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Wordpress themes using HTML5

Eystein — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:10:44 +0000

I’ve been thinking of doing a Wordpress theme in HTML5 for a while, and the best way to get inspiration is to look at other people’s work. I haven’t found very much though. So far I’ve found:

Do you know of any others?

A couple of good HTML5 resources:

And finally, a great overview of how to build a Wordpress template from scratch from ThemeShaper.

Wordpress automatic upgrader FAIL

Eystein — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:56:26 +0000

A quick warning to anyone using wordpress considering using the Wordpress automatic upgrader. DON’T USE IT! I was lucky and it worked on this blog, so I went ahead and used it on another site. Which is now permenantly stuck in maintenance mode. Thanks guys. Offcourse, if I’d done my googling before trying it out I would have know better. There are plenty others who have the same problem. And the solution in the faq? Doesn’t work either.

Enough ranting, I gotta get back to googling now.

The NextGEN Gallery for Wordpress

Eystein — Mon, 26 May 2008 11:51:35 +0000

The nextgen gallery is a great not-so-little plugin for Wordpress. If you have a imagegallery you want to display I’m pretty sure this will cover most of your needs.

My problem, offcourse there was a problem, was that my square thumbnails would stretch the images. So annoying that I ditched the idea of square and went on with my day. Before doing so I did my share of debugging/googling forums, so I could rant to my co-workers afterwards. Mid-rant I realised what the problem was.

The thumbnails are set upon upload, so changes to the format is bound to make changes.
Solution: delete gallery and upload the images once more.

Lesson (re-)learned this time: When stuck with something it always helps talking with others about it.