For those of us who like to use highly customizable free WordPress themes like Suffusion and Thematic, there is some good news today: Atahualpa 3.5.2 is available for download. Unfortunately (did you guess that was coming?), Atahualpa 3.5.2 has a serious bug that causes server CPU and memory usage to skyrocket. I've tried Atahualpa 3.5.2 on multiple servers and in all cases the CPU usage spirals above 37% and the memory usage goes beyond 5%. Such a shame because its straight-edged look is a great alternative to Suffusion's curvy look. I advise anyone wishing to upgrade to Atahualpa 3.5.2 … [Read more...]
This Month at JournalXtra
January 5, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Welcome to 2010. Wasn't 2009 a hell of year? Come to think of it, wasn't the decade a bit of a fuck-up. I sincerely wish you a much better year and decade ahead. In fact, I know 2010 will be a good start to a fantastic decade; and I'm eagerly awaiting the discovery of a monolith on the moon - Arthur C. Clark predicted it so it must happen. And there's a point, where are the flying cars we were promised 20 years ago? O.K, o.k, Don't get on my back, I know we're 5 days into 2010 and this welcome note is a little late but I have been busily trundling away behind the scenes at JournalXtra … [Read more...]
The Most Impressive WordPress Theme Bar None
December 24, 2009 by 8 Comments
Updated Wed, 3rd Feb. 2010 We Wordpress bloggers are a funny lot. We style our sites with a theme, we edit it to get it how we want it, we think it's perfect and then we see another theme that's even more perfect so we start over again. Some of us even go so far as to learn to create our own "perfect" themes only to decide that the next pre-made one we see is even better. I suppose we just get bored very quickly. Well I know I do; and I get very annoyed with myself because each time I use a new theme I have to set it up to work with my plugins, ad server, widgets and content styling. So it … [Read more...]
