Journ­al­ized theme Ver­sion 2.7.2 for WordPress ver­sions 2.5 through 2.7 is now available.

The latest ver­sion fixes a couple of bugs and is now ready for inter­na­tion­al­isa­tion. It comes with Rus­sian trans­la­tion files (Rus­sian trans­la­tion kindly sup­plied by Dmitriy Donchenko)

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or TAR ball journalized-theme-2.7.2.tar.gz

Update: The theme has been updated to ver­sion 2.7.2.

The theme has the fol­low­ing features:

• Comes with six seven built in ‘skins’ (includ­ing the old Blue, Sand, Winter, and Xmas)
• A new admin­is­tra­tion inter­face to con­fig­ure the theme.
• All known browser bugs addressed. Tested in Fire­fox, Inter­net Explorer, Web­kit (Safari), and Opera
• Sup­port for widgits, tags, and Gravatars
• Can be con­figured to have 1, 2, or 3 columns.
• The num­ber of columns can be con­figured sep­ar­ately for archive pages and single posts or pages.
• Sup­ports cus­tom header image, includ­ing in the background
• Sup­ports full-width or cen­ter column header
• Com­pat­ible with WordPress ver­sions 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7
• Sup­ports threaded com­ments (WordPress 2.7 only)
• Sup­ports paged com­ments (WordPress 2.7 only)
• Sup­ports drop-in cus­tom skins
• XHTML 1.0 transitional
• Sup­ports mul­tiple lan­guages. Comes with Rus­sian as a second language.

Here is a screen shot of the new admin­is­tra­tion inter­face used to con­fig­ure the theme.

And here is an example of the nes­ted com­ments. It also sup­ports paged com­ments in WordPress ver­sion 2.7.

You can con­fig­ure a num­ber of fea­tures of the header:

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After almost two years of inactiv­ity, this theme is finally updated and avail­able again.

You can down­load the final release here:

ZIP file journalized-theme-2.7.2.zip
or TAR ball journalized-theme-2.7.2.tar.gz.

This ver­sion com­pletely replaces all the old ver­sions, includ­ing the stan­dalone Journ­al­ized Sand, Blue, and Winter themes (unless you are still on WordPress 1.5).

Please give it a try and let me have any feed­back in the com­ments on this page. I have kept the old com­ments here, just add any new com­ments as usual. The theme is licensed under the GPL. So you may modify it and dis­trib­ute it. I’m very inter­ested to hear 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.

I will write some more inform­a­tion about cre­at­ing your own skins in the next few weeks. I will also doc­u­ment some of the hun­dreds of con­fig­ur­a­tion possibilities!

Update: You can now down­load an extra skin! This is the Xmas skin I occa­sion­ally use on this blog. Note this skin is now included with ver­sion 2.7.2.

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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