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Hi guys, this is a quick post to inform you all about the Thousand Birdies Giveaway by Gis, my blog-friend and designer. She is celebrating 1000 RSS feed readers. ( Blog of Small Things reached 100 feed readers last week )

If you win, you will get your blog redesigned by her, for free. If you are on blogspot, or using self hosted wordpress blog, do checkout some free themes on her blog ; I should say free and cute themes.

Wish me good luck guys !

Is the current wordpress dashboard design perfect ? Except the widget management page, it’s awesome, that’s what I think …do you agree with me ?

The problem with the current widget management page is this : Suppose your theme has two sidebars/widget areas, and you want to move your text widget from first to the second sidebar. You will remove it from the first sidebar, save changes, select second sidebar from the drop down menu, click “show”, then add the widget to the second sidebar … but wait, already spent a lot of time “clicking” and now, do you have the content of the text widget ? NO !! You should copy the content somewhere before you remove it from the first sidebar ….. you are lost ..

…. Not any more .. here is the new widgets panel, that’s going to be ready with WordPress 2.8, the next release. Have a look, and you will understand how it solves all these issues. For those who are curious if wordpress.com users will get this feature, the answer is a BIG YES ! You may get this even before self hosted wordpress blog users, just wait n watch!! ( Click on the image to enlarge. )

Wordpress 2.8 new widgets panel

PS: Please note that this version of wordpress, 2.8 that is, under development, and there may be changes to this feature when it’s released.

Adding more styles to your wordpress theme, and why is that “style” highlighted ? Simple : because, this post is about making your blog look more stylish, by adding few more stylesheets ie, style sheets for categories.

I was reading this post from http://tarskitheme.com about a brilliant plugin : Category Style Sheets. by Benedict  Eastaugh.  It is a simple but awesome plugin that allows you to add style sheets for each category of your blog. That means, you can have different background colors, images, link colors etc for individual category archives, and each post in that category.

What I have done, ( So Far )

I have created two style sheets for two of my categories. WordPress & Blogging. I have changed background colors for category archive pages, and individual pots in these two categories. Now, go to any blog post in that category and you will see the plugin in action. I have changed only the background color. Should I try more ? Do you have any suggestion ?

How To Do This

All you need to do is,

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WordPress 2.8 is is the next major release of wordpress. The new feature that I am looking forward to, and playing around with now is the new way of installing and upgrading themes.

Please note that wordpress 2.8 is in the development stage and these features may or may not change when it’s released.

With wordpress 2.8, installing a new wordpress theme, and upgrading it, ( when the author updates the theme), is easy. It is done using the same method used for wordpress plugins. One condition : The theme should be hosted on the wordpress.org website, and for that, it should be GPL compatible.

Step 1. Browse and Find a Theme.

From “Appearance” tab, select ” Add New Themes” You will get a screen like this.

Step 2. Search

Search for your theme using keywords, or browse using tags. I searched for the theme “Hybrid”

Step 3. Preview

Preview the theme that you selected. Click on the link “preview” and you will get a preview generated from wordpress.org page.

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Yes ! that’s right .. this is a new Child theme built using the Hybrid Theme Framework. Oh, Child theme ? If you do not know what it is, read this post from Ian. But wait, who designed this theme, hmmm  blame this guy.

Now, if you have read that post from Ian, you will understand how easy it is, to build a powerful theme using the Child theme technique. So, the guy who built this theme did nothing but few css tweaks. The guy who did all the hard work is Justin. Say thanks and congrats to him.

Still, if you want to use this theme, just subscribe to this blog, and the theme will be available for download very soon. Do you like this theme.. ? Do you have any suggestion ?

Its been a while since I used wordpress.com for blogging ..   I got so used to self hosted wordpress blogs, that I  think less about wordpress.com bogs  these days ( hence blog less about them )  .. and I even stopped visiting wordpress.com …  ( just wordpress.com .. I still read your wordpress.com hosted blogs … don’t worry !! )

somehow reached wordpress.com today and spent some time there …. and there, I have a question  for my friends using wordpress.com blogs …

WordPress.com is doing a good job with features that they offer, and they are adding new features every now and then. But, do you miss something ? Do you need something more from them ? …. like … more freedom about looks of your blog … more plugins … etc ? Comments please ………

WordPress themes, one of my favorite topics !! Okay, this time, I am writing a post to let you all know that I will soon be releasing a free wordpress theme. It will be a child theme based on the Cutline theme framework.

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Hi there, I am back, and yes, a new theme …  and probably, you will see another theme here when wordpress 2.7 is out ok ? ( for those who are interested in wordpress 2.7 release, its almost done, and most probably, you will see it before december is here) This theme is one of the favorites, of many people here, I saw very good response when I tried this last time, so hopefully, you are okay with this.

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