There’s finally an official repository for WordPress themes! The new WordPress Theme Directory replaces themes.wordpress.net, which hasn’t been accepting new themes for quite some time now, more than a year.
WordPress theme developers can login to WordPress.org and upload their themes for review. The Theme Directory doesn’t require Subversion like the Plugin Directory does, which should make it much easier for theme developers to get their themes in the directory.
You can read more about the new WordPress Theme Directory at the WordPress blog.
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I just got a new digital camera a couple weeks ago! It’s a Canon Digital Rebel XT (EOS 350D). I’m still pretty excited, my new Canon is a major upgrade from my old Olympus.
My new Digital Rebel XT has been a pleasure to shoot with so far, but I still have a lot of things to learn, this is my first experience with SLR cameras. One thing I absolutely love about the camera is it’s ability to continuously shoot. It’s extremely nice for photographing fast moving children who never sit still. No more missed shots while waiting for my camera to focus.
The Digital Rebel XT is very easy to use. After receiving the camera, I immediately put the lens on, popped a cf card in, and was able to start shooting. Ashley was even able to pick it up and shoot without any instructions. I’ve been really happy with the camera so far and am very much looking forward to more opportunities to shoot with it, should be fun.
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I released Unwakeable 1.5 last night. This means Unwakeable is 100% compatible with WordPress 2.5! The previous version of Unwakeable, 1.2.1, didn’t play so nicely with WordPress 2.5.
Unwakeable 1.5 was built from the ground up using K2 r687 as a starting point. I decided to start fresh for Unwakeable 1.5 and scrapped pretty much all the code from 1.2.1. Unwakeable still has all the features it had in previous versions.
Advanced navigation and live search now work in Unwakeable. Unwakeable also comes with the K2 Sidebar Manager, a superior alternative to WordPress widets. You can enable the K2 Sidebar Manager or you can use WordPress widgets, either one will work. Or, if you don’t like sidebar managers, you can continue to modify the contents of sidebar.php to get the sidebar setup you desire.
You can download Unwakeable 1.5 from the official Unwakeable page. Please let me know of any bugs or problems you run into.
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K2 Release Candidate 6 has been released. This release of K2 is fully compatible with WordPress 2.5.
I will be using K2 release candidate 6 as a base for Unwakeable 1.5. You can expect to see the release of Unwakeable 1.5 later on this week. You can download it from the official Unwakeable page.
Head on over to the K2 release candidate 6 announcement post for more details on the latest K2.
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WordPress 2.5 was released on March 29th. The current version of Unwakeable (version 1.2.1) doesn’t play so well with WordPress 2.5. The only thing that’s really broken is the dashboard, which is a pretty big thing to have broken.
It seems there’s a known issue with K2 themes and the WordPress 2.5 dashboard, as explained in the K2 support forums. There’s supposedly a fix for this issue, but I could not get it to work fully. The fix works fine as long as you have K2 sidebar modules disabled from the theme options page.
Unwakeable 1.2.1 is so far broken and outdated I’m not even going to make an attempt at fixing it for WordPress 2.5. Instead, I’m working on Unwakeable 1.5, which is based off K2 Release Candidate 5. Unwakeable 1.5 is almost finished and should be up for download within a week, if not sooner.
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