I met up for an interview with the gracious Tina Daunt in Santa Monica (oh wonderful Santa Monica) during our US roadtrip, first slated for the LA Times, before they started firing people left and right, now up at Huffington Post.
The new 2010 theme is slowly starting to take shape, and I’m very much looking forward to seeing what that’ll be about. Meanwhile my, until recently, neglected second child, K2—a spiritual followup of sorts to Kubrick — just went 1.0 before the holidays, and we’re well on our way towards a great 1.1 release.
I’ve got a couple of other projects I should have started a long time ago coming in 2010, and I can’t wait to unveil them as we get nearer to summer. Yes, one of them is a new WordPress theme.
It was great, while it lasted, honestly pretty crazy for a while, and I very much enjoyed it; but its retirement is timely, if not overdue.
Kubrick, by the way, was born in the summer of 2004, which makes it almost five six years old this year. I would never have thought it could have lived for this long.
Thanks Stanley. And sorry.
It being Kubrick appreciation week, it seems fitting Matt let me know that somebody went ahead and named their dog after Kubrick. Not the man though, but the WordPress theme I did!
Kubrick is named after the default Wordpress theme, Kubrick! It’s a really nerdy way of naming our new pup, but my husband wanted to name him with something that’s related to web design and development. #
The fundamentally largest change from Kubrick to K2 is in how the template deals with plugins. For a while Kubrick shipped with a few plugins and some scruffy code, which people could uncomment if they wanted plugin support. Bad mojo.
K2 automatically detects a range of my favorite plugins out of the box, and will upon detecting set them up for you, no hassles. I try to keep an eye on the whole plugin market, but feel free to mail me about your favorite plugins so that I might give them a spin.
Also, K2 will have a configuration file in which you can toggle between two-column or single-column layout, as per popular request.
Other than that it’s getting some nips and tugs here and there and all around; oh, and it is now entirely CSS driven. No more images needed
Turn page. Big bold letters: YEAR THREE
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, friends, family, geeks, freaks, 1337’s and fellow bloggers. Today marks the beginning of Binary Bonsai’s third year as part of the blogosphere. What a ride this last year has been. Holy crap.
Let’s take it from the top
Continue reading ‘Two Year Anniversary’
I talked briefly to Matt yesterday about kubrick two, where he mentioned that WordPress 1.5 would be going on within a day. And lo and behold, despite the lack of an official announcement on the devblog, you can now serve yourself to one slice of premium blogging solution over at the WordPress Download page.
This of course also means that WordPress now ships with a brandnew template, namely Kubrick. There is one minor thing that I wish I had had the time to fix: this version of Kubrick doesn’t welcome returning commenters, only people who have logged in… But such are the losses of a secretive scheduling.
I have however made enough headway into kubrick two, for it to see release probably before the week ends.
Congratulations to the team, great job guys and gals; Binary Bonsai is now a fully armed and operational 1.5 blog. Ph34r m3!
I know that there are a few minor remaining issues with Kubrick (like this), and it is my intention to roll those changes into the final v1.3.0. I try to keep up with the forums, but I’m bound to miss something once in a while, so here’s my plea to you:
If you come across a flaky piece of code, or if you have suggestions that would fit into the scheme of things; let me know, and it’ll go into my todo pile. Furthermore, just so you know, the 1.3.0 will be based off of Ryan’s excellent work and include a good deal of code strains from Freya. Now you know :)
Here’s a question for you, Kubrick users: Should I have the sidebar appear on all pages, or keep it the way it is now?
PS: Shout out to Jens, who helped me with some SQL magic yesterday. You’re so the money!
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