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Archive of posts filed under the Themes category.

Advice for picking a new theme

I’ve recently replaced every available user theme at the Blog Peoria Project, which cut the number of available themes almost in half. Some of you had to pick new themes, or you were shunted over to the default Blog Peoria theme. And some of BBP members have never changed their theme or even made any [...]

New themes for Blog Peoria members

Via Weblog Tools Collection: Beauty Two column, WordPress 2.8 ready theme with an options page and featured posts using SmoothGallery. Game RV Game RV is a compatible with WordPress 2.8 with Gravatars, threaded comments, widgets, etc. It has a right single sidebar. Facebook Look 2 Three column theme that looks and feels like Facebook. All [...]

Site news: A new direction for default

If you previously were using the WordPress Mu Default Theme you may have already noticed some changes. The WPMu Default was, in fact, the default theme on this site. Today, I changed the default theme to a slightly modified version of “White as Milk,” which I think is a prettier theme and more more basic [...]

Themes: All themes now BuddyPress friendly

What is the use of having all this spiffy new BuddyPress functionality if your theme doesn’t display the admin bar? Or won’t properly display the content from the BuddyPress widgets, like the list of recently updated blogs? Answer: Not much use at all. So, I spent four hours pouring over all the themes, eliminating the [...]

Site news: 30 new themes added to Blog Peoria

Here they are. None of them are tested with WordPress Mu (at least not with THIS version), but none of them are in Beta. Report any problems to me.

Site News: New theme: Mike Little’s Journalized

‘Journalized’ has been around for years, and it came in Blue, Sand and Winter versions. The new Beta version includes those versions as “skins” and includes three others. This version also supports uploadable headers and a choice of 1,2 or zero sidebars.