i spent a few hours this weekend modifying the blogtxt wordpress theme to mimic my old bonq-v2 theme. i still really have issues w/ sidebars, they just don’t do it for me. as far as the blogtxt theme goes, i really haven’t had to modify anything other than the style.css to make all the changes i want.

kudos to scott/plaintxt.org for such a well-rounded theme that’s easy to modify.

i don’t think i’ll ever get used to using em vs px for defining sizes though. i’m going to poke around a little more w/ blogtxt, but i also should see what other themes are out there. there’s apparently been monster growth for the wordpress theming community though. a google search for wordpress+themes now generates 6,870,000 hits.

here’s the top few that looked like they had some useful themes.

• http://themes.wordpress.net/
• http://www.wpthemesfree.com/
• http://topwpthemes.com/
• http://www.themelab.com/
• http://www.solostream.com/
• http://www.wpthemespot.com/
  

and yeah. i just really wanted to post that picture.

you wouldn’t think that the toolbar icons are all that important, but it is rather hard to post when the whole post box disappears. i’m not sure which plugin is causing the issue, i just went in and disabled another one and the box is back. for the most part wordpress 2.5 is a nice upgrade but as with any upgrade there’s gonna be bugs.

atleast most of them have just involved turning off plugins at this point. i think i figured out where the code might be having issues (#) but i don’t have any time to look at it right now. the activate/deactivate shuffle will have to do for now.
(toolbar vs no toolbar)

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Originally uploaded by patwack

seperating the sandbox content from the rant content. too lazy to go back and move all the old posts into this new category. maybe when i’m not so busy….