Hello everybody!

I finally found some motivation and time to give my blog a design upgrade - Basically an endavour that was overdue since this blog has seen the light of the day ;)

On the technical side, this theme is a complete redevelopment. It's not finished yet, on the contrary, it's the very first version and there remain a lot of issues that need to be resolved. For instance: The majority of the CSS code is still rather dirty and of experimental nature. Additionally, I want to include an image slideshow based on unslider.js. Your template function in the your theme would then look something like the following:

if ( ! function_exists( 'clearcontent_header_slider' )):
/*
 * This function includes a minimal jquery slideshow into the header of the site. It uses unslider.js in 
 * order to achieve this objective. Link to github site: https://github.com/idiot/unslider
 */
function clearcontent_header_slider() {
    ?>

    <div class="header-slideshow">
        <ul>
            <li style="background-image: url('<?php echo get_template_directory_uri() . '/pics/slideshow/1.png' ?>');"></li>
            <li style="background-image: url('<?php echo get_template_directory_uri() . '/pics/slideshow/2.png' ?>');"></li>
            <li style="background-image: url('<?php echo get_template_directory_uri() . '/pics/slideshow/3.png' ?>');"></li>
        </ul>
    </div>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        var $j = jQuery.noConflict();

        // Use jQuery via $j(...) instead of $(..) to prevent name clashes.
        $j(document).ready(function(){
            $j('.header-slideshow').unslider({
                    arrows: true,
                    fluid: true,
                    dots: true
            });
        });
    </script>
    <?php
}
endif;

Furthermore, the theme is based on _s, a raw theme ment to be customized and extended. The big advantage are the good coding standards and a robust architecture, which really helps if you're new to wordpress theme development. The authors are partly from the automaticc team, essentially the founders of wordpress, which supports the reputation of _s further... Anyways, expect that the design of incolumitas.com slightly changes over the next weeks and months. A few key points I want to incorporate as soon as possible:

  • A static front page (Yes, using front-page.php)
  • A complete overhaul of my own captcha plugin. It's really hard to decipher them :D
  • Making the theme design responsive. This is easily said, but hard to achieve.
  • Uploading all my projects on my GitHub site. And ...
  • Finally updating GoogleScraper.py

That's it for the moment. Stay tuned! Nikolai