the almighty helmet

Today, I updated my WordPress installation to version 2.5.1 and I gotta say: It was a breeze!

At first, not all plugins worked the way they were supposed to but with a little tweaking and twitching everything is back to normal. Especially my painfully customized frontpage needed some extra convincing. That’s the price you have to pay when you want something different from all the typical blogger themes.

I also implemented the now integrated Gravatar support into the code and CSS.

Switching from UTW (Ultimate Tagging Warrior) to Amaury Balmer’s Simple Tags wasn’t so easy, though. First, make sure you download Simple Tags and not its predecessor Simple Tagging or it will not recognize the .htaccess rules and wont submit any queries to the WordPress system. If you are using the k2 theme, take a good

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Out of boredom and maybe pedantry I created a replacement frame for the Gallery2 module Imageframe. It looks almost perfect. One downer, though, is a little shadow irregularity within the frame images no one is probably ever gonna notice.
UPDATE: It's 3:13h in the morning now and eight hours ago I was wanting to get pizza. Well, I am still hungry but those glitches are gone.

The frame theme comes in two sizes. I'd recommend the smaller version for use with the WPG2 Sidebar or Sidebar Block. In Gallery2 I use the larger version as my Photo Frame and the smaller for Item and Album Frame. Since I use the WordPress plugin WPG2 I paid extra attention to the compatibility with WordPress.

Download the real_polaroids.