Wordpress Theme

This page contains the updates I’ve made the the base theme to fix things or change the way things look. You’ll be able to download the theme and use it on your own wordpress blog in the near future. The base theme I used was the Rin theme by Khaled Abou Alfa and Joshua, which whilst a great theme I’ve made a few improvements and fixes to the theme where I felt they were needed.

List of Alterations and Improvements:

  1. Fixed a css error, line 905 has display: inline-table. This is valid CSS 2 but firefox 1.5.x doesn’t like it so I’ve removed it for now (may change in the future).
  2. Updated the footer.php code to include a © and then the current year got from php so it auto updates every year
  3. Removed extra space in blogtitle link in header.php line 34
  4. Removed extra spaces in the #top anchor in header.php line 23
  5. Added titles to the single pages in page.php line 9
  6. Changed visited links colour to #005D93 line 608, I didn’t like the black I thought the links weren’t links when they were black so left them as blue
  7. Removed blue wave image from header.php
  8. Re-arranged the div’s in the header to make more sense (blog link first then the other links)
  9. Added Home link, not everyone will realise they can click on the blog title
  10. Made the top link bar bigger to replace the blue wave image
  11. Add more links to top bar
  12. Fixed spacing on the links list, there was a gap between the link and description and not description and next link.
  13. Put the previous posts link on the left and put the newer posts link on the right
  14. Fixed » to be proper html code
  15. Changed height to min-height on .title class css, to allow longer titles
  16. Removed an empty paragraph tag in footer.php which was causing a line to show
  17. Reduced the margin size for the single pages to 20px on either side.
  18. Aligned single page navigation to 20px

To do (subject to change randomly when I think of something new):

  1. Fix single page title css to display the same as title links on posts
  2. Add link categories to the links list
  3. Alter form elements css
  4. Resize the up arrow button at the bottom to fit the size of the bar
  5. Convert deprecated functions to the current ones
  6. Add category post counts to the list
  7. Add category descriptions to the category pages
  8. Add date and time info to various pages, posts, etc.

Download version 1.1.hx18 : rin_1.1.hx18.zip (x bytes) (download not available yet)

Rin is published under the GPL licence

Syntax hightlighting is provided by iG:Syntax Hilite which is available from this site:

http://blog.igeek.info/still-fresh/category/wp-plugins/igsyntax-hiliter/

I’ve made a few minor alterations, increasing the width of the code space and reducing the font size to show more code at a time, I’ve also changed the text headings to something more suitable.

Video insertion is done by Extreme Video Plugin which is available from this site:

http://www.rossgerbasi.com/