WordPress 3.0 this week?

On the 25th of december 2009, Jenifer Wells, who works with automattic, published “Setting Scope” on WordPress.org. In her article she summarized how the development process had been before and how it was going to be for next release WordPress 3.0. To sum up the development cycle was going to be a lot more focused than previously and the core team were going to make a development plan before starting the process. As a part of the process they asked the WordPress community which features and enhancements they would like to see in WordPress 3.0. This resulted in 186 suggestions from the WordPress community, and some of the suggestions I found very interesting.

I have been following the development of WordPress 3.0 with excitement. It is evident from the developer site that developers are working hard to get WordPress 3.0 done.

When the feature freeze for development came 1086 tickets had been accepted into the next release of WordPress. (more…)

Tags: 3.0, features, Menu, Release, WordPress
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New Theme Aetas Flower 1.0

It finally happened. I have designed a new theme that is much faster than the last one. The last theme, my Aetas Grunge Theme, was my first attempt to design a theme, and though it worked out well carried beginners issues and other problems. My new Theme, Aetas Flower, does not carry as many issues though I still have a lot of work to do. (more…)

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Optimizing

After the recent update of WordPress 2.8 I have become aware that my site had an unreasonably long load time. In my search for the answer to my problem I look through various wordpress optimizing blogs, who recommended more or less the same

• De-activate unused plugins
• Reduce the number of HTTP requests
• Use WP-Cache
• Enable GZip with WP-Cache

I found a bunch of plugins that I did not really need, which reduced my load time a great deal. However, I found that I no longer had access to WP-cache and WP-Tweaks, which I had previously enabled. So I removed them from my server, and suddenly I went from a responds time 36 sec to below 10 sec! I Do not know if others experience the same kind of problems, but I thought I would be worth sharing.

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The new design

Welcome to my blog =) This is my new theme designed for my blog Aetas. In the top right corner I displayed my logo. I created it using Illustrator and Photoshop. My menu in the top of the blog was created using the same method I have done a tutorial on. It is a menu that uses one image and CSS coding with background positioning. I have had to do quit a bit of research to create this look, however, I think it turn out very nicely. If you would like to know how I have created this look, then please don’t hesitate to ask. With enough responds and time I will create a tutorial. This new design offers a better reading experience for the user in my opinion.

I have not finalized it yet so changes will happen when I get around to make them. There might be a couple of errors around, and there are things I haven’t had the time to fix yet. But please feel free to comment on the design, and post any errors you might find. I hope you will like it.

Tags: Aetas, CSS, Design, Theme, Update
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HowTo: Create a horizontal menu using CSS and one image.

Lets say you want to create a horizontal menu that uses images. And you want to have a hover/roll-over effect as well. You can do this using only one image and CSS. Here is a tutorial on how to do it. You can of course use this tutorial on links as well, where you want the link to display something different when you put the cursor on the link.

Horizontal menu using CSS tutorial

You need the following:

• One picture containing both normal state of menu link, and the hover state of the menu link.
• Your stylesheet in WordPress, that would probably be style.css (located in your theme folder)
• header.php, presuming that is where you want your menu to be (located in your theme folder)

Tags: CSS, Horizontal, Hover, Image, Menu, WordPress
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