Akismet Excerpts

Engtech and I thought this was an excellent suggestion for dealing with the torrents of spam in the akismet panel, but matt disagrees. Engtech wrote a Greasemonkey Script that implements it browser side. I, being ...

The Thin Line: From Skin To Theme

You may have noticed that i really like The Sandbox. Andy suggested a possible path for it to become the default theme, which I think would be an excellent idea. Mainly ...

Wordpress CMS: Sane Menus

Over the past couple days i've moved my entire portfolio from static HTML pages to wordpress pages. for the moment i'm using one template for all of them. With static HTML I was using 1 template per project, which let me show only the current project's pages in the side menu, and the list of projects in the top menu. (example). With Using 1 template, it's tempting to use <?php wp_list_pages() ?> to generate the side menu. except that i have A LOT of pages. 38 at last count. So I want the side menu to only show the list of projects, and the list of subpages for the current project.

While I could do something like hiding .pagelist ul ul ul in CSS, and then making .pagelist ul li.current_page_item visible, the nexted lists under .current_page_item always looked kind of stupid, since there's no way to style them individually. So I looked to squible. because I remembered karrde dealing with a submenu that showed other children of the current page's parent. so now my menu looks like this:

Custom Header in CSS

NOTE: you may use the image linked in the sample CSS below. it was released under the GPL as part of the Disconnected theme. Please DO NOT use my header image.
So you bought the Custom CSS upgrade. but you've already got a ...

Unsleepable for Wordpress.com

This Skin is for Wordpress.com Users. feel free to use this skin 'as is'. the images are hosted on wordpress.com, so it's no different than hosting them yourself. If you host your own blog, please get the zipped version of the skin.

CREDITS
Theme Author: Ben Gray
This theme has been slightly modified from the base theme,
K2 by Michael Heilemann
Header code base gleaned from Foogaming.com
All elements of this theme are protected by the GPL.
Unsleepable uses Fam Fam Fam Silk Icons, modified in places by Ben Gray.

IMPORTANT: This is a proof-of concept release. The classes and ID's of sandbox are not final, so i may need to update this.