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:
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Header image selection via media manager in Serendipity themes
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.
Serendipity theme updates
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 day.
RoundedCorner: I have updated rounded corner to make it easy for users to add, remove and modify links in the top navigation bar via the admin suite.
How to install a serendipity template
This article is a bit overdue. The days when my serendipity templates
could be installed easily via spartacus are long gone. These days users
have to manually install the themes. So this guide will show you how to
install one of the many templates on this site. The steps are as
follows:
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Beautiful Day serendipity version
I have been using this ported template on my blog for a few months now and I finally created a distribution ready version of it. Beautiful Day is a simple two color pastel shaded theme by Viktor Persson. He makes clever use of simple vector shapes and soft colors to create a serene theme.
I have worked hard on the serendipity port to include a number of configurable options for this theme. You can access the following options in administration suite > manage styles: