Well, actually I’m just telling you the obvious: der-eremit.de has got a new theme. The header still needs some re-work, and their might be a few rendering issues, but all at all this is the new look.

In my previous post, I already mentioned that I there has been a little clean up. Additionally I’ve added a some new things to page:

• using WP-PageNavi for paging now
• Using qTranslate for multi-language support (theme isn’t ready for multi-language)
• removed widget-support (classic sidebars are quite more simple to style)
• and much more

Better late than never, but I’ve done some ‘house’ cleaning yesterday and today. There have been a whole bunch of plugins that I wanted to get rid off; amongst other plugins that have been NextGen Gallery, WP-PostRatings, WP-Downloads and the Contact Form. Furthermore I shrinked the page amount (Downloads, Sitemap, Gallery, Tools are gone), cleaned up the options as well as the database itself. Finally I also finished the prototype of the new blog theme, which will be online in a few days.

• Removed ‘LifeStream’
• Added comment subscriptions
• Added recent post of commenter
• moved RSS Entries, Comments and Twitter links to top

As I haven’t wrote a changelog for a long time, some new and some older stuff here…

General:
• Added nice tooltip for links
• Added ‘Sitemap’ under ‘Tools’
• Added ‘LifeStream’ under ‘Tools’
• Added new category ‘almondeyes’

Plugins
• Remove post rating plugin

Theme:
• CSS box layout for Link Summary and Related Posts like the one for Comments
• Moved social bookmarks to top-right of post header / post meta

Recently there have been more and more requests to explain the somehow strange category names of my blog. Well, so here we go:

• Almondeyes
  This category is brand-new and will contain the stuff from my former asian movie blog almondeyes.de. It will be mainly about asian movies and it stars and tries to provide you with information, news, trailers and scene-shots.
• Banishing Words
  Covering another big addiction of mine: books.
• Clam Chowder
  As I’m a long-term linux user, I’m pretty comfortable with the shell. Clam chowder is a soup made of sea shells and so this one covers all topics that are related to linux, security, technology, development and so on.
• Deep Cosmos
  I guess this one will point you into a wrong direction: it’s not about the space upon our heads, but the one below our feet – to be more exact, it’s the place where I put my diving experiences into words.
• Gamble Zone
  Kinda easy to get, or isn’t it?
• Hermitage (fka Internal)
  Hermitage has been called ‘Internal’ so far, but has been renamed for consistency. It covers all topics related to the administration/maintenance/changes of my blog.
• In The Flic
  General movie topics — everything that isn’t covered by almondeyes.
• Kibosh
  The word ‘Kibosh’ derives from Yiddish, but it’s exact origin isn’t clear so far. Anyways, Kibosh became a synonym for nonsense and you will find those little funny pictures, videos and so on here.
• The Haunted
  Besides the fact that ‘The Haunted’ is a great Death Metal band, there’s also a story behind that category name, which is related to the band again of course. Once my former co-worker unwesen queued ‘The Haunted’ in our rooms playlist, which resulted in a ‘Oh, there he is again: The haunted man’ by another co-worker. So ‘The Haunted’ became to a synomym for Death Metal to him. This already explains what this category is about: predominantly the rougher types of Metal music and related topics.
• The Homeless (fka General)
  Also recently renamed due to consistency concerns, and covers all those topics that haven’t got a specialized location.

Some of you might have already noticed it, but I would like to mention it anyways: there’s a new point in the top menu called ‘Network’, which consists of a few sub pages, that represents the categories of the blogroll. For this purpose I wrote a simple plugin, which lists all links of a certain link category on a page by simply placing [brlist=catID] in the page body (I remember that there have been a similiar plugin a while ago — I guess it have been called ‘Links Page’ or something like that, but couldn’t find it anymore). As soon as I’ve made some tweaks to it (mainly preparations for styling) and if there are requests for a public release, I will offer it in the download section.

Short and crisp:

• Fixed RSS Entries and RSS Comments links

• Moved Archives & Categories to Top Menu
• Cleaned sidebar
• Added GeoTrack & Plugins page as Sub-Page of Misc
• Temporarily removed links section

• Switched completey to english
  Background: as there have been more and more requests from non-german speakers, some side effects of the xLanguage plugin, the fact that most plugins couldn’t deal with xLanguage and that I have been sick of writing in two languages led to a full switch to english finally.
• Removed xLanguage
• Deactivated Social Bookmarks
  Need to patch the plugin, so that I can decide where the bookmarks should appear
• Added following plugins by Lester Chan:
  1. wp-postratings
  2. wp-postviews
  3. wp-pluginsused

• Added xLanguage by Sam Wong
• Changed templates to multi-lingual