Blueberryware

Firstly, my apologies for not fixing the issue with the Blueberry theme so that the colors are managable in the admin.  It is now fixed and should be approved by the WordPress team soon.  I don’t really have any excuses besides starting a new buisiness (Shield Computers) and the holidays.  I will be regularly updating from now on however (its one of my New Years Resolutions). As a quick note, WordPress 2.7 is out and  I will be adding support for threaded comments soon.  Thanks for reading and Happy New Year.

This article is awesome for determining if a css background image has loaded. It uses a simple function to determine it, and even allows you to keep a “waiting for load” image before hand (essentially a background image preloader). I wanted to put it here because I am using it in the new OSX theme. There is a spinning gear progress bar while the large background image is resized for our screen resolution and then downloaded.
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Hello All,

As the completion of Blueberry 2.0 draws near, we are looking for some suggestions to help round it out. The CSS is mostly updated for the new theme, so you can view it by just looking over the site. There are no enormous visual changes, mainly some typography and highlights.
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I have been working on Blueberry 2.0 today.  So far I have only checked a few things off my to do list however.  The CSS has been completely rewritten, I find it much easier to navigate.  The theme now changes color by changing the class on the body tag, so no extra style tag in the head now.  As I write this post I will be testing out the shortcode for alternating themes on certain pages.  

If the shortcode is working, this page will be using the raspberry theme.

Update: I forgot that shortcodes get processed when the_post() is called, which is well after the body tag’s class has already been set.  I have a theme template tag that will change the theme on page templates, blueberry_alt_theme($theme).  For example, my email spam protection generator page will always be the raspberry theme, regardless of what the rest of the site is.

Update 2: I do not think that there is a way that a shortcode can be used to change the theme based on when the theme action hook is called and the shortcodes action hook is called. At least there is a template tag for use on a page template.

Update 3: (10/27/08 6:17pm) At this point the front end of the theme is pretty much done. There are some archive page updates I am going to make to the CSS. The toolbox is operational. The toolbox is new to the Blueberry theme. At the moment is has for links, Add Post, Add Pages, Quick Edit, and Edit this. Everything is pretty self explanatory, perhaps except Quick Edit. This is not to be confused with the Quick Edit link in the WP Admin. This quick edit creates an overlayed “thick box” that you can make and save edits to posts or pages. I am currently using this feature right now to append this to this page. Sometime during the week I should be adding the custom theme creator and an Alert management feature. I will also be implementing a “remember me” (most likely tonight). Remember me will set a cookie when you log in, so that if you have logged into the site before, it will prompt you to log in. This feature will be able to be disabled in the admin if its not wanted. Thats all for now.

Hi All,

Sorry for the extended absence.  I am sure everyone one knows how all consuming work can be.  I wanted to detail a few things I will be releasing by the end of the month so anyone listening out their can look forward to them.
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