Abdussamad's blogspace - Serendipity

Ornate serendipity template

nospam@example.com (Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq) — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:10:09 -0700

Ornate is an open source template by freecsstemplates.org that I recently ported to serendipity . Its got a nicely decorated left sidebar. Red and white are the primary colours of this theme. ...

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Nightwatch serendipity theme

nospam@example.com (Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq) — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:48:00 -0800

I am releasing the Nightwatch serendipity theme for free. I call it that because the theme looks good if you set a night time cityscape as the header image. You can see a preview of it below: Click to see a larger version ...

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Smarty in your s9y sidebar

nospam@example.com (Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq) — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:14:08 -0700

I recently discovered the "markup: smarty" event plugin in spartacus ! It allows you to add smarty tags in your entries and sidebar html nuggets. I installed it and am using smarty tags within an HTML nugget sidebar plugin to selectively...

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Header image selection via media manager in Serendipity themes

nospam@example.com (Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq) — Mon, 14 May 2007 21:23:00 -0700

This article shows you how to implement header image selection via the media manager in your serendipity templates configuration. I first introduced this feature in the beautiful day theme and it proved to be quite popular. ...

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Serendipity theme updates

nospam@example.com (Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq) — Fri, 11 May 2007 18:40:00 -0700

I have updated two of my serendipity blog system templates. The following updates were made: Freshy: The ever popular freshy theme now has the additional option of custom header image selection via the serendipity media manager a la beautiful...

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How to install a serendipity template

nospam@example.com (Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq) — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:00:00 -0700

A guide to manually installing templates for the serendipity weblog system

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Beautiful Day serendipity version

nospam@example.com (Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq) — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 13:26:00 -0700

The release of the two color "Beautiful Day" theme for the serendipity weblog system.

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22,000 spam messages blocked!

nospam@example.com (Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq) — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 07:05:00 -0700

Yesterday I was looking through my website's cpanel when I noticed that my mySQL database was taking 40+ MB of space. This was way too much for a my little old blog so I fired up phpmyadmin to take a closer look. It turned out that the serendipity...

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Yes WWW! No WWW!

nospam@example.com (Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq) — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:28:00 -0700

Most websites on the Internet can be accessed using both just their domain name and the www subdomain and domain name. For ex: www.example.com and example.com may lead to the same website. Some search engines consider the www version and the non-www...

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How to summarise posts in serendipity rss feeds (part 2)

nospam@example.com (Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq) — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:50:00 -0700

I build upon the first part of my guide to show you how to specify custom summaries/teaser text on a per-post basis for your s9y blog feeds.

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How to summarise posts in serendipity rss feeds

nospam@example.com (Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq) — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 16:42:00 -0800

By default serendipity places the entire entry body in your rss feeds but not the extended body. If you're like me you rarely use the extended body when making entries so your feed subscribers can read your entire posts without having to visit your...

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Sahara Template port for serendipity

nospam@example.com (Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq) — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:09:29 -0800

Click to view full sized screenshot I am releasing a serendipity port of the Sahara template by freecsstemplates.org . This template includes very few images making this a fast loading theme. The designer has made clever use of small...

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Refreshing freshy theme serendipity port

nospam@example.com (Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq) — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:06:00 -0800

Click to enlarge In preparation for the next Google dance I have gone and ported Julien De Luca's freshy wordpress theme to serendipity. Freshy is one of the most popular themes for wordpress and it includes a whole host of options for...

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Essential serendipity plugins

nospam@example.com (Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq) — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 22:53:00 -0800

I have 3 serendipity powered weblogs now and on each one I install certain key plugins that help me promote my site and add useful functionality to it. First up is spartacus. Spartacus is an event plugin that gives me access to serendipity's...

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Theme license changes

nospam@example.com (Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq) — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 05:58:32 -0700

Or more correctly the inclusion of a license. Until today I hadn't included a license in my themes but I decided it was time to do so now. All my themes have a specific license. This license is not pure open source but it does allow free use and...

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