If you love TwentyTen and want to keep using it with a bunch of updates then this is your theme. Also look for a version to match the new TwentyEleven Theme coming out soon.

Quick feature list

• WordPress Header Image Support
• WordPress Background Image Support
• Custom Styling of Fonts, Colors and Layout
• Show Full Posts or Excerpts on Main Blog Page
• Custom Logo Uploader
• 6 Header Layouts, 6 Content Layouts and 7 Footer Layouts

TwentyTen Extended is a child theme of the default WordPress theme TwentyTen. I have integrated ThemeKit for WordPress into it so that users have the option of changing the theme styles without editing any code. Everything in TwentyTen Extended is just like TwentyTen other than the addition of a Settings menu under the Appearance section. Here a user can make TwentyTen any color they wish with just a few clicks of the mouse. Now you can have your cake and eat it too by making TwentyTen truly your own. If you would like to see it in action, check out http://blog.thickasabrick.net/.

I am working to get the theme up on WordPress.org. It has not yet been listed but you can download it from the link below if you like for now. Please feel free to leave a comment if you find a bug or have a feature request. They can also be submitted here: TwentyTen Extended on Lighthouseapp.com

If you do end up using TwentyTen Extended I would love to see it.

ScreenShots of Settings

Cadet also comes with an options area powered by ThemeKit. With just a few clicks of a mouse you can change fonts, colors, and layouts similar to how you would in a text editor.

Key features of Cadet:

• Easy to make design edits from settings area
• WordPress 3 menu & background support
• Drop-down menus or sidebar navigation options
• Google Font support
• Several different page templates and gallery styles

This is a basic example of how the settings screen created by ThemeKit looks. ThemeKit comes with many of the controls you would want to add prebuilt for you, from a basic textbox to a font/color/size selector with Google font support.

Below is a piece of the code used in the Cadet WordPress theme. As you can see it uses a format that is fairly standard for creating options. One of the features that a lot of other option creators don’t include is the ability to supply a selector. This will tell ThemeKit to write out styles in the header for that selector.

<?php
$tk = new ThemeKitForWP();
$tk->set_option_name('cadet-options');
$optns = array ();

$optns[] = array(
	"desc" =>"Cadet 1.2",
	"type" => "title"
	);

$optns[] = array(
	"name" => "Logo & Tagline",
	"type" => "section"
	);

$optns[] = array(
	"name" => "Logo Display",
	"desc" => "Choose how you would like the logo to be displayed.",
	"id" => "logo_display",
	"type" => "radio",
	"std" => "text",
	"options"=> array(
		"text" => "Text Only",
		"textimage" => "Text with Uploaded Image to the left",
		"image" => "Uploaded Image Only"
		)
	);

$optns[] = array(
	"name" => "Logo Text",
        "id" => "title_color",
	"std" => array('size' => '40','face' => 'Helvetica','style' => 'normal','color' => '#ffffff'),
	"type" => "typography",
	"selector" => "#site-title a",
	"style"=>'font'
	);

$optns[] = array(
	"name" => "Logo Image",
	"id" => "logo_image",
	"std" => "",
	"type" => "upload"
	);

$optns[] = array( "type" => "close"); //End Logo Section

//Register Theme Options
$tk->register_options($optns);

Here is the Pingdom chart starting from when I first set up monitoring back in November of 2010.


I currently have two machines running with VPS.net. The web server is running 4 nodes now with cPanel and LiteSpeed on CentOS. This setup has been working and all the sites hosted on it respond very quickly. I am also running W3 Total Cache and I did have a few issues with getting that set up correctly, which I plan to cover later.

If you have any questions or would like more info, feel free to hit me up on Twitter or leave a comment.

Project Noah is a tool to explore and document wildlife and a platform to harness the power of citizen scientists everywhere.

They have a well-crafted, easy-to-use iPhone app that is great when you’re on the go. There is also an app for Android, but I haven’t used it. One of the nice things is that you can browse everything without having to sign up.

Sign up at ProjectNoah.org

I have been building my design skills by reading and doing a lot of tutorials online. I also got some help from a few friends who are very accomplished designers. Anyhow, this new site is my first design that I am releasing onto the world. You have to start somewhere. I am sure there will be a redesign in the future as I improve my skills as a designer. My next goal is to design and release my own WordPress theme on ThemeForest. Should be and interesting year.

Thanks for stopping in.

Josh