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The standard themes that come with wordpress are OK !! but if you want something really good / different you have to go elsewhere.  I found quite a lot of themes on Wordpress Themes and particularly liked the Modern Sofa 10 theme.

This is particularly relevant these days as I am always falling asleep on the sofa and wake up in the early hours of the morning.

It was a good starting point but something were lacking which I modified by hand ie. put the title on the search box, modified the footer to take out the advertising etc etc.  There are still somethings that arent quite right for instance the tag cloud isnt formated properly but that is not the themes problem that is a problem with the tag cloud that comes standard with wordpress as it really needs a tag cloud div html tag created around it.  When I have more time I will try to sort that out.

Any way think it looks quite alright for the mo….

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Using the carrington theme and after switching to permalinks I noticed that the wordpress search doesnt seem to work.  Not sure if this is by design or what.  After a little bit of scrabbling around I decided to hack the scripts so I changed the search.php script which sits in themes/carrington-blog/forms.  I commented out the permalinks section of the if like so

/*
if (get_option('permalink_structure') != '') {
    $onsubmit = "location.href=this.action+
'search/'+encodeURIComponent(this.s.value).replace(/%20/g, '+'); return false;";
}
else {
    */
    $onsubmit = '';
//}

so that it always does the non permalink bit whether or not it is selected.  Seems to work still, all comments welcomed on this.

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Well tried several and dont think any of them are that good.  For one thing that is a problem is that google only seems to work in internet explorer which I guess is by design.  I cant get any of the google adsense stuff to appear on my wordpress blog using firefox to surf the pages – unless my adblocker is stopping them but I dont think its configured for it.  Any ideas any one am I being a really silly person as normal ???

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Well subtext has fallen out of favour and no one is really updating the software side of it any more.  Wordpress seems to be the latest fashionable blog software out there at the moment.

So I exported my subtext blog to blogml then used this very nice blog article to import it into wordpress.  I did what the chap says but didnt really have any problems at all.  The only thing I had a problem with was that the categories didnt keep their names, so just had to rename the categories once it was in wordpress format.

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Right I have fixed the view picture size problem in .text as it was really bugging me.  I have removed the width and height settings so that it either defaults to the size of the picture, or you can override the settings using css now.

The new binaries with the change in are located here 

 http://www.paulfarrow.com/download/dottextpicupdate.zip.

You will then need to override the css in your options css override as follows:

.imageFrame img { width: 505px; height: 480px }

It does make the picture look a bit squashed but its in the correct place, play around with the sizes until you have what you want…..

Let me know of any problems that I have overlooked.  Take a look at the viewer here http://www.paulfarrow.com/gallery/2.aspx

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