The feature page is back up, and Devlounge 2 (the WordPress theme) will be available either tomorrow or the following day. I’ve been weeding through various errors today, and I have noticed one thing. It seems some posts and pages have been effected by the database restoration we underwent a few weeks back. It has caused the page design to break, when it shouldn’t have. I’ve spotted many of these and fixed them by reposting the article and / or page (only way to fix it is to delete the old so it’s out of the database). Of course, it is impossible to look through every single post and page, so if you notice any problems, please just let me know. I’m pretty sure I’ve got most of them, but you never know when something will slip through the cracks. That takes care of today’s updates. Tomorrow new feed options will be introduced, and hopefully I’ll be able to stop with these updates, because I’m sure it’s annoyed some most of you. 😉
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Prebuilt
Prebuilt is a wordpress theme focusing on helping you learn wordpress, rather than spilling a whole bunch of files in your face and saying “good luck”. Prebuilt contains commented code so you can figure out just exactly what you’re doing without much hassle.
Introduction
Prebuilt was created not to be heavily graphical and feature a lot of ajax goodness, but to be effective while at the same time, an easy way of learning WordPress. Working in harmony with our series on WordPress Customization, Prebuilt can become your new favorite theme.
Features of Prebuilt 2
The latest version of prebuilt, pb2, features the same features 2,000+ users loved, plus a few extras that have been requested since launch.
- Clean Commented Code – Know exactly what you’re doing, because we’re cleaned the code up and organized everything.
- Flick Integration – Using the Flickrss plugin (included), pull your most recent flickr photos from yourself, a group, or a pool.
- Pure Code And Css – An extremely lightweight design.
- NEW! Multiple Stylesheets – Now use the Prebuilt Customize panel to select between multiple stylesheets. Included are default (red), blue, and web 2.0 (whites).
- New! Now supporting widgets! (included in download)
Screenshots & Preview
Installation
- Extract the prebuilt zip to a folder somewhere on your desktop.
- Upload entire prebuilt folder as is to …”wp-content/themes/”, leaving
the structure as is. - To make things easier, change permissions on header, footer, index, and
style to 666 or higher.
If you’re upgrading, simple backup your prebuilt 1 installation and overwrite version two to the same folder, or create a new folder and upload the theme there.
Download
Prebuilt is available in a small zip. Once downloaded, follow the instructions above to install the theme. Also, it is very important that you read the read me, it contains additional installation information as well as links to resources to help you with your new theme.
Download Prebuilt 2 [Latest July 2006] (zip)
Download Prebuilt 1 (zip)
Discussion
The Prebuilt announcement thread is the place to send pingbacks and leave your feedback on the Prebuilt theme. Feedback is important to us, so please, let us know what you think.
Support
Need help with prebuilt? Head over to our flickr group to ask questions. We’ll try to help you out the best we can. Also, if you feel like sharing your customized version of prebuilt, check out our flickr group and give a screenshot a post to our group pool! If you enjoy the theme, please digg it, as it makes me feel good inside and will help my motivations towards future development :).
The Future of Prebuilt
The next version of prebuilt will be a complete overhaul, changing everything up and giving you one of the best themes you’ve ever seen for wordpress. Stay tuned this fall!
A Reader’s Toolbox
Setting up a distance learning site is very simple. with the help of courses like 70-553 one can launch it within days. And with the help of cheap hosting, it becomes economical too. The search engines can used to locate a cheap domain web hosting company. This will probably be easier and faster with a broadband connection. The success of the site lies in the search engine optimization, which is long process.
Bug Hunting
There is just a few things here and there to still be done and fixed. The only major issue I’m aware of right now is with Ronald’s WordPress series, which, as a result of the in-series plugin, seems to be messing with the page layout, leading to ugly looking posts. We’ll be getting in fixed by tomorrow, don’t you worry about it. 🙂
Edit: The problem has now been fixed. I had to go back and repost some old posts that must of been published when were having database problems, because there was some kind of code injected into certain “How to” WordPress posts that, even when cleared, was not being deleted. All the posts were replaced and given their original post publish dates, but comments were lost on these posts. Also, because I had to repost some of these posts, it messed up the order of the In Series plugin. Therefore, the “How to Write a WordPress Plugin” series now has its own page with the correct chronological order for the posts in this series.
Restoration
We just had our WordPress database from yesterday (roughly 24 hours ago) restored, so if you commented in the last day, chances are we lost it, so, unfortunately you’ll have to do it again. The good news is everything seems to be loading smoothly again, so keeping our fingers crossed, the load time issue is resolved.
Trouble – Shoot!
While work continues on the new design, I am working with our host to root out the incredible slowness that has taken over Devlounge of late. It seems since our upgrade to WordPress 2.2, the site has been taking ages to load. We hope to have this all figured out by this weekend. We appreciate your patience.
