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  • Hanna 10:32 am on 11 December, 2008 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , first impressions, , ThemeHybrid, ,   

    New Wordpress 2.7 – huurrah! 

    shout-fun-wI managed – following instructions from Wordpress Codex site here, I manged few minutes ago to upgrade this humble “bloggie” of mine.

    The upgrade was painless and relatively quick. My host, one.com , worked without the glitch – big thank you to One!

    Everything seems to work so far. What’s next than? Well, I suppose that it’s the time to play with the new Hybrid theme, based on Hybrid theme framework  Child Theme – “Old School”.  It looks quite amazing (especially “under the hood”) but – it will take some time for me to adjust it to my vision of the site (a bit “gloomy”, greyish, personal blog). Anyway, new version of software deserves “new clothes”  :) .

    My first impressions of Wordpress 2.7? It’s great – I like new administration interface a lot. It seems much more “user friendly” and the overall look suites my taste. I also hope that the new feature – automatic upgrade – will work in the future. Not that the upgrade was too complex or difficult. It was just… stressful.

    And as the last note – apologies to myself and others who visit occasionally my place here. I did not update Moonlit Minds lately because of few reasons. One of them being learning how to use social web applications like FriendFeed and Twitter (yes, it takes some time…) another – being busy with real life matters.

    I hope to share some of the things I’ve learned about “social web” in the near future. Perhaps my sharing my experince and mistakes will help some other people who, as me, are new to this stuff.

    I wish everybody nice day (remember: weekend soon!) :)

     

    • edkohler 12:45 am on 25 December, 2008 Permalink | Reply   More from author

      2.7 is pretty sweet. I like the dynamic navigation on the left. That's a time saver. And moderating comments has improved.

    • Hanna 12:59 am on 25 December, 2008 Permalink | Reply   More from author

      Hi Ed and thank you for stepping by :) . The more I use 2.7 the more I like it, too – quick posting is another “killer” feature worth mentioning.
      I wish you nice Holidays and a Happy New Year.

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  • Hanna 10:26 am on 15 October, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    How I became the member of Theme Hybrid 

    This is how (I spotted it yesterday while browsing the ThemeHybrid site):

    October 14th, 2008 WordPress

    Club memberships at Theme Hybrid for $10

    And I can tell you – it is a bargain! Great offer – just check yourself! According to me, the membership is worth more and I was thinking of becoming a member for quite some time. The only reason I did not join Theme Club on Hybrid site earlier is that I was not convinced if I will blog here for a longer time (amount of time and effort needed for it – do I have it? or rather – will I have it still?). But Justin Tadlock’ s offer was too good to resist. This offer + my “aforementioned catastrophe” = new Theme Club member.

    Check yourself – among other things you will be able to acquire this Child Theme:

    Beautiful Options Child Theme

    I just downloaded it yesterday – and I have to tell you – it is beautiful. I just have to change the header (read it: spend some time playing in Gimp) – and you will see it here, on my site. :)

    But it’s not only about what you can “get” for your money – it is mainly about supportng good cause. If you want Justin (and also other Wordpress designers) to create those pieces of art – well, I think you should join their clubs. At least this is my meaning. And this is how Open Source works…

     

    • J Mehmett 5:51 pm on 15 October, 2008 Permalink | Reply   More from author

      Justin Tadlock is a talented WP man. I really like his ideas. Thanks for sharing this.

    • hanna 7:57 pm on 15 October, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      Thank you for stepping by and taking time for commenting.

    • Justin Tadlock 7:03 am on 18 October, 2008 Permalink | Reply   More from author

      Thanks for joining the club.

      For me, it’s never been about the money, but I also had to find a balance between theming and my regular life. So, putting a small price tag on things lets me get more work done and give back to the community. Plus, having a large community, helps keep things cheap.

      I’m glad you decided to join. And, the theme looks good on your site (if you’ll allow me to boast a little).

    • hanna 11:12 am on 18 October, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      Hi Justin – and first of all – thank you for your comment – I feel really honoured!
      And, yes – the theme looks splendid – even my son (21-year old web developer – sic!) is speechless and does not advice me to change anything this time… :D So, it is me to say “thank you” to you.
      As to money – do not feel bad that you charge for your work. For the first – price is really very small (it was affordable even before you introduced this amazing offer), for the second – as far as I understand Open Source – it is totally OK to charge for software and service (take a look at Red Hat and Mandriva, for example) as long as you keep the code available to the public – and you do it! People like me, who do not have knowledge to write the code themselves, have to pay for it. Come on – I am the teacher – I want bread for my teaching service, too :)
      I hope that your community – or may I say ours…? – will grow and I hope that you will keep on creating those coding masterpieces. Best luck from a long-time Linux and Open Source user!

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  • Hanna 12:44 pm on 14 October, 2008 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Options theme, ThemeHybrid, ,   

    Options Theme 

    I decided to write a little bit about the theme I am currently running on the blog – not because it lacks documentation – it has splendid one at ThemeHybrid site, but because I would like to share my perspective – the perspective of a new to Wordpress.org user.

    The most important for me in this theme are following features:

    1. It has (nomen omen ;) ) options page or – settings – it means you can easily configure some vital functions of your blog (more about it below) .
    2. It has Home page. Yes, it is very important if you would like to transform your Wordpress CMS from blog to Website.
    3. It has Child Themes – actually it comes with 3 (!) different looks in the pack (blue, grey and beige – all very nice). You can also, as member of Theme Club, download one more theme – Good & Evil – which I chosen on this blog.
    4. Options being Parent Theme can be easily upgraded without you loosing your small “tweaks”.
    5. The Theme comes preloaded with many other interesting features like inserting thumbnails into the posts and few Page Templates.
    6. It has fantastic navigation.
    7. One can “easily” add new functions by editing functions.php file – well, this is not really easy – but possible – and even I could do it by following the manual written by Justin Tadlock HERE.
    8. It has splendid look – and I write here not about the colours but about typography.

    One can in relatively easy way transform Wordpress blog into the centre of your “Internet life” – create your own personal or professional place on the web. Options “plays well” with most of plug-ins but honestly speaking – you will not need many additional.

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    • ofyavs 10:53 pm on 16 April, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      i did not find Options Theme v1.3 anywhere. Can you help me for this?
      Sorry for my bad english.
      ofyavs[at]gmail.com

    • tamihania 11:29 pm on 16 April, 2009 Permalink | Reply   More from author

      I'm sorry but I cannot help you – Options Theme is discontinued by theme author, Justin Tadlock.
      Explanation here:
      http://themehybrid.com/support/topic/cant-downl...

      (but you can try other themes by Justin – f.i. one used on this side is the child theme of Hybrid :)

    • ofyavs 1:43 pm on 17 April, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Unfortunately Hybrid is not the same thing. Maybe in future it will become better but now Options my N1. Anyhow, thanks for your explain.

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  • Hanna 9:22 am on 14 October, 2008 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: learning, , ThemeHybrid, ,   

    Great catastrophe… 

    So, it finally happened – my dear, modest blog – clothed with Thematic theme by Ian Stewart – “exploded” on me. Well – it did not literally explode – it simply disappeared – together with the content.

    Sad…

    I spent whole night trying to recover the thing – but, shortly speaking, I did not manage. (I have a backup of a few first posts from September but not the last ones).

    Why did it happened? He, he – my own fault – I was “tinkering” too much and experimenting with some plug-ins and themes. The poor, old blog did not obviously stand this amount of ill-directed “creativity”.

    I strongly believe though that all events – especially of the aforementioned kind, have an aim. My “mini-catastrophe” made me thinking. Perhaps I was going the wrong way…? Well, certainly, I was! The thing I know a bit about is how to write and present things, which eventually become interesting for some people. It is definitely too early for me to write my own style sheets or PHP functions.I should rather keep for a while easier (from the user point of view!) blog theme.

    I also realized that I need some kind of support – just like I had while starting with Linux (3 years ago) – and nothing beats the support one can get from the forum (Ubuntu, Arch, Sidux). That’s why I decided to try Options Theme right now – it has marvellous documentation and – you can browse forum on the ThemeHybrid site. Not mentioning the quality of the theme – splendid, a lot of pre-built functions and possibilities.

    But Options is another subject – I feel obliged to write about this piece of software next time and a bit more than just few sentences.

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