Category Archives: Blogging

Thematic

By Sharpy | Published: February 4, 2010
Wrote a post a little while back saying that I’d returned to the default WordPress theme Kubrick. This is no longer the case. (I can’t actually remember when I switched away.) Now I’m actually using the theme framework known as Thematic. It’s got a nice minimalist default stylesheet, with great support for extensions and customisations [...]
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Kubrick returns

By Sharpy | Published: November 21, 2009
I wrote a little while back that I was trialling a new WordPress them, Wu Wei. After using it for a little while, I’ve decided to return to the WordPress default, Kubrick, for a little while (I have made my own minor modifications). Why? A couple of reasons: widgets such as Archives and Categories didn’t [...]
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PHP Markdown

By Sharpy | Published: October 31, 2009
While watching a video about blogging from TextMate, I went on further to discover this pretty awesome PHP version of Markdown. After then downloading PHP Markdown Extra and installing it on my site, this is my very first attempt at a blog written purely in Markdown syntax, with no HTML at all. Hope it works! [...]
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Waxing thematic

By Sharpy | Published: October 27, 2009
So. Whilst visiting imjustcreative.com I read this post about WordPress themes which lead me to this article—a list of some pretty cool minimalist/typographical designs. I couldn’t go past this one: Wu Wei, by Jeff Ngan. There’s just something about the gorgeous, chunky Helvetica (well, actually it’s Helvetica Neue—if you have a Mac you’ll be seeing [...]
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