Finally the new almost stable WP 2.5 is ready. After a few days of testing, it shall be out to general public. I have obviously signed up as a tester, and shall keep you readers posted on the development! I’m so excited. Matt has promised the sun moon earth [not the entire solar system though!] in this release. As per the announcement, we can expect better UI, re-organization for better functionality, and a better post organizer.
I like to design wordpress themes and change my site look, sometimes as often as twice in a month. To help me with this, I have incorporated a plugin called theme-switcher.
Below is the details of the plugin, if you are interested.
/*
Plugin Name: Theme Switcher
Plugin URI: http://wordpress.org/
Description: Allow your readers to switch themes.
Version: 0.5
Author: Ryan Boren
Author URI: http://boren.nu/
*/
Now because of this penchant of mine to design skins, my theme folder is littered with several themes, which I don’t want to show. So yesterday, I sat up really really late, and selected 4 of my favorite themes, and moved the rest. If I used the plugin as-is, I would end up displaying the i-phone skin as well, with a theme selector. I didn’t want this. So I ended up tweaking the presentation via CSS to give me more creative control. I then ended up with the color grid (see below) on each of my skins.
Voila!, I now have four skins for my site… Neat or what?
PIC.1.0 COLOR GRID