Tag Archive for 'Wordpress'

K2 Style: 1:40am

140amscreenshotIt is with great pomposity that I would like to announce the immediate release of 1:40am, a custom stylesheet for the K2 Wordpress theme, and the one used at this site!

The theme features a fluid-width layout, a dark color scheme, and looks vastly different than any other K2 stylesheet out there! The name of the theme comes from the header image, which I took around 1:40am somewhere in Pennsylvania.


Download the “1:40am” K2 style. (tested with K2 RC6, but should work with older versions as well)

k2themelocationTo install the theme, install K2 if you don’t have it already, then unzip the file to the folder [your wordpress installation folder]/wp-content/themes/k2/styles/, and select the theme from the drop down menu on your K2 options page. Be certain to disable the “ option, as K2’s dynamic column resizing interferes with 1:40am’s fluid width main column.

Upgrading to Wordpress 2.5.1

So as you probably didn’t notice, I upgraded this site to the lastest version of everyone’s favorite content management system!  Not only did the upgrade go seamlessly, but it was done almost completely automatically, thanks to the Wordpress Automatic Update plugin!

Wordpress 2.5 DashboardWordpress 2.5 has so far proved itself a worthwhile upgrade–it features a greatly improved user interface, automatic plugin updating, and writing posts without Windows Live Writer is now bearable!

I have also now enabled page caching, so hopefully pages will load a bit faster now.