Finally the wait is over. The dev team of K2 lead by Michael Hielemann, released a long awaited stable release of K2, an advanced wordpress theme used by thousands of bloggers. They cleansed all the known bugs, therefore its a stable release. Congrats guys. I will be releasing my 3 Column K2 soon based on this stable release. In the mean time download K2 0.9, test it and discuss about it in the forums. Some useful k2 information for all the K2 users.
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3 Column K2 on Sillyness Spelled Wrong Intentionally
Chris J Davis, one of the creators of K2 started showcasing some of the best styles (in his opinion) that are out there for K2 on his blog while he was working on the next version of sillyness. And guess what, currently his blog is sporting the 3 column K2 style and I am out of words. Thank You Chris for choosing mine. Keep checking his blog for the next couple of weeks to find out many styles that are available for K2.
3 Column K2 Revision Six
After lot of requests, I finally updated the 3 Column K2 to the latest svn release (svn-406) with some changes to the last release. Now you can use the Live search when widgets are enabled and I have changed the widths of the 3 columns little bit to look better. So, as ususal if you find anything wierd leave your comment here and I will look in to that as soon as possible. Please check the original k2 forums as well for any help regarding to K2.
People waiting for the release of my current style, have to wait a little bit longer. I am sorry for that, but I am really bizy with my other work as you can see from the low frequency of posts in the last 2 months. So, keep checking regularly and I may release it any time along with my new re-design. Till then enjoy this new release. (more…)
Widgetized 3 Column K2
Now 3 Column k2 got its own page. Check it for all the updates and to get the latest release.
Finally. Yes, the 3 Column K2 style now supports Widgets. Lot of people mailed me that they liked my 3 Column K2 Style, but they want the style to support Widgets. So this release is for all those Widgets fans waiting since the first release. Frankly, all I have changed is three lines of code and added couple more lines of code to the previous release. I should have done this long back but donno why I haven’t checked how to make widgets work. Ya, I was lil bizy with my other work as you might have noticed the low posting in the last 3 weeks. I even missed my favourite F1 last week again this season. Ok enough about me. (more…)
My 3 Column K2 Style
I have been receiving lot of emails recently asking me to release the style I am currently using on my blog. I am using the same revision four of the 3 colum k2 style I released couple of weeks back, based on one of the svn releases (k2-Beta.2-revision-344) of K2. I made few changes to the basic style as you can see on the front page, links page and in the comments template. So, I have decided to clean up the css and release it, as it is on my blog right now. Ofcourse I have to redesign my blog after that.
But before I release my current theme, I want to know how many people are using my Basic 3 column K2 style and how many are interested on my current theme. So, please leave your comments and if I get a good response, I will release it immediately.
Shuttle project for WP was launched
The shuttle project which began back in dec 2004 was finally launched to make the WordPress administration look better. The people behind this project are Khaled Abou Alfa, Michael Heilemann, Chris J Davis, Joshua Sigar, Joen Asmussen, and Bryan Veloso. This project will not be released as a plugin, instead Matt Mullenweg (lead developer of WordPress) will be incorporating these mockups into the official WordPress releases in due course. Check the 20 mockups showing the future of WordPress.
Update on 3 Column K2 release 4
If you have already downloaded the release four, Please download it again as I have done some changes in the css and sidebar. It looks fine in both Firefox and Internet explorer now. The live search with rolling archives is not working in IE (atleast for me in IE 6) but works fine in FF. Thats one problem and I will also look into making widgets work with this 3 column K2 as soon as possible. So, please download the release four and let me know if you have any problems.
3 Column K2 Release 4
Ok it’s time to release the 3 Column K2 for one of the SVN releases (k2-Beta.2-revision-344). When you enable the widgets, the sidebar looks awfull. So, for now you wont be able to use sidebar widgets in this release. I will have a look in to that asap and release an update. This svn release of K2 got Rolling archives and Live search integrated in to rolling archives. I have included the Akismet Spam count code in to this release of K2. If u dont want to show it, You can remove it from the sidebar anytime or you can even customize it if you like it. Ok withouht much delay download it and upload to your theme directory as a new theme and leave your comments if you find anything wrong.
You have to upload this release as a new theme. Dont replace the files from this release into your existing theme.
Download 3 Column K2 (for k2-Beta.2-revision-344)
Revision Four
Revision Four
3 Column K2 – Zip file (for k2-Beta.2-revision-344)
Quick update
Finally, I think I am done with the 3 Column K2 style for one of the svn releases. I will leave it on my main blog while I try to get some sleep. Do leave comments if you find anything wrong and I will look into it when I woke up. And yes, I will release it after I clean up the css in the morning. Till then Good night all.
Note: I have included the Akismet Spam count in to K2. Now you dont need any plugin to display your spam count. You can find it on the sidebar on the home page and you can even replace the background image if u dont like mine or you can remove it completely if u dont want to show it.
Customize your WordPress Excerpts
Chris J. Davis has written a wonderful article where he shares his tricks on how to customize post excerpt in a simple way. Check it out.
Basically my excerpt function takes two variables, the ID of the post, and how many characters two display from that post. Not too complicated. I decided to create two seperate functions so that I could maximize flexibility.