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Ah…thanks for the find Lorelle. It would really be a good thing to try out the theme, even let some friends see it before posting live.

Thanks for the answers guys. I wanted to post a theme for the WP theme competition, but it’s over now.

Francey, my thoughts were exactly like yours (it sounds logical, after all) but wanted to get some more thoughts on this.

Well, I did it. ??

You can download the theme from my site.

Thanks people. ?? I actually do want to make it a downloadable theme, if time allows. Currently this works for me, but it is not straight-forward to setup. And it must be easy to be used. I have seen a lot of good-looking themes I wanted to try, but when I downloaded them it turns out that my blog looks ugly that way – usually because author applied good tweaks for his own use to the otherwise average design.

Kubrick successed because it looked good out of the box and people had guidelines and graphic templates to make it somewhat unique.
If I find time, I will do that with my theme.

nearlythere, there is a bug in the way WP 1.5 is writing down mod_rewrite rules in .htaccess

Look in there, and you will see that it writes category rules (about 4-5 of them) before monthly-archive and single-post rules. Just moved them to the end of the WP section, and all will work.

This happend to me too, but only after I added few Pages (new feature in WP1.5).

To remove the word “category” in category permalinks, you need to change the following line in wp-includes/classes.php:


$this->category_structure = $this->front . 'category/';


into this:


$this->category_structure = $this->front;


This is in get_category_permastruct() method. WP’s mod-rewrite rules already cover URL’s like this, so no problems there. I’m building the theme for my blog and this works great so far. I’ll report if I encounter problems with it.

Of course, this is all in WP 1.5

I do intend, after all the time I invested in it.
For people that want to use /cat-name/post-name/ permalinks, I posted brief explanation of how I did it, for WP 1.2.1.

Yipi. I got it. Rewrite rules was wrong. This is the correct one.
RewriteRule ^([^\/]+)/$ /index.php?category_name=$1 [L]