A very clear interview with Matt Mullenweg about WordPress, GPL, and licencing issues (and solutions) for themes and plug-ins.

(Original at higher resolution here)

My most appreciated WordPress theme, StupidGenius, has been updated just now (again). By default, in single posts and pages you have no sidebar. Most users like that, because of its clean look and good readability of post’s content. Some of them prefer the sidebar to be always displayed, instead.

With this update you can simply delete single.php and/or page.php files from the theme’s folder to have your sidebar back in place.

An update to all my WordPress themes is available now from WordPress Free Themes Directory (and from their pages on this website).

The fix corrects an issue with center-aligned images (ther was a conflict between an old margin default for images and the – well, not so – recently added style for object alignement). That’s it.

New versions are:

• ImStillRunningDave: 1.5.1
• UnspeakableDogness: 1.6.1
• StupidGenius: 3.3.4

Best advertising for a web developer is a nice customer’s website. Moreover, real websites are inspiring for users too because even if the design is the same for all, building up a website from scratch is a truly creative process and everyone has his own taste and prefers his own way of doing things.

For my WordPress themes I chose really weird names; it was unintentional: I discovered just later that it was ridiculously easy to google them and see what users have done with my themes (there are thousands of them out there). If you do the same, you can see what I mean: some sites stick to the original designs, some are totally changed with really intrepid (!) colors, some are definitely better than the original.

Sandvox and Rapidweaver are less configurable, but you still can choose header, colors, images, you still have to give a balance to your content, your pictures, your pages. As a developer, when I see a nice balance between all these things I feel quite satisfied.

Starting from now I will link to best Rabbit’s sites around and the first is indeed PC Coach Ltd. by Bernd Kühn. I have to thank Bernd for his suggestions and feedback and because he is a kind of beta tester too: his website sports an unreleased (yet) version of Carbone for WordPress, perfectly integrated with his Sandvox website (I plan to release Carbone for WordPress later this year, but it will require some skills since WordPress is definitely not easy to use as Sandvox).

Anyway, if you’re looking for inspiration remember that many Sandvox websites are listed here. Did you send yours?

All our three WordPress themes have been updated and are now available for download from the WordPress Themes Directory. Here are the most relevant changes:

• Support for galleries (only StupidGenius)
• Support for “paginated” pages
• Explorer 6 bug fix for “pre” blocks wider than post width
• Description tags modified to comply with new WordPress Themes guidelines
• Author and theme URLs now link to http://www.behindtherabbit.com/

To download them you can start here:

• UnspeakableDogness (new version is 1.5)
• ImStillRunningDave (new version is 1.6)
• StupidGenius (new version is 3.3.3)