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Linux Loop will be participating in Blog Action Day 2009. The goal of Blog Action Day is to unite as many bloggers as possible to focus on one cause. This year’s cause is climate change and the date is October 15th. If your interested in getting involved yourself, check out the BAD website. Otherwise, just look forward to Linux Loop’s Blog Action Day post on October 15th.
Away for a week
I’m going to be away for a week, so new posts will resume at that point.
Thanks!
Introducing WPChameleon… Don’t like the color? Change it.
After the launch of the new theme, there seemed to be some disagreement regarding colors and what was the easiest color to read on. I choose the colors for this theme specifically to be easily readable, but, apparently, some people prefer to read on orange. Now you have that choice, along with a number of other options, with WPChameleon.
WPChameleon is a custom-designed WordPress plugin that allows users to choose between variations on your theme. Basically the site owner defines several CSS blocks and whichever one the user chooses is included at the top of the HTML file that is sent to the browser. You will need to enable Javascript, but you don’t need to have an account.
So scroll down to the bottom of the sidebar (on the right) and pick whichever theme suits you and your eyes!
Note: I’m hoping to release the plugin as soon as I can, but that might take a week, since I’m going to be away. If anyone would like to help test the plugin, though, I’d be happy to send you a copy. Just send me an email and include a link to the site you will be testing it on (or a local installation is fine, too) and the WordPress version you plan to use. It should work on WP >= 2.8.
Introducing The New Linux Loop
Introducing…. the new Linux Loop! As you can see, it’s rather different from what you’ve seen before. Actually, its also quite different from the preview I showed off earlier.
As I mentioned earlier, comment threading should now work and I hope that the text will be easier to read. Plus, there are a whole bunch of formatting features that I’m sure you will soon be noticing.
This isn’t a finished design, though. I still want your input on what can be improved. Particularly in the first few days, please tell me if something is broken or doesn’t look right.
If you’ve ever tried to upgrade a WP installation plus a bunch of static html to a single WP install in an existing directory, I’m sure you understand how painful it is. If you haven’t, just trust me and don’t try it yourself. 
In addition to the design changes, there will be some scheduling changes. Posts will no longer be daily. It’s been almost two years of daily posts without missing a day. It’s time now to move to a less frequent schedule. From now on, you can expect several posts each week, just not 7. This should allow time for longer and more in depth posts.
Enjoy!