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dss, I should mention that I used the adaptation of Kubrick for 1.3 that was not done by Michael so there might not be a straight up conversion. The ports aren’t identical so any adaptation of yours to that port would not be identical. I am still playing around looking at all the php files in the port and in the latest build to see how it all fits together. I haven’t even tackled looking at Michael’s original. or porting my skins or trying something completely different myself.

The bare minimum, guessing a stylesheet. If you have index.php in the template file, wp- blog-header will grab that instead of the default, ditto the other listed files in wp-blog-header. Helps to read the php files too if you are clueless.

Anything you want, be it an index.php with a stylesheet and images, or the new index with associated header, footer, and sidebar. You can add a single.php template if you want a different sidebar or no sidebar for individual posts like MT does. You can make it as simple or complex as you want. Even add a custom 404 page. I suggest installing 1.3 in a test blog and play around with it so you get the theme like you want before using it on your blog.
Only options lacking is links.php and stats.php. Now those would be awesome especially since the wp-stats plugin gets the links all wrong.

Well, I did the famous 5 minute install. There is no Theme Manager plugin, it came with the 9/21 nightly. And, it’s simply a matter of customizing the files you want… index.php,single.php. All the current, as of 9/22 choices, are in the wp-blog-header.php in the template redirect section. Once you see how it is done and how the files are called, it all makes perfect sense. Then you can choose what ones you want in your site and have at it.

https://binarybonsai.com/archives/2004/09/19/kubrick-for-other-systems/#more-1249 has the Kubrick for 1.3 and follow the instructions which is to put it into wp-content/themes/kubrick/ and activate from admin under Presentation. For the Lack of Love, I substituted the images and graphics cause if you look at the header, graphics have the same name. Now if one were to create a non Kubrick inspired theme, there would be a bit more work. I have not done any extensive testing but I am sure that if I after being awake some 24 hours and a bit tired can install a theme, you can do it too. It’s really easy to upload the folder to the proper directory.

Just a quick playing with themes in 1.3 and adding Lack of Love to a test blog https://blog.mindofmog.net/ just used the Kubrick 1.3 import, changed the graphics and css.

Thanks. Sweet, I must redo my footer into sidebar and footer then play a bit. This will be fun.

I think the idea of themes is great cause it would solve the problem of wanting to vary the structure of the index page as with skins one has to keep it the same or add in a whole bunch of divs not called by the different stylesheets as is done at CSSZenGarden. And of course themes allows for adding other pages as Kubrick does. I did notice that they are only changable via the admin area which is a disadvantage if you want people to be able to skin it to their liking.
I am wondering how themes works with mod rewrite. I am using 1.3-alpha-3 9/21 nightly and my skins work with one caveat, sometimes when I go from https://www.mindofmog.net to mindofmog.net the old skin is called, persistent cookies that won’t go away.
Might try it on a test site to get the feel of it.
Don’t know what a theme is, download b2evolution and take a peek in their skins directory. Note the similarity to Kubrick, a stylesheet and whatever files you want in your theme, as few or as many as you want. Yes, you have to get into the php designing one if you want to have fun but old skins should work too.

I clicked the update permalink structure in the 9/21 nightly and forgot my I had made my .htaccess writable. The result was a site outage fixed by deleting the .htaccess. The nice people at Dreamhost renamed the file so I could see the error. The fubarred .htaccess looked like this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ /index.php?feed=_$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^comments/feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ /index.php?feed=_$1&withcomments=1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?paged=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/category/([/_0-9a-z-]+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /single.php?category_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/category/([/_0-9a-z-]+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /single.php?category_name=$1&paged=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/category/([/_0-9a-z-]+)/?$ /single.php?category_name=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/author/([_0-9a-z-]+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /single.php?author_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/author/([_0-9a-z-]+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /single.php?author_name=$1&paged=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/author/([_0-9a-z-]+)/?$ /single.php?author_name=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/([_0-9a-z-]+)/trackback/?$ /single.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4&tb=1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/([_0-9a-z-]+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /single.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4&feed=$5 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/([_0-9a-z-]+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /single.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4&paged=$5 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/([_0-9a-z-]+)/?([0-9]+)?/?$ /single.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4&page=$5 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /single.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&feed=$4 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /single.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&paged=$4 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/?$ /single.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /single.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&feed=$3 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /single.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&paged=$3 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/?$ /single.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/([0-9]{4})/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /single.php?year=$1&feed=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/([0-9]{4})/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /single.php?year=$1&paged=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/([0-9]{4})/?$ /single.php?year=$1 [QSA]# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ /index.php?feed=_$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^comments/feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ /index.php?feed=_$1&withcomments=1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?paged=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^site/([^/]+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?pagename=$1&feed=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^site/([^/]+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?pagename=$1&paged=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^site/([^/]+)/?$ /index.php?pagename=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^search/(.+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?s=$1&feed=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^search/(.+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?s=$1&paged=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^search/(.+)/?$ /index.php?s=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/category/(.+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?category_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/category/(.+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?category_name=$1&paged=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/category/(.+)/?$ /index.php?category_name=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/author/([^/]+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?author_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/author/([^/]+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?author_name=$1&paged=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/author/([^/]+)/?$ /index.php?author_name=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/([^/]+)/trackback/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4&tb=1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/([^/]+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4&feed=$5 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/([^/]+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4&paged=$5 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/([^/]+)/?([0-9]+)?/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4&page=$5 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&feed=$4 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&paged=$4 [QSA]
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RewriteRule ^archives/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/([0-9]{4})/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?year=$1&feed=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/([0-9]{4})/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?year=$1&paged=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/([0-9]{4})/?$ /index.php?year=$1 [QSA]
# END WordPress

My advice is to do it manually not through the WP interface. Oh, the first code does have separate templates and may be useful to answer the first question.

I’m still trying to figure out a way to undo the damage done by the stop comments, in my case, the auto-close comments so I can edit again.

Yes, I always do that. Now I get to keep upgrading til it’s fixed.

All my plugins are broke in the 8-26 build. Never should have upgraded.

I upgraded to the latest nightly 8/26 and now all my plugins are broken. I think I should give up this alpha testing.

Works in Mingus, doesn’t work in 1.3 alpha. Replacing it with Mingus comments.php works thou.

What I’ve learned so far, draft posts show up in LJ, posts in the future, a cool WP feature, show up in LJ as soon as they are posted, defeating the purpose of the feature. And sometimes, when editing, posts come up duplicated in LJ necessitating deletion of the dupe. And when you want to delete one, checking last 20 gets:
Error
There was an error getting the journal entries to edit:
Client error: Invalid text encoding: Cannot display this post. Please see https://www.livejournal.com/support/encodings.bml for more information.
And checking on a certain date gets the same error message. Guessing it’s a problem with text encoding, using UTF-8 for WP. Works for older, pre WordPress messages. Only way I’ve found to edit an old message in LJ is to view source of page and find message number of one want to edit, then click to edit latest message and insert number in location bar, hit enter, and, voila, get the right one. Something to work on thou if LJ uses different encoding, may be unfixable.
I can write a post with the mood, which posts to LJ, then edit out the mood icon, inserting instead one of my custom smilies with synch with LJ unchecked and get the change in WP without the change in LJ.