Chair for two

An interesting petrol station

How to break the pacifier habit

This helmet is very safe =]

No garden in your city?

Made using papers

Unfriendly neighbour

Too many drinks to choose from

Playing with towels in the hotel room

A sexy bag

Another way to play with Rubiks cube

Keyboard bag

Plug in to suicide!

All credits to the author/creator.

A bottle that looks like it is coming out the side of the trailer

A canvas tote bag

Pepsi cases and they are all stacked on the ceiling, and the bottom of the trailer is empty

A truck with the windshield facing the back, and there is a driver painted in the driver seat looking back over his shoulder to appear like he is driving backwards (this is the coolest )

An aquarium

A bookshelf with books lined up in it, and a post it note with an advertisement

Pringles Hot & Spicy. The side of the trailer has the appearance of having been through a fire that has ravaged the truck’s interior.

Stripe Square is a free wordpress magazine theme with premium features such as animated gallery, post thumbnail, featured video, latest tweets, social bookmark, popular posts and more. View the list of features below.

Type : Semi Magazine (uses excerpt at blog index)
Functionality : Blog

Features

• Blue-green and white as main colours
• 1 more colour scheme available for choosing (blue)
• Fixed width, widget-ready and gravatar-ready
• Tested on FireFox, IE6, IE8, Opera, Safari.
• Tested and working properly up to Wordpress 2.9.2
• Beautify your blog using Post Thumbnail and Post Image
• Featured Posts displayed using animated slideshow
• Tabbed Menu with 3 tabs at sidebar
• About Us Menu at sidebar
• Featured Video at sidebar
• Ready for Google Analytics, Adsense and Webmaster Tools
• Twitter Integration, display latest tweets at sidebar
• Feedburner Integration (including showing off your feedcount)
• Built-in plugins such as page navigation and related posts.
• Built-in social bookmark buttons to let your reader share your post easily
• Auto determine and display popular posts at footer
• Four ads spots in sidebar
• Commented CSS files for easy editing
• Custom Theme Options at Admin Panel

Demo

Preview Stripe Square (5104)

Download

Stripe Square Wordpress Theme 1.0
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Recommendations for User

Manual Excerpt

To make your blog looks better, you need to include a manual excerpt for every post (like my blog). You can add that while editing or adding new post. You can, however, leave your excerpt empty and wordpress will automatically make an excerpt for you, but all HTML tags would be auto removed.

Post Image & Thumbnails

Post Thumbnail is a square image of size 125 x 125 pixels, shown at blog index, related posts and search.
Post Image is an image of size 550 x 190 pixels, shown at single post page, below the post title.
To beautify your blog, try to include post thumbnails for every post (if possible).

Featured Category

In most cases, not all your featured posts are in the same category. You can create a new category (let’s say I called it : Featured) and choose it as the “Featured Category” at the theme option page.
Step-by-step guide to activate Featured Gallery

WP-PageNavi Plugin Conflict

Some users reported that WP-PageNavi plugin causes the sidebar and footer to be missing. If you have WP-PageNavi plugin installed, you should deactivate the plugin.

ChangeLog

Version 1.0
- First version

Theme Support / Edit / Add Features

If you have problem when using the themes, support is available at no cost at the support forum (not at this page anymore). If you need some tweaking or want to add features, please contact me. *Depending on the matter, you might need to buy me a cup of coffee or 3.

Like this theme? Donate via Paypal

I spent a lot of time making themes and plugins. If you like this theme and would like to support my works, you can donate via PayPal using the button below.

Thank you.

1. Adding codes to The Loop

First of all, if you do not know what is The Loop, please refer to this page.

Open up index.php, look for:

<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

or, your theme may be using this instead of that above:

<?php the_content(); ?>

Add these codes just before the “the_excerpt” or “the_content” line :

<?php if (function_exists('has_post_thumbnail')) {
 if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) { ?>
	<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail( array( 150, 150 ), array( 'class' => 'alignleft') ); ?></a>
<?php } } ?>

Explaination:

• The first line check whether “has_post_thumbnail” function exists before running the code, so that it wouldn’t causes fatal error in older wordpress version.
• has_post_thumbnail is the function that determine whether your post has post thumbnail
• the_post_thumbnail is the function that output the post thumbnail <img> tag

.

2. Using the_post_thumbnail()

According to the wordpress codex, the function’s usage is:

<?php the_post_thumbnail( $size, $attr ); ?>

It can accept 2 arguments. The first argument is the thumbnail size and the second argument is the image’s attributes.

Based on the example in part 1
I used to specify the thumbnail size in array form, like in the above example (a square thumbnail of 150 pixels).

For the second argument, I added .alignleft class to the thumbnail so that it floats left. You can add more attributes like this too:

the_post_thumbnail( array( 150, 150 ), array( 'class' => 'alignleft' , style' => 'border:1px solid red ; margin-right:5px ;' ) );

3. Make your theme support post thumbnail

Open functions.php, scroll to the most bottom and add this before ?> (the closing php tag) :

if ( function_exists( 'add_theme_support' ) ) {
add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );
}

Visit your admin panel and edit/create a post, you will then notice a new box called “Post Thumbnail” appear at the bottom right corner. You can add thumbnail there.

4. I need rectangle thumbnail

When you upload a thumbnail, wordpress generates only square thumbnails. What if you need rectangle thumbnail in your theme?

In your functions.php, look for:

add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );

After that, add this in the next line:

set_post_thumbnail_size( 300, 100, true );

The first argument is width, second is height and the third is crop_flag (if true, wordpress will crop it upon creating the thumbnail, instead of resizing)

From now on, wordpress will generate an additional rectangle thumbnail of size 300 x 100 pixels everytime you upload image.

Okay, you might ask, what about my old uploaded images? I want each of them to have a rectangle thumbnail too. Fortunately, there is a plugin called “Regenerate Thumbnails” which can do the job for you automatically.

Hope this helps

Delighted Black is a free greyscale wordpress theme with premium features such as animated gallery, post thumbnail, featured video, flickr photos, latest tweets, social bookmark, popular posts and more. View the list of features below.

Type : Semi Magazine (uses excerpt at blog index)
Functionality : Blog

Features

• Black and white as main colours
• Fixed width, widget-ready and gravatar-ready
• Tested on FireFox, IE6, Opera, Safari.
• Tested and working properly up to Wordpress 2.9.1
• Beautify your blog using Post Thumbnail and Post Image
• Featured Posts displayed using animated slideshow
• Tabbed Menu with 3 tabs at sidebar
• About Us Menu at sidebar
• Featured Video at sidebar
• Ready for Google Analytics, Adsense and Webmaster Tools
• Twitter Integration, display latest tweets at footer
• Flickr Integration, share photos easily (needs flickrRSS plugin)
• Feedburner Integration (including showing off your feedcount)
• Built-in plugins such as page navigation and related posts.
• Built-in social bookmark buttons to let your reader share your post easily
• Auto determine and display popular posts at footer
• Four ads spots in sidebar
• Commented CSS files for easy editing
• Custom Theme Options at Admin Panel

Demo

Preview Delighted Black (2921)

Download

Delighted Black Wordpress Theme 1.0
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Recommendations for User

Manual Excerpt

To make your blog looks better, you need to include a manual excerpt for every post (like my blog). You can add that while editing or adding new post. You can, however, leave your excerpt empty and wordpress will automatically make an excerpt for you, but all HTML tags would be auto removed.

Post Image & Thumbnails

Post Thumbnail is a square image of size 125 x 125 pixels, shown at blog index, related posts and search.
Post Image is an image of size 550 x 190 pixels, shown at single post page, below the post title.
To beautify your blog, try to include post thumbnails for every post (if possible).

Featured Category

In most cases, not all your featured posts are in the same category. You can create a new category (let’s say I called it : Featured) and choose it as the “Featured Category” at the theme option page.
Step-by-step guide to activate Featured Gallery

WP-PageNavi Plugin Conflict

Some users reported that WP-PageNavi plugin causes the sidebar and footer to be missing. If you have WP-PageNavi plugin installed, you should deactivate the plugin.

ChangeLog

Version 1.0
- First version

Notes

1. You need to install flickrRSS plugin to show your flickr photos at footer.

Theme Support / Edit / Add Features

If you have problem when using the themes, support is available at no cost at the support forum (not at this page anymore). If you need some tweaking or want to add features, please contact me. *Depending on the matter, you might need to buy me a cup of coffee or 3.

Like this theme? Donate via Paypal

I spent a lot of time making themes and plugins. If you like this theme and would like to support my works, you can donate via PayPal using the button below.

Thank you.

Apple Curved Screen

Weirdest Computer From Samsung

Table Computer

Mobile Phone / Computer with Expandable Screen

Touch Screen Phone

New Mouse Design

Bendable Screen from Sony

Side Lamp Computer

New Bathtub

Clothes that saves energy during day and glow during night

Future Kitchen

Electronic Paper for Easy Correction

Foldable Office

New MP3 player

Foldable TV Screen

Computer with 3 screens

New bulding from Korea

Nikon Camera Cake

Medical Book Cake

Scorpion Cake

Bridge Cake

Cognac Cake

Money Machine Cake

Laptop Cake

Roulette Cake

Indian map Cake

Mac Mini Cake

Money Cake

Eiffel Tower Cake

Construction Cake

Heineken Cake

And lastly, Tire Cake

All credits to the author/creator!

11. Pearl dissolves in vinegar

12. 35% of the people searching for lovers through advertisement, were married.

13. Cow can walk up the stairs but it can never walk down the stairs

14. Pigs can never look up in the the sky

15. “Quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” used up all 26 alphabets

16. A snail can sleep for 3 years without food

17. The famous artist Tommy Lee Jones was once the roomate of the U.S. Vice-President at the Harvard University

18. 1,111,111 x 1,111,111 = 1234567654321

19. Some stone will explode if you heat it in a microwave oven

20. The only word with 15 non-repeating alphabets is “uncopyrightable”

All credits to the author/creator.

Recently I have updated all my free wordpress themes to be 100% xhtml valid. After validating each of them, I found that there were some common errors, which can be solved by:

1. Adding alternate text to <img> tags

This is also known for improving your site’s SEO. Whenever you use <img> tags you have to add an alternate text. If you do not have alernate text to add, at least leave it empty like this alt=""

Invalid

<img src="" />

Valid

<img src="" alt="" />

2. Closing self-closing tags

Tags like <img> , <br> , <meta> need to be self-closed.

• <img> -> <img />
• <br> -> <br />
• <meta> -> <meta />

Some other self-closing tags are:

• <area />
• <base />
• <basefont />
• <hr />
• <input />
• <link />

3. Do not use uppercase in tags

One example, the meta verification tag given by Yahoo! Site Explorer (Yahoo webmaster tool) is always in uppercase and not self-closed, which make my page invalid.

You have to manually change the word “meta” to lowercase and self-close the meta tag.

Given by Yahoo! – invalid

<META name="y_key" content="xxxx" >

Edited to make it valid

<meta name="y_key" content="xxxx" />

4. Validating inline javascript

If you have javascript codes in your page, you have to make it valid as follow:

Invalid

I will output "Hello world!" using javascript.<br />
 
<script type="text/javascript">
document.write('Hello world!');
</script>

Valid

I will output "Hello world!" using javascript.<br />
 
<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
document.write('Hello world!');
//]]>
</script>

By adding cdata tag, you can make your inline javascript codes to be valid. If your javascript loaded from external js file, it will not make your page invalid so you do not have to worry about that.

5. Validating video/embed codes such as youtube video

By default, the embed codes given by youtube are not xhtml valid.

To make it valid, you can refer to the guide I wrote on last month.