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I was looking into custom WordPress theme tutorials when a friend of mine pointed out this tutorial. It is very well written and covers the following topics:

• Creating a Theme HTML Structure
• Template and Directory Structure
• The Header Template
• The Index Template
• The Single Post, Post Attachment, & 404 Templates
• The Comments Template
• The Search Template & The Page Template
• The Archive, Author, Category & Tags Template
• The Sidebar Template
• Reset-Rebuild Theme CSS & Define Your Layouts

Quite complete, and definitely enough to get started in developing your own WordPress themes.

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This weekend I tried to autoupdate my blog to WordPress 2.8. This failed for some still unknown reason. Since this fail I was stuck with the following message in my admin page: “An automated WordPress update has failed to complete”.

I decided to update WordPress manually but the message kept in place. It turned out that I needed to remove a file called “.maintenance” from the website root directory. Finally the message disappeared

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Michiel had a very nice comment on my blog. If you post a comment and make an error in the captcha the whole comment is deleted and you can type the thing all over again.

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In one of my posts I had a nasty problem which took me a while to find out a solution. The problem was with having two dashes next to each other in an Linux command where I was writing about. Even though I wrote two dashes, WordPress made it appearing as one.

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Google webmaster tools is a nice place for uploading your sitemap. There are several sites around which can create a sitemap automatically. One problem: your weblog has dynamic content. This means you have to update your sitemap every time you add a new post to your blog…

part of the Osiblog sitemap

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Smashing magazine posted an article describing 10 steps to improve the protection of your WordPress admin. This is really interesting since hacking WordPress seems to be very interesting for hackers.

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As you can see this blog has several subpages like photography and about. My problem was to have a page linked to an external website. Therefore I used:

Now it turned out, there is a WordPress plugin available called “Page Links To” When enabled it provides you the option to have a page linked to an external website of your choice. Works a lot better than using Javascript redirects

Page Links To field

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When I started this blog I wanted to have nice looking permalinks for all articles. This means all articles have links like:

instead of

I almost got this working except the fact that my URLs contained “index.php” like:

After searching through lots of websites I found a solution for this issue.
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