.
yeah, i getting a reply after nearly 2 month, i already found the answer in the forum ,but don’t you think the support really need to be improve ? I have similar case on my flickr account some time ago, but it took flickr reply me after 8 day, i won’t say the time it took it’s reasonable , but 1 month+ is really unacceptable.
Yeah someone told me on flickr forum, a $25 service , what you expect ? maybe i come from service industry before but i would tell you , today even is just a $2 service , you should give a reasonable support else you might losing more customer on this.
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customer service,
flickr,
macheist,
support
The latest Mac OSX leopard come with a cool feature , a backup feature - Time Machine , this is the main reason i getting Western Digital External Harddisk - My Book Essential Edition during pc show.
The starting not really that good, i wish to use firewire to connect my Book and my Mac , but there is no respond after i conect both, so i change it to USB but there are no respond too. After doing some google, i found that i need to install driver in order for my mac to recognise my Book.
WD Drive Manager ( MAC ) - after install this and restart , i have the small WD icon on my menu bar, telling me how many percent more of space i leave. So split the protable harddisk into 3 partition , using 1 for Time Machine , 1 leave it for sharing file with windows system and last one should be using for OS virtualization.
Time Machine configuration is easy, too bad is not detail enough, the only thing that you can configure is which folder to exclude from backup. Thats why i think i will cross using iBackup which i mention in previous post , hmmmm do i need to start the topic about whats the advantage of backup ?
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backup,
my book,
time machine
I was configure my backup process for my imac during weekend, this is one of the free backup application that i found - iBackup , an i series applcation which is quite obious a mac application.
as a mac switcher , we might not know which are the file to backup for mac, iBackup provide a full menu for you to select what you want to backup, incluing system setting and applicayion setting, if the default selection didn’t cover all your need, you can just simply add on your own define folder.
the setup process is simple and direct, you are allow to create different profile, each profile can process some of the backup process, so that you can define different time, backup destination for different profile.
iBackup allow you to configure the method of rsync, you can add in different parameter to configure different scenario, zip method is support too.
simple yet allow different configuration and best this is a free application for personal use, if you don’t have backup habit, i think is better start now.
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backup,
ibackup,
mac
