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The Dragonskin Theme now also had child themes to give your site the skin of a different colored dragon. The child themes should be included in the download for the theme, and are simply used to modify the color scheme. You select them just as any other theme.

Note: The WordPress repository did not support child themes when I uploaded version 1.5.  Therefore, they will not be included in that package.  Please download them from this page below (added).  My intention for the next version is to include all of them in one package with an switching tool on the admin menu to select the one to use.

Dragonskin Gold

Dragonskin Gold

Download Dragonskin Gold 1.5

Dragonskin Green

Dragonskin Green

Download Dragonskin Green 1.5

For the longest time, my Dragonskin Theme has had WP-PostRatings integration. Recently I removed the integration because it is easy to modify the rating plugin to accomplish the same goal. (I hope that in the future WP-PostRatings will provide a simple way to do this through the admin interface–it really isn’t that hard.)

All you need to do is open wp-postratings/wp-postratings.php and find a line that looks like this:

//add_action('the_content', 'add_ratings_to_content');

Simply uncommenting that line will put the post ratings at the bottom of every post and page. In Dragonskin, I only included it on posts and at the top. To achieve the same, make some modifications to the next block of code, so that it looks like this:


function add_ratings_to_content($content) {
if (!is_feed()|!is_page()) {
$content = the_ratings('div', 0, false).$content;
}
return $content;
}


I followed the instructions here for installing an akismet-based spam filter on phpBB2, but I found that it didn’t play nicely enough with the current Akismet API.  So instead, I downloaded an Akismet class and used that instead.  Basically, you should use Akismet.class.php instead of functions_akismet.php in your spamwords.php file.

1. Install the spamwords mod
2. Download Akismet.class.php and put this under your phpBB2 includes/ directory
3. Modify the spamwords.php file so that it looks like this (include your Akismet API at the top):

First of all, let me preface this posting by saying there are a lot of versions of a “sitewide” plugin to show recent posts.  There are however, no widgetized versions that I could find, so I made a simple one.

Download WPMU Recent Posts Widget

Latest version 1.1

Wrap your blog in the skin of a dragon! This is a dark theme that has a nice look for RPG and gaming sites. I originally developed this theme to go along with my D&D fan site. It features CSS-drive drop-down menus, support for multiple authors, and fluid width for flexible resolutions. (See below for full list of features and details.)

If you like this theme please rate it at WordPress!

Example Site Using Dragonskin

Features

• Widget enabled
• Gravatar enabled
• Drop-down menu
• Supports an optional header image to replace the text tile (just include an image as images/header.gif)

Integrated Support for Plugins

• Random Redirect
• Coauthors
• Smart 404

Image Credits

• Bowie J. Poag
• Brilliant Button Maker – for the 80×15 badges
• Arcsin Website Templates – for the border image

Download

Version 1.3 – January 10, 2010

• Added image for nicer looking blockquote
• Added comment capability back to pages (but don’t display “comments disabled” when turned off)
• Added support for local favicon
• Added two child themes
• Removed WP-PostRatings integration, integration can be done by editing the plugin

Version 1.2 – September 22nd, 2009

• Separated the navigation bar to a separate file for easier modification (navbar.php)
• Reduced the post area/black scroll width to see a little more of the background
• Reduced transfer size (dragonskin-4bit.png)
• Expanded author profile page to include all posts listing
• Fixed bug that occurs if you have the optional files set unreadable – won’t generate an error on files existing without permissions
• Added support for plugins
  • Coauthors
  • Smart 404
• Replaced deprecated: link_pages, wp_list_cats, get_archives
• Changed to display subcategories inline in drop-down menu
• Removed code for Similar Posts plugin – the plugin includes a way to insert itself through the admin interface
• Removed static-sidebar.php support
• Removed clickheat support – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/easy-clickheat-intergration-plugin/
• Removed post-banner.php support – suggest to use http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/smart-ads/

Version 1.1 – December 9th, 2008

• Fixed some accidental plugs for Heroes Only.
• Fixed sidebar bug on archive pages pushing sidebar below the content
• Licensed under GPL

Version 1.0 – October 17th, 2008

If you like this theme please rate it at WordPress!

The CutlineNegative theme for WordPress is based on the Cutline theme by Chris Pearson. It’s main feature is that it produces a gray-on-black Cutline instead of the typical black-on-white.

Download CutlineNegative-1.1 ZIP file

It has a few other personal tweaks, but if all you really care about is the color scheme, then you can simply download the custom.css file instead. Simply replace custom.css in the Cutline theme with the file below.

Download CutlineNegative-1.1 CSS file

Forum: Topic Reply in Email phpBB MOD
Download: Topic Reply in Email phpBB MOD

This is a mod I made for phpBB 2.0.22. It works for me, and I’d like to get feedback on it. I wanted a way to see what people were saying in the forum before I clicked over to respond. This mod hasn’t been tested for the ocassion when quote tags aren’t closed properly or in some other way mangled.

What this mod does do:

• Include the text of your response in the notification email that is sent to users watching the topic.
• Remove escaped characters and HTML encoding
• Apply email-style quotes with >

What this mod does not do:

• Handle BBcode other than quote tags.

Things you should test before installing this mod to see if the behavior is acceptable:

• Mangled quote tags
• Unmatching/unclosed quote tags
• Various creative posts that might confuse the parsing