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Subtle 0.42 for WordPress 2.5


The WordPress folks changed the way get_page_children works, breaking quite a few themes that used the function. This affected sites that use the “Show sub-pages when viewing a page” option. The Return True site posted a fix that seems to work fine, though I’d love to hear from people if there are any problems. […]

WordPress 2.5


Nina’s comment that WordPress 2.5 worked was enough for me to throw caution to the wind and just install it on the GI site without testing. Bad form, I know, but sometimes you just want to see what all of the fuss is about. Well, Subtle and WP 2.5 seem to work just […]

Subtle 0.41 - Tags and Fixes


With a lot of help from Nina over at Lazy Geisha, Subtle 0.41 comes to you with a bunch of bug fixes and added support for tags. Personally, the tag / category distinction is a little funny, but I understand why they added it. That said, marking themes that don’t support tags as […]

Subtle 0.4 - Working with Widgets


So here’s how the conversation more or less went down with John…
John: Dude, the site has a PR7! What the heck?
Chris: Really? No way. Wow… it does. Too bad it got hacked. I had to pull the thing down.
John: You’ve GOT to get something up there.
Chris: Ya… you’re probably right.
So […]

Glued Theme Available


So it only took months for me to remove five lines of code to make the theme style generic, but I finally am making available the Glued theme style for anyone interested in having a site that looks pretty much exactly like this one. The theme style doesn’t support header image import or anything […]

Wordpress 2.2 Widgets: K2 to the Rescue!


Blogan, on the K2 forums, has posted a great plugin that disables Wordpress 2.2’s built-in widget support so that you can use your favorite widget plugin, such as Sidebar Modules. This is a great temporary solution to the current issue with Subtle not showing widgets correctly on WP 2.2 and is even better for […]