Rice Blogger

Previously I have written about Firefox Color Picker and also another Desktop Colour Picker. Since Ades is changing its Color Picker to a freeware, I have decided to give it a try.

Similar to the previous desktop color picker client, you could store more than one color (10 for Ades Color Picker) for your reference later. I am actually using both Firefox color picker and my desktop color picker at the same time because of its convenience. Depending on which is easier for me to access.

Here is how Ades’s Color Picker looks like.

It is just a small bar that floats on top of other windows, this is useful because it does not disturb me while I am doing my work. You could pick colors in HTML, RGB, Delphi, C++ and VB codes.

Great software that is provided free.

You can give it a try and download Color Picker.

This is my own theme design, The Beach. This is a similar 3 columns wordpress theme with a touch to the design and navigation panel. I have changed the navigation panel to be in the centered, and coconut tree would appear when there is a mouse over.

The header had a picture taken by me at Conrad Hotel at Bali, Indonesia a while ago (Yes, it is a great hotel).

Installation is simple > Upload to your theme directory and activate

Modification > Same as previous theme, you chould learn more about how to modify this beach theme here.

Demo

Download Wordpress Theme

Wordpress have so many developers that are working for a better version of wordpress and also external developers who are coming out with creative ideas to make wordpress works better as a blogging platform and also CMS.

Manageable is basically a plugin that could help you do your job quickly when you need to change tags, category, title, author, date or status of your post without having to leave your admin > manage panel. Currently it is only available for download in plugin. The release of Wordpress 2.7 will have Manageable plugin built into it.

Here is a screen shot.

If you can’t wait for Wordpress 2.7, you could download manageable here.

It is weird to say that the original Kubrick theme that comes default with all Wordpress installation actually does not comply to the Wordpress Theme Requirements. Because I would like to give a shot of getting this theme listed at the directory, I need to make sure that all requirements are complied.

Although it may not be accepted due to originality, I have done considerable changes that actually differentiate the original theme with this.

I have renamed this to be Riceblogger Theme so to give it a name and not to be mistake with the original.

With the new RiceBlogger Theme, we have added some new features on top of the previous version:-

• Tag Cloud – There is a Tag listing on the sidebar / Widget Tag Cloud will be accepted as well.
• Tags – Tags on post will be visible
• Gravatar – The standard theme does not have any gravatar, and it is added to the comment section.

Download: Riceblogger Theme (v1.1).

Learn more about the configuration here.

Yesterday I released an edited version of the original Kubrick theme into a 3-Colume Wordpress Theme, Riceblogger Theme, I decided to post some tutorial on how to use the various function included.It is fairly simple to edit the theme. You will need a little basic html knowledge to locate the code to edit.

I will try to provide step by step instruction here. If you still encounter some problem, kindly leave me a note here.

Installation

Like any other theme, all you need is to download the theme, unpack them and upload the whole directory. After that you activate the theme.

Remember to change the file attributes to 666 if you would like to edit your theme through your admin panel.

Change tabs title on the Riceblogger Theme

1. Edit filename tabber.php
2. Locate the tab you are interested to change either id=tab1, id=tab2, id=tab3 or id=tab4.
3. Paste the title in between <h2> </h2>

Copy a video from Youtube or other media network

1. Edit filename tabber.php
2. Locate your video tab
3. Copy and paste the whole embeded code in between <p> and </p>
4. You should see something like this

Don’t worry about the size of the video because it will edit itself to comply to the tabber size.

Change banner ads

1. Upload your banner ads to the banner folder I have provided in my theme. It will be located at [blogdirectory]/wp-content/themes/3-colume-kubrick/banner/
2. find <?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/banner/banner.gif
3. replace banner.gif with your banner filename

If you need any help, feel free to comment in this post.