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    Migrating a WordPress Install to a New Domain started by sunburntkamel
    When you develop a site on a test server, it's tricky to make sure that none of the old links get carried over to the live site. This tutorial also works if you're moving to a new domain. While using a WordPress export is easier, this method catches everything, which can be important [
    Yet Another Theme Repository started by sunburntkamel
    At long last, the formerly dead themes.wordpress.net repository is open-ish again.  Disconnected and Dream in Infrared have been uploaded, and are awaiting approval.  Promised Land, Walk in the Shadows, and The Thin Line may be uploaded later, if TEMPLATE: sandbox themes will w
    The State of MP3 Players started by sunburntkamel
    Microsoft surpasses 2 million Zunes sold. Apple sells 2.65 million iPods a month
    How is it that the two top selling MP3 players are the two most DRM-encumbered? I think, though, that a survey would be more relevant. Something simple, like "What Do you use to listen to music on the road
    Bus Full of Hippies for Wordpress started by sunburntkamel
    This Sandbox based theme is for self-hosted Wordpress Users. It requires that you install Sandbox 0.9 or above. If you are using the Custom CSS upgrade on wordpress.com, get just the CSS.

    Credits:
    Original design by John Oxton
    Illustration by Denis Radenkovic
    Based on the Textpattern
    Promised Land started by sunburntkamel
    Screenshot

    Credits
    Some abuse of a stock photo by Ryan Ford.
    Based on "for elaine", which became archGFX v02.
    Description
    Design for the Sandbox Design Competition, this theme is purely CSS. The design is a single column, fixed width theme, with 2 footer widget areas. 1 ar
    Urbano-Vegetal started by sunburntkamel
    Made In Tokyo has a great collection of photomanipulations of fanciful cities where nature has overscaled the city:



    via log_070329 (usually NSFW)
    Freedom of Speech has a new home started by sunburntkamel
    Torrent Freak: The Pirate Bay launches an Uncensored Blogging Service. This is great news. after the many altercations whereby wordpress.com has broken and muted both the voices of those it finds distasteful, and those who disagree with their policies, it's great to see someone stepping u
    Desaparecidos: Wordpress.com Sucks started by sunburntkamel
    This is non-news. I have nothing new to report. Everything I have to say has been said by the people directly involved. I am repeating this only as a gesture of solidarity because I am so offended and disgusted by the actions of Automattic, inc.
    Timethief is a wonderful person, who was one o
    Wordpress 2.3.3 Spam Exploit started by sunburntkamel
    If you run a wordpress blog, you should be reading Blogsecurity. This is the feed I use, that only includes the wordpress advisories. I think it's a damn shame that this feed isn't included in the wordpress planet that's syndicated across everyone's dashboard. Security is far more impo
    Widget Depo started by sunburntkamel
    Derek Powazek is one of those household names for the internet generation. So when he releases a wordpress theme, people sit up and take notice. Especially when it's based on such beautiful typography and a solid grid. But for users, the first thing noticeably missing was widgets.
    so%2
    New Competencies for Theme Designers started by sunburntkamel
    Wordpress 2.5's new image uploader solves the longstanding bug of using deprecated XHTML attributes to float images (align="left", etc.), rather than it being done in CSS. This is handled by applying classes to the image when it's inserted into the post, rather than via inline C
    Graded. started by sunburntkamel
    I wouldn't say up-graded, but WordPress 2.5 is definitely different. I feel the need to punish myself thusly, since wordpress is now my day job, besides my 'hobby' of supporting the themes I've developed. I've been playing with the SVN upgrades for a month or so now, making sure
    Austin Bound started by sunburntkamel
    I'm heading out tonight for SXSW (the music part, not the geeky part), so I probably won't be posting for the rest of this week. I do have a new blackberry, and WPhone, so there's a chance I might post something, but it's unlikely. If you're short on reading material, you
    Adding Gravatars to Posts started by sunburntkamel
    With the launch of the Blueprint site, and all the hubbub over the release of Prologue, there are now a couple of good examples of using gravatars for more than just comments. The prologue function is a little weighty to be copied to other themes, since it's built for wordpress.com, so i
    Buckshot Ep. 9: Themes started by sunburntkamel
    Disconnected 1.3 is out. It includes support for WordPress 2.3's native tagging, and preliminary support for WordPress 2.5's get_avatar() function. I know I said I'd never support gravatars1, but since they're going native in 2.5, there's no point in fighting anymore. At l
    social bookmarks on wordpress.com started by sunburntkamel
    This is an addendum to raincoaster's operation global media domination. I never saw the value in these, since i already have my own del.icio.us button in my browser. but she says they drive 10% of her traffic, so I guess I'm not most people. Here are the icons for the various social book
    The Apple Way started by sunburntkamel
    Since buying a laptop, I've had a vague uneasiness about my recently departed RAID 5 setup. My old desktop is now my development server, and I have a portable hard drive I've been using to store all the music that was once on my desktop. It also serves as my backup drive (unlike [...%5
    In Defence of my Absence started by sunburntkamel
    I haven't been exactly forthcoming with posts this month. I haven't been lazy, though. Most of the free time I would normally devote to posting has been spent working on our office's new site. I think the results are well worth the effort, but click the screenshot to see for yourself:
    I Has a Habari started by sunburntkamel
    Bluehost updated all their servers last night or so, so my first response was to upgrade from habari 0.2DR to 0.3.3, My first attempt failed, since the bluehost upgrade moved the location of pdo.so, so my old php.ini didn't work anymore. Fortunately, bluehost now has default php.ini1 %2
    Theme Competitions started by sunburntkamel
    In true wordpress theme competition tradition, Lunarpages is launching a contest, overlapping with Design Vitality contest. Not that many people were entering that one, I guess I wasn't the only one who thought it sounded like a scam. Lunarpages at least has a decent start on terms and co
    Buckshot Ep. 8: Release started by sunburntkamel
    The Moose is Loose!  Joen has released Fauna 1.0 Final(ly)  - I doubt Andy's response carries much weight for wordpress.com after a year and a half, but hey,  fauna's still a great theme.
    Also overdue, but less so:  Movable Type OS has been released.Â
    Vista, Vostro started by sunburntkamel
    Apparently because I do not prefer OS X, I am "not truly a creative". I'm going to file that along with "a true gentlemen prefers a blonde" as hobgoblins of little minds, Repeated endlessly by people who aren't even sure what the statement means.
    I bought a Vostro 1500, so that
    Adding Search results to Wordpress 404 pages started by sunburntkamel
    Okay, so all this redirection business, and the 404 logs it generates, made me really get annoyed with seeing the blank 404 page I have. It's just the basic page that comes with Sandbox. Looking at the page was especially frustrating, since I knew that the URL I was looking at was close
    A New Title started by sunburntkamel
    Guru? Yeah, it's kind of surprising to me, too. Yes, I know how to spell WordPress correctly, I deliberately chose not to. I find it as annoying as Joen does. For the record, WordPress™ is a trademark of Automattic, inc., and I am not affiliated with them in any way.
    Defensio started by sunburntkamel
    Defensio launched their public beta today. I've been part of the private beta for a couple months now, after openly criticizing Akismet. Defensio is a similar tool, so it does fall prey to the same "wisdom of crowds" weaknesses. Defensio's usability far outstrips SK21 and Akismet2%
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