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- Enhanced WordPress Theme GeneratorToday
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Over the weekend, I caught word of a brand new WordPress theme generator that was written by Ryan Hellyer of Pixopoint.com. The generator lets you configure various aspects of a WordPress theme such as the sidebars, headings, footer, etc. Once you’re finished, you can export the files and use the theme on your own blog.
I got in touch with Ryan over the weekend and this is what he had to say.
What is the PixoPoint template generator and what is it capable of doing?
The PixoPoint template generator is an automated web based system for creating WordPress themes. By using the control bar on the left hand side of the template generator you are able to modify a wide range of features on the website. I’ve included some standard templates to start people off, but the sky is really the limit. By changing images, colours, widths, number of sidebars, menus etc. you can create an infinite number of WordPress themes.
This isn’t the first time the community has had access to a WordPress theme generator. What makes this one better than previous attempts?
I thought I’d created the first one initially. It wasn’t until I was trying to come up with a name that I thought of googling ‘template generator’ and found a few different generators for various pieces of software, including WordPress. The template generators I found had far less features than the PixoPoi
- WordPress Theme Releases for 12/02Yesterday
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An elegant 2 column, widget-ready WordPress theme featuring a clean design great for blogs of all kinds.
Single column, fixed width widget and gravatar ready theme with threaded and paged comments.
Two column theme with a beautiful background featuring the Northern Lights
- Another WordPress MilestoneDecember 1
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At approximately 19:38:33 on December 1, 2008 Ryan Boren became the owner of the 10,000th changeset to the WordPress code. This particular code set change was a re-ordering of font families for Windows font selection that was initially patched by Matt Thomas. There has been a discussion taking place within the WP-Testers mailing list that the Bitstream font is horrible and that it needed to be replaced by Verdana. Looks like they received their wish.
By the way, the first Changeset to appear since the WordPress team began using Trac happened on April 1, 2003 (6 years ago). The changeset involved a new respository initialized by cvs2svn and the author is anonymous.
cvs2svn is a program that can be used to migrate a CVS repository to Subversion (otherwise known as “SVN”) or git. Documentation:
A hearty congratulations goes out to not only the core development team, but to all those who have submitted patches that in turn were committed to the core.
- WordPress Plugin Releases for 12/01December 1
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New Plugins
A simple plugin that will disabled right-click and prevent selection of text on your blog.
Allows the user to display a Ciao Box in the sidebar.
Autodownload is a WordPress plugin that enables your blog to provide downloadable files either in your posts or pages.
Shows the authors page even if the author has no post.
Updated Plugins
This plugin shows you all active WP cronjobs (scheduled tasks) of your weblog in the “Site Admin” area and if you want, you can stop the cronjob(s).
This plugin is a data manager for any recurrent datasets. It can be used to manage and list a DVD collection,to to present portraits (e.g. athletes of a team) or anything you can think of.
This plugin uses Javascript to dynamically expand or collapse the set of months for each year and posts for each month in the a
- Drupal 5.9 To WordPress 2.6November 30
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For quite awhile now, I’ve been monitoring a specific blog post from May 15th, 2007 which is a tutorial on how to migrate from Drupal 5 to WordPress 2. Many things have changed since then between both pieces of software and thus, the scripts provided on the site will not work.
Every now and then, someone publishes a comment that contains a link to an updated version of the script to work with newer versions of Drupal and WordPress. DovDox is the latest blog to publish an updated portion of the script albeit with a caveat.
Taking my usual hacksaw-and-duct-tape approach, I simply deleted the portions that didn’t work. That means my version moved all of the posts and comments to the new blog, but didn’t preserve any of their categories. Drupal’s ridiculous “taxonomy” system just isn’t easy to map onto Wordpress’s much more rational categories and tags, and in any case the hard part of the move was getting the posts and comments over.
DovDox takes the script and makes it so that the content and comments are transfered between a Drupal 5.9 installation into a WordPress 2.6 install but due to the taxonomy system, categories are not migrated. If you choose to use the script provided