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Sandbox theme competion winners (Aug 2007)

10 fresh, elegant and clean ones from Smashing Magazine (May 2007)
21 more from Smashing Magazine (Jun 2007)
another 83 from Smashing (Feb 2007)

A list from TechRoam (Nov 2006)
The best minimalist WordPress themes (plaintxt.org, Jun 2006)

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How Wordpress works, convert static html to a WordPress template. Good introduction if you are migrating from Blosxom
Dissecting WordPress permalinks
The top five ways of keeping your WordPress valid
Wimpy player has WordPress support
Spotback rating plugin
John Chow’s 10 best plugins
Blog Joint top plugins

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There seems to be no out-of the box solution for moving a site with several levels of subcategories from Blosxom to WordPress and keeping the subcategories intact. Neither Jason Clark’s, nor hohndel.org’s suggestions worked for me without a lot of work. I’ve had no luck with the WordPress wiki or the standard ways of importing […]

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I might as well document what I’m doing with this site as I set it up, for future reference when upgrading themes or WordPress itself.
Theme.
The theme used is Cutline as it seems to be XHTML valid out of the box and is well documented. All of the old halvorsen.org is XHTML 1.1, Cutline is 1.0 […]

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I’ve been meaning to move away from Blosxom for ages and finally got some time on my hands to do so. It just seems like all the air has gone out of Blosxom-balloon. After struggling to get Ecto to work well with BXR (Blosxom XML-RPC Interface) I’ve decided it’s time.

Over the next couple of days I […]

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