Wordpress Theme Paperback Writer Theme – How I Made a Wordpress Theme From Scratch

I just started a personal site at http://jeffbarr.com to showcase my pulp fiction type writing (science fiction fantasy horror et al), and also some of my personal projects. I needed a theme, so I decided to do a little experiment and learn how to make a Wordpress theme from scratch. It’s called Paperback Writer Theme - if you like the theme, you can download it and use it freely. I will rite a short how-to on the way I chose to make a Wordpress theme from scratch, as it turned out to be easier than I thought it would be. This is from my personal site, JeffBarr.com:

… I couldn’t find anything much to suit me at the Wordpress Theme Repository, so I decided to learn to make a WP theme, as despite several years of hacking themes and general WP tomfoolery, I had never sat down and tried to make a theme. The result: Paperback Writer Theme – my first and most likely last foray into making a Wordpress theme. Please note that if you want to use it, you will want to add a good deal of functionality – right now it is very bare boned.

Wordpress 2.8 Released

Wordpress 2.8 is now out, and the changes are fairly minor. There have been changes to the XML-RPC code, which could affect you or application you use to remotely post to Wordpress.
From Blog Herlad

Matt Mullenweg has announced the release of WordPress 2.8, available for download from wordpress.org as always, but also in your up to date WordPress install by automatic update. If you haven’t followed the beta talk, you’ll note that it is visually the same as the previous version, but a lot faster thanks to code improvement. It also featured a new widget interface that greatly improves the usage, as well as giving themes the same update and install treatment as plugins. Speaking of themes, if you’re one of those mad people who edit them right in the browser, you’ll like the code syntax added to these things. There is also new screen options on a per page basis, and a ton of bugs are ironed out.

How To Fix FeedWordpress For Wordpress 2.7

FeedWordpress is a fantastic plugin, and is a major part of the multiblogging system I will be writing about soon on Blerz. I use it on most of my Wordpress sites, and its a part of my default Wordpress setup package (also soon to be posted to Blerz).

Update: This has been fixed in the latest version of FeedWordpress. Go download the latest version here

FeedWordPress is an Atom/RSS aggregator for the WordPress weblog software. It syndicates content from feeds that you choose into your WordPress webblog

So you can imagine how annoyed I was when, after upgrading to Wordpress 2.7, I discovered that Feedwordpress no longer worked properly. I got a ‘Fatal error: Class ‘Snoopy’ not found in…’ message after activating the plugin. Here’s how to fix Feedwordpress to work with Wordpress 2.7:
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Blogs – How to Build a Wordpress Blog from Scratch Quickly and Easily

Wordpress has revolutionized the way web content producers (that’s you and I) operate. I started using Wordpress a few years ago, and I was blown away by how simple and intuitive it is to use. Most importantly, it allows you to build and deploy a full, content-loaded website in a matter of hours instead of days or even weeks. If you’re like me, you have a lot of ideas for websites – but not a lot of time. With hosting and domain registration so cheap and easy these days, there’s no excuse for not running as many sites as you can or at least until 1 or 2 of them hit the big time and start making money for you. And, of course, you want the site to make money for you without hours and hours of hard work. So on to Wordpress – and how you can start building sites right now and start making money/getting traffic/learning the web empire ropes right now!
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