I set up a site for testing my theme on a fresh installation of Wordpress. This immediately brought very interesting results, as I always tested my theme on my blog which had customization/plugins I could not remember.
Nevertheless, I’m going to use this test site for validating the theme against W3C’s HTML and CSS validators.
The site is up on http://test.bd-things.net/
As I promised more than 2 months ago, I’ve just released the sourcecode of the wordpress theme on my blog. BD-theme 0.8 is a set of experiments that will bring me to the final release, I cannot promise that it will work perfectly on every browser, but it will almost do the job. Meanwhile, I’m working since 7 days to the next release, 0.9, that should bring to the blog a final layout.
UPDATE 2008-08-22: The theme you’re actually seeing in the blog is what will become BD-theme 0.9. I’m testing it.
As you see, the blog has a brand new theme! the blog’s theme has got a new, fresh look! I decided to bring some new improvements and a change in the layout. Let me experiment with it, fix some bugs and then I will release the source code, as always
BD-theme is a widget ready, two columns Wordpress style, written using the default Wordpress theme as php/xhtml base. The theme is inspired by TorrentFreak rounded layout, and some little ideas are inspired by Curved Theme, which was the old BD-blog theme.
I just wanted to write my own Wordpress theme.
This is my first theme, and my first try to design something nice. Source code is available below.
If you like BD-blog theme, then download BD-theme =)
Warning! The template is still not valid XHTML! I’ll correct it before release 1.0!
BD-theme 0.9 Screenshot
What will be next:
BD-theme 0.8, the Experiment
BD-theme 0.2 - Classic
As you maybe already know, my permalink structure of the blog was of type http://bd-things.net/year/month/day/title-of-the-article/
I’ve just updated the permalink structure to this new one: http://bd-things.net/title-of-the-article/
This is nothing difficult, you can set it in Wordpress control panel (Options->Permalinks)
The problem was that, if I just updated the settings in WP control panel, all the links which pointed to my articles, written in forums, mailing lists, etc, would have been broken. I needed a mod_rewrite rule. And I’m a noob about mod_rewriting.
After some googling, I found this awesome mod_rewrite Cheat Sheet which brought me to the solution (after about 30 x /etc/init.d/apache2 reload 
):
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^200[0-9]/[0-1][0-9]/[0-3][0-9]/(.*)/$ $1/ [R,NC,L]
RewriteRule ^200[0-9]/[0-1][0-9]/[0-3][0-9]/(.*)$ $1/ [R,NC,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
You just need to add two new lines in your mod_rewrite rules, as you see:
RewriteRule ^200[0-9]/[0-1][0-9]/[0-3][0-9]/(.*)/$ $1/ [R,NC,L]
RewriteRule ^200[0-9]/[0-1][0-9]/[0-3][0-9]/(.*)$ $1/ [R,NC,L]
The line basically means:
take the urls which starts with a year (200x) / continue with a month / continue again with a day / contain some text / (with or without the final slash / )
re_write the url just like this: /contain some text/
Yeap, it works! You can try it!
This is my famous article about thermal problems of Amd Turion X2 cpus and Linux (this is the link that Google knows) http://bd-things.net/2006/12/02/hp-nx6325-and-friends-thermal-problems-solved/
The link will be redirected to http://bd-things.net/hp-nx6325-and-friends-thermal-problems-solved/.
Cool, isn’t that? In this way, you can change your permalinks structure without loosing your google rank 
In questa pagina sono raccolti i lavori che sto svolgendo, con esempi, descrizioni e collegamenti.
Collegamenti rapidi:
CMS Hotello
CMS Jumapili
Altri Lavori
Lavori svolti per Bizetaweb e in collaborazione con Level:
Hotello é un CMS (Content Management System) multilingua sviluppato in php5 con supporto a MySQL tramite mysqli. É interamente modulare, e molto performante.
É stato sviluppato per rendere migliore la collaborazione tra programmatori, grafici, traduttori e proprietari di alberghi; comprende un comodo sistema di installazione, e le sue funzioni vengono chiamate tramite degli “include” nelle pagine sviluppate dai grafici.
Esempio: se in una pagina si vogliono inserire le offerte dell’albergo, é sufficiente che i grafici preparino la pagina come loro desiderano, stili compresi, e nel punto esatto dove si vogliono inserire le offerte, basta includere la pagina di Hotello che serve a stampare a schermo le offerte.
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Jumapili é un CMS (Content Management System) multilingua sviluppato in php5 con supporto a MySQL tramite mysqli. É interamente modulare, e molto performante.
Come Hotello, é stato sviluppato per rendere migliore la collaborazione tra programmatori, grafici, traduttori e aziende; comprende un comodo sistema di installazione, e le sue funzioni vengono chiamate tramite degli “include” nelle pagine sviluppate dai grafici.
Esempio: se in una pagina si vogliono inserire le news dell’azienda, é sufficiente che i grafici preparino la pagina come loro desiderano, stili compresi, e nel punto esatto dove si vogliono inserire le news, basta includere la pagina di Hotello che serve a stampare a schermo le news.
Elettronica Diesel, un semplice sito realizzato per presentare un’officina di Bolzano, specializzata in impianti Diesel / Common Rail
BD-Blog Theme, il tema del blog che state visitando
