http://www.murky.org/blg Tending to Geekiness Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:19:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I wanted to style my wordpress dashboard, purely to see if I could. It wasn't too difficult, and this is how I did it. In my theme, I found the functions.php file (creating it if it did not exist) and added an 'action' which would come into play when the admin-head() hook ... http://www.murky.org/blg/how-i-styled-the-admin-dashboard/ Thanks to a helpful email from Ian Stewart, I now have solved the problem whereby I wanted my child theme, murkymatic, to check for the existence of a variant.css file. The issue was that I was not using the path to the directory, but was instead using the path for ... http://www.murky.org/blg/thematic-functionsphp-problem-solved/ I have been playing with thematic, a theme framework for wordpress. In particular I've been making 'murkymatic' which is a child theme based upon thematic. The source for this is up at google code (I don't yet know how to package a release for non-svn downloads I'm afraid, or how ... http://www.murky.org/blg/thematic-functionsphp-problem/ I've played with my new theme a little more, and it is roughly where I thought it needed to be for personal modifications. The first thing I've done is to bleed all the colour out - the default is now a white theme, then I've added in style definitions which will ... http://www.murky.org/blg/more-theme-modifications/ As some will know, I'm coding up a wordpress theme from scratch. The idea is to give lots of flexibility so that the theme can be easily modified using stylesheets alone.  Out of the box, it's fairly gaudy, but this is intentional as it encourages the modification! (Okay, I will ultimately ... http://www.murky.org/blg/wordpress-theme-style-declarations/ The observant may have noticed that the look of this site has suddenly got rather gaudy. There is a good reason for this - I've been creating a wordpress theme which I want to be as flexible as possible. I.e. a 'bare' theme, which can then be styled easily with ... http://www.murky.org/blg/themes/ Wordpress is undergoing a big change right now, it's upgrading to 2.7. Behind the scenes a lot is different, so much so that 2.6.5 to 2.7 seems like an understatement. It feels like a major revision, it should be 3.0. Anyhow, I've taken the plunge with release candidate 1, and from ... http://www.murky.org/blg/wordpress-the-big-change/ I've been having CPU Load errors of late. I don't know why this is - something to do with SQL requests, but it's very frustrating. I can only assume that something is over-zealous in the SQL calls. Therefore, I've removed any plugins that weren't immediately needed, removed things like the calendar ... http://www.murky.org/blg/load-errors/ Most people seeing this will already know - but if you don't, this is a good intro: ... http://www.murky.org/blg/how-to-rss/ Number 10 has modified their site to use wordpress, and it does look good. At first. Unfortunately, they're not using the full power of wordpress - I note in particular that comments are switched off for everything at the same time that they're talking about 'dialogue'. What I find particularly amusing is that ... http://www.murky.org/blg/number-10-and-wordpress/