The theme that this theme is based on, “Oceans Mist” had a number of problems that I wont go into.. however one of the biggies was its inability to correctly display archives.

Basically if you had any more than 10 items (or however many you have your WP set up to display in the admin area) they just wouldn’t show up. There was no way to page back through those archives. This is lame, and I’m fixing it.

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I have tried many different content management and blogging systems. None of them have impressed me with their ease of use and functionality nearly as much as Wordpress.  I really like wordpress - the price is right and the product is good.  It’s a fully featured package with as much functionality as you want, and if you don’t find the functionality you need, you can always write it in, in the form of a plugin.  Kudos Wordpress.

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I have gone ahead and customized the permalink structures from something vague and cryptic to something a little more human readable.  This is something that I had wanted to do for a while but had never really looked into.  Come to find out it’s supported directly by wordpress and all I had to do was change the permissions on a couple of files to make it happen.. It’s easy when you know how - and reading the instructions sure does help.

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Well I have been dinkering around in the CSS of my theme trying to clean some of it up.   It’s an extremely uphill battle.

It has become clear to me that whoever wrote the first version of the CSS that Ocean Mist used, didn’t understand the concept behind CSS.. or at the very least didn’t understand the C (Cascading) in CSS.  CSS can be a beautiful thing if used properly.

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NOTE: This plug-in is dead with the introduction of WP2.3+ ..

The desired functionality plugin is a collection of .. well .. desired functionality that wordpress for whatever reason either is lacking completely, or in my opinion does poorly. Much of it will be things that I wanted to fix in the wordpress core, but I don’t want to hassle with the source repository (as it’s a mess and things don’t seem to get done in a timely fashion).

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I plan to continue my round of edits to this theme, and once I am done release it to the wild.

I also plan on removing Ed Merritts name from it as after a while its no longer his.  To be completely honest, and a tad harsh about it, his HTML and CSS aren’t very good.  I realize that he probably made the page from adopting someone elses work and modifying it, just as I am going to do to him.. but I plan to clean it up quite a bit;

• CSS and HTML shall have proper indentation
• Custom JS object for doing wizbang stuff
• NO super secret mint chip to track other peoples usage
• More function - there is a lot of stuff that wordpress can do that Ocean Mist just doesn’t take into account.

Etc..

I’ll keep you posted.  Right now its not far enough along to call it my own, but once it is I’ll start posting it.