Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

A new theme for a new year

January 6, 2012

Today’s post might be kind of boring and techie. But I’m kind of excited. I actually bought my first WordPress premium theme. They wrote about it on the official WordPress blog yesterday and when I saw it I had to have it. It’s quite near everything I’ve been looking for in a WordPress theme. The theme is called Duet. So instead of writing up a blog post of any substance whatsoever I am going to play with my new theme and prettify my blog.

P.S. I am told my Holga prints arrived today. So stay tuned! I will post them here tomorrow.

P.P.S. And because Preita asked, here is a photo, grabbed off of Flickr, so you can see what a post with an inline photo looks like. This is the medium size and the theme will size it all up automatically to fit in the two column layout.

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13 responses to “A new theme for a new year”

preita

January 6, 2012

I really love this theme. Did it save your wigets or categories? Did you have to retag things? Also post a picture, I want to see how it’d look with pictures 🙂

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1. Moni
  
  January 6, 2012
  
  Thanks! It did save everything (thank goodness!). I’m just going to go through some older posts and see how the formatting is. Posting pictures is different. I’ll have to get used to it. You can post them inline and they seem to format nicely in the two column layout. There are a few posts where that’s not the case though. Videos suck with the two column layout though. But the good news is that you can disable the columns for individual posts so there is lots of wiggle room..
  
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Tiffany

January 6, 2012

It’s a very clean theme! Looks great 🙂

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readytochangenow

January 6, 2012

Very sharp – I like it and am a little sad I didn’t pick it.

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philosophermouseofthehedge

January 6, 2012

Great look and style – will be watching progress

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Stranger

January 8, 2012

Great theme indeed!

I’m thinking to buy it.

But I think that it has a con: No sidebar at the home page.
Is there a way to make sidebar appear on the home page?

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1. Moni
  
  January 8, 2012
  
  Yes there is! I thought about implementing it myself but kind of like how uncluttered it is without it. That’s just my preference though. But, yes, you can have a sidebar if you want it.
  
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  1. Stranger
    
    January 8, 2012
    
    Thank you for the response.
    
    I have a more question 🙂 : Is there the choice for custom background and custom header.
    
    Thanks Moni, I’ m thinking to buy it!
    
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    1. Moni
      
      January 8, 2012
      
      There is a choice for custom background but not for custom header. You can upload a logo but since I don’t have one I haven’t tried it to see what it looks like…
      
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  2. davideorecchio
    
    January 8, 2012
    
    but you need to buy the custom css upgrade in order to implement it, don’t you? thx
    
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    1. Moni
      
      January 8, 2012
      
      For the sidebar, It’s a feature that is built into the theme. You don’t need to purchase the upgrade.
      
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