2005-01-07

Blosxom's themes: iztsu & graffitti

Synopsis

I dedicate these themes to Blosxom's users all over the world.

And I hope that these help you to customize your sweet Blosxom blog.

Features

  • Unicode (UTF-8)
  • Valid XHTML 1.1
  • Multiple theme set; including html (writeback), wikieditish, trackback, rss
  • Tableless (excluding calendar)
  • Font-sizes scaling by Percentage (visitor has control)
  • Consequently, 7 plugins following:
    1. Rael's theme.
      This is a minimum request.
    2. Miyagawa's wikieditish.
      You can send TrackBack ping.
    3. Fletcher's Writebackplus.
      Features: to Leave comment, display recent writebacks, easy-antispam, leave post-time etc.
    4. Todd's categories.
      Display category and breadcrumb menu.
    5. Struan's storytitle.
      Display story title at TITLE of head.
    6. Rael's foreshortened.
      Using RSS's output.
    7. Bob's lastmodified.
      Using RSS's output.
  • Additionally as my suggestion, require 5 plugins following:
    1. Nagashima's paging.
      It provides "Page 1/3: 1 2 3 › »", like Google search result.
    2. Nagashima's back_and_forth.
      It provides "« previous page | next page »", like a individual page on Movable Type.
    3. Todd's calendar.
      Display entry's day at calendar.
    4. Brian's archives.
      Display by the year and month on sidebar.
    5. Fletcher's entriescache.
      Your blosxom speed up processing. Before using, please delete the relative caches on plugin's state.
  • Now, as a my another suggestion about helpful plugins; Seemore, Google_highlight, Find, Markdown. Those are satisfactory options.

By the way, all of the flavours comprised in above plugins are not required. Please remember it. And "iztsu & graffitti" are not flavour files! They are files as a theme's set for theme plugin. The distinction of them is only left or right, The HTML structures are all same, the CSS structures are only different.

Installation

  1. First, this theme requires theme plugin. You ready? And this theme places your themes directory.
    • e.g. $theme_dir = "/your/directory/here/themes/graffitti"
    • e.g. $theme_dir_url = "http://your/url/here/themes/graffitti"
  2. Completed! Mnn... theme plugin is too fast too simple than setting flavour files!
    If you customize background-images, see this site: squidfingers. Remarkable patterns!

See more ...

"archives" plugin is not valid XHTML - posted by Aivars -
year's "li" tag isn't closed when you have entries for more than one year. Below is my patch. If it's not readable, blame writeback plugin.

51c51
< $results .= "$indent$indent\n";
---
> $results .= "$indent$indent\n$indent\n";
55c55
< $results .= "$indent\n\n";
---
> $results .= "\n";
- posted by avo -
I'm grad you posted. Your patch is working good, valid! Thank you.
- posted by andrew j - 2004/10/27 17:26:37
Hi-

Looks great! But I'm having getting the writebackplus plugin working with your theme. Is there any extra configuration needed???