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if(!function_exists('your_function_name')) {
function your_function_name() {
//....
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Change colour scheme
Change font and font size
Change whether to have a full-width lead post, or more traditional two-column layout
Change page dimensions
Configure number of lead posts, recent posts, random posts, and latest comments
Switch logo on or off
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WordPress: How To Create Multiple Paged ArticlesMay 5th, 2006 Many of my posts have multiple pages. WordPress today doesn't provide a visible way to add multiple pages to your (single) article / post.
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Next Generation CSS Based 3 Column Anaconda Theme for WordPress ReleasedSeptember 1st, 2006 I am happy to announce the long awaited release of Anaconda theme for WordPress 2.x (and above) blogs. Your search for a good css based three column WordPress theme is finally over.
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Last Week In Perspective: Joel Spolsky, Hani, SSH Hacking, Translator Plugin & Anaconda ThemeSeptember 4th, 2006 Last week was an interesting one as hot debate raged over Joel Spolsky's article on enterprise language, Hani rightly bashed copious logging of open source software and my article on hacking attempts from Caltech topped the list of most read articles. We released Anaconda, a beautiful 3 column WordPress theme and version 3 of Translator Plugin Pro for WordPress.
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May 15th, 2006 at 11:26 am
Owen released a similar tool, the WordPress Function Cross-reference, a few days ago. I think that you have both done an excellent job. The best way to get the community involved with WordPress development is to make life easier on them by providing cross-referencing tools such as these.
May 15th, 2006 at 11:50 am
Thanks.
I missed reading about Owen’s tool. After looking at it now I can see the value addition of my tool boils down to having annotation / commenting support.
May 22nd, 2006 at 1:04 am
[...] Angsuman launched “an online cross-reference of WordPress’ source code” with support for user-contributed annotations and comments. [...]
July 19th, 2007 at 6:12 am
is it still actual?