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

December 2008 – WordPress 2.7 has been released. Time to re-capture the WordPress releases. Ozh did so recently. Check out his Journey Through Five Years Of WordPress Interface.

For those who tried those nifty feeds to FeedBurner hacks from here, here or here: you should assure that the rewrite conditions/rules are on top of your .htaccess.

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# temp redirect wordpress content feeds to feedburner
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedBurner    [NC]
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedValidator [NC]
  RewriteRule ^feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/yourfeed [R=302,NC,L]
</IfModule>
 
# temp redirect wordpress comment feeds to feedburner
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedBurner    [NC]
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedValidator [NC]
  RewriteRule ^comments/feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/yourcommentfeed [R=302,NC,L]
</IfModule>
 
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

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.

Download is not available anymore

This package contains:

• the previously released thumbnail patch
• full SSL support for admin actions

UPDATE: as Alex mentioned in the WordPress forum, he already fixed the SSL-issue in his trunk version. I will keep going on to apply the SSL patches and provide the package here on my site, as long as Alex’ changes hasn’t made it to a public release.

Download is not available anymore

This package contains:

• the previously released thumbnail patch
• full SSL support for admin actions

Download is not available anymore

After fixing a few more SSL issues in the admin area of the NextGen Gallery, I decided to release a fully patched gallery package.

This package contains:

• the previously released thumbnail patch
• full SSL support for admin actions

The non-patched gallery is available here.

UPDATE Fixed WP MultiUser Version (bless and perdition of Copy&Paste). Thanks to the Unwesen for pointing me to this issue.

UPDATE The Thumbnail Patch had an small issue. All following thumbnails has been aligned like the first one. Thanks to Tillmann for pointing my attention to it.