Go check it out. If you have any questions or comments, please ask them or leave them on the theme page.

• A couple of 2.7 only dependencies have now been fixed.
• A problem with versions of PHP less than 5 was fixed.
• The theme is now translatable and comes with Russian built in (Thanks to Dmitriy Donchenko)

Go to the theme page to download it.

As usual, please add your comments, questions, or bug reports to the theme page.

I am particularly interested in feedback on the internationalisation of the theme. This is the first time I have translated a theme, so I may have done some things wrong! I have included the POT, PO, and MO files. If anyone wishes to translate the theme to other languages, please do, I am more than happy to distribute other language files with the theme.

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You can download the xmas skin here:
xmas-skin-2.7.1.zip.

• Once you have downloaded it. Unzip it, then upload the files to your journalized/skins directory.
• Go to Appearance -> Journalized Options in the admin screen, and select the new skin.
• If you want a picture of Santa to appear along side your blog title, type ‘santa.gif’ into the ‘Header Image’ box and uncheck both ‘Add the image in the background’ and ‘Turn off the blog title’.
• If you want your header to be full width, check that box and set header image height to be 138 pixels (that worked for me)
• Finally save your settings and you are done

I hope you enjoy this bit of seasonal frivolity.

I’m still working on the translatable version of the theme. There may well be another release soon.

A reminder of some of the new features:

• Comes with six built in ’skins’ (including the old Blue, Sand, and Winter)
• A new administration interface to configure the theme.
• Support for widgits, tags, and Gravatars
• Can be configured to have 1, 2, or 3 columns.
• Supports custom header image, including in the background
• and many more…

Go get it now!. As usual, leave feedback on the theme page please.

The theme includes support for WordPress 2.7 features, but is backwards compatible with WordPress 2.5 and 2.6

Just some of the new features:

• Comes with six built in ‘skins’ (including the old Blue, Sand, and Winter)
• A new administration interface to configure the theme.
• Support for widgits, tags, and Gravatars
• Can be configured to have 1, 2, or 3 columns.
• Supports custom header image, including in the background
• and many more…

Go check it out and let me know what you think. (Leave feedback on the theme page, not here)

Remember this is still beta code. It is a minor update to the previous release. I have a lot more code written, but it is not complete or tested yet.

Update: I’ve put together a readme file listing the changes I made.

There a few things different about this new version:

• All previous ‘skins’ (Blue, Sand, Winter) combined together
• Three new skins + more to come
• A new administration interface to configure the theme.
• All known browser bugs addressed
• Support for plugins
• Compatible with WordPress versions 1.5.x and 2.0.x
• Lots more to come

See the theme page for details. Please download it and give it a try.

• Journalized Blue
• Journalized Sand
• Journalized Winter

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.