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Mu in {minim} Flavour

livingos — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:02:55 +0000

This time it is a more minimal feel with the new {minim} flavour of Mu.

Click on any image to view this preview site in this flavour/background combination.

{minim} – bg#1

{minim} – bg#2

{minim} – bg#3

{minim} – bg#4

{minim} – bg#5

You can view this preview site in this flavour.

Tips: Use the more tag

livingos — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:43:56 +0000

Effective use of the More tag is essential when writing posts, if your front page is to look its best. Notice how each post on the home page of this site is just a line or so followed by a link to the main post.

To make this happen you need to make good use of the More tag. You insert the More tag by hitting in the Post Editor.

You see, how your home page looks isn’t just down to the theme, it is also often adversley effected by how you write your posts.

Mu in {smooth} Flavour

livingos — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:00:03 +0000

For those who like things a little smoother and funkier, Mu {smooth} comes with five great backgrounds to complement the darker style.

Click on any image to view this preview site in this flavour/background combination.

{smooth} – metal

{smooth} – swirls

{smooth} – tree

{smooth} – black

{smooth} – rainbow

You can view this preview site in this flavour.

About the Menu Bars

livingos — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:18:38 +0000

There are two navigation menus in Mu. The top most bar displays pages in non-hierarchical fashion, with sub menus appearing in the sidebar when needed. And it is worth noting that those sub menus are pretty clever – they show siblings! If you don’t know what that means, don’t worry. The second navigation bar is a drop down menu and by default shows post categories.

Menu Options

Everybody seems to be looking for drop down menus. The Alpha theme was one of the first WordPress themes to do this, and this is the first theme I have made since the beginning of the Greek alphabet that includes them again. But we’ve turned up the heat a bit this time thanks to the cool superfish and jquery.

Menu Options

The theme optiom page allows you to change the way menus work and even disable them. You can…

Choose either pages or categories as your drop down menu
Disable the top menu (useful if you want a drop down page menu)
Exclude categories and pages from the menus. – This is quite important as you will be using some categories to pipe content to the right sections in your site and usually won’t want them appearing in regular menus.

So after all those e-mails from people trying to shoe-horn the code from the Alpha theme into Upsilon – I finally got round to it.

post image by leunix on flickr

Mu in {Urban} Flavour

livingos — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:51:55 +0000

This is the first flavour of Mu made available for public consumption. There are others on the way, but even this flavour has 5 different looks meant to wow your readers.

If you purchase Mu {urban} you will have access to five urbanish looks for Mu. Simply by changing the background in the theme option panel, you end up with the looks below.

Click on any image to view this preview site in this flavour/background combination.

{Urban} : Church

{Urban} : Plain

{Urban} : Wood

{Urban} : Lighter

{Urban} : Clear

And don’t forget that you are currently looking at Mu. Can you spot which which flavour we have up today?

View this site in the{urban} flavour now.

Post image by st0rmz of flickr

More Randomness

livingos — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:24:24 +0000

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Thumbnails Everywhere

livingos — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:19:17 +0000

This theme is full of nifty little thumbnails that are created on the fly. The theme by default uses the timthumb script by will use my very own thumbpress if installed. The advantage of thumbpress, which is just way of accessing phpTumb, is that images can be sourced from beyond your own domain and has … read on →

Threaded Comments

livingos — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:02:24 +0000

Oh yes that’s right. WordPress 2.7 arrived and gave us threaded comments and this theme supports them.So now not only can readers of your blog respond to your content, but they can respond directly to an individual reader’s comments.
Something like you see below…

Come to the Waters

livingos — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:15:26 +0000

So , maybe you would publish some sermons, video or audio in this way. there are plenty of plugins that can help you do this. Many integrate WordPress with the many hosted media sites like YouTube and my favourite, Vimeo.

A meditation on the words found in Isaiah 55:1-2.

A litle cartoon

livingos — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:04:46 +0000

This post also shows that you can turn off the post image header for individual posts when needed, like here.
In this case the header migh distract from the main image inside the post content or be a repetition. Originally published on livingos.