WordPress and Kubrick post install
WordPress: With version 1.5, this blogging software rocks! One of the leanest systems, highly customizable, intelligent and slick interface and bang-on the malice of the world wide web (read: comment and trackback spam). This version brings back the pleasure to blog.
WordPress wiki, Codex has a wealth of information and is much more than a standard manual and it’s searchable! I was once one of those who initially thought that documentation should come along with the software. But with the wiki, I beg to differ.
Latest and useful info and active commentary on the happenings and availability of plugins from WordPress Planet gets updated on the Dashboard of WordPress console. This is so much useful to have. Dashboard uses a built-in feed renderer to load the latest info about WordPress. How cool can your Dashboard console become?
WordPress is also a designer’s delight in its ability to render posts dynamically without rebuilds, which are very frustrating, not to mention the time consumed if you have large number of posts. Did you know that WordPress can auto-correct your markup to compliant XHTML and convert the two dashes into an emdash and three dashes into endash? How wonderful is that? I hope to see more and more web-designers adopt WordPress in their projects following this version release.
Kubrick: If you thought, WordPress is only beautiful on the inside, think again. Michael Heieleman’s theme Kubrick is now the default theme for WordPress. When Kubrick was hotly discussed in the forums because it was a highly hacked version and that many could not agree to making it the default theme, the WordPress team channelled their energy into making WordPress a completely themed version so that users could toggle any theme instantly of their choice. Gone are the days of uploading, changing files to change a layout. It’s a button push now with 1.5. Wow!
Kubrick is not only beautiful, it’s intelligent. Whenever you add new pages, they magically appear in the sidebar. If you modify the stylesheet, it no longer shows the original designer’s name in the footer below. The comment system has an alternate color running, search summaries and other nice features by default. Michael has put in some nifty code that you’ll be pleasantly surprised. Every bit of this theme is tastefully and thoughtfully done. Even if you don’t fancy Kubrick, you could use it’s intelligent markup for developing your own style.
It’s no wonder that Kubrick has been ported to so many blog templates. Now, with Owen Winkler’s Kubrickr, the head-piece designer, everyone can now have a variety of wonderful headers without ever touching their Photoshops or Irfanviews. A well deserved shot, not just in the arm, but right up in the head that makes Kubrick users delightfully dizzy =).
All credits to the developers of WordPress. You are a bunch of absolutely devoted geeks and you seriously rock.
Are WordPressers the only ones having all the fun these days or what?
yea, we are a cool and a happy lot.
Feb 22, 05 at 10:14Nice Chetan, Great great Nicely great
Feb 22, 05 at 13:15Nice review…
Will upgrade to 1.5 as well
Feb 22, 05 at 14:42Another great review Chetan, can’t agree more about Wordpress. I never fail to amaze myself that Wordpress is really free.
Feb 22, 05 at 17:04Thanks guys
If I had known that Matt would link my post, I’d have tried a better job at it 
Seriously, WordPress is now ready for mass consumption as a CMS following “Posts” feature.
Feb 22, 05 at 18:26Any idea how to get nested categories in the sidebar indent properly like it used to in earlier WP? My sleep starved brain is not able to figure it out.
Feb 23, 05 at 10:18Suman: I haven’t dug it up myself. Could be the styling or the option in list_cats() or both. Mine aren’t nesting as well.
Feb 23, 05 at 11:24