Update 7 Dec 2008: This theme is super­seded by Journ­al­ized Theme ver­sion 2.7. Please use that ver­sion from now on.

Update 12 Nov 2008 There is a new Beta ver­sion 2.7 avail­able to try, see the theme page for details. Please down­load it and give it a try.

This ver­sion is now defunct and will no longer be maintained.

On this page you can find the latest ver­sion of my blog lay­out and col­our scheme as a WordPress theme.
Click­ing the thumb­nail below will show you a full size screen shot of the theme in action.

This release incor­por­ates many of the fixes and changes sug­ges­ted by people try­ing the theme.

You can down­load the files from here: journalized-blue-theme-1.0.3.tar.gz (tar ball for unix or sim­ilar users) or journalized-blue-theme-1.0.3.zip (zip file for Win­dows users).

To install simply expand the archive on your local machine. You should have a dir­ect­ory called ‘journalized-blue’. Upload the dir­ect­ory and the files within it to your wp-content/themes folder on your server. Login to your blog’s admin­is­tra­tion pages and go to the Present­a­tion page. The new theme should be lis­ted there ready for you to select. If not check the per­mis­sions on your uploaded files.

Enjoy! The theme is licensed under the GPL. So you may modify it and dis­trib­ute it. Please let me know if you use it, modify it, etc. If you have any ques­tions leave a com­ment on this post with your ques­tion. Com­ments are mod­er­ated so you won’t see your com­ment immediately.

What’s Changed?

The main changes in the themes are these:

I’ve added miss­ing tags to the main sec­tion of the theme. That is, the ‘Pre­vi­ous Entries’ and ‘Next Entries’ links after the main con­tent. I’ve also added in the Next and pre­vi­ous story links above the post when you are look­ing at an indi­vidual post.
In the side bar I’ve removed all the get_links() and get_linksbyname() calls and sub­sti­tuted a single call to get_links_list().

I’ve adjus­ted the CSS to dis­play the nes­ted unordered lists from the call to dis­play like the h4/rightsidesection com­bin­a­tion we had before.

I’ve added a page tem­plate for pages like this one with slightly dif­fer­ent lay­out for the con­tent. There are some minor bug fixes on the pages and I’ve added the the fix for aligned or floated images not dis­play­ing in Inter­net Explorer.

Update: 27/06/2005
Because the side bars are nar­rower on Journ­al­ized blue than Sand or Winter, the cal­en­dar on the right hand side doesn’t quite fit.
A quick cure is to change the pad­ding in the cells. You need to edit the table#wp-calendar td rule in style.css
Go to line 307 and change the 3 pixel pad­ding to 2 pixels. It should end up like this:

table#wp-calendar td {
    padding: 0px 2px;
    color: #000000;
    text-align:center;
}

I’ll issue a new ver­sion as soon as I’ve incor­por­ated another fix and some recent changes.