I’m truly amazed. I think the time has come, I mean not yet but hopefully until final release of WordPress 2.7 will be officially released. Since my last review things has speed up real fast, seem that I hurried a little though.
I’m a hasty type of person you know, should I have waited a little more I guess. But anyway, regardless of what have been said up until now, “the dirty dozen” behind WordPress has eventually come to the most smartest decision ever. The new features 2.7 will bring are magnificent. They decided to implement Automatic Upgrade into WordPress’ Core. I am stoned.

Maybe it’s not as big as I’m making it look, nevertheless it deserves raise of attention and wide-spread publication.

Weblog Tools Collection author Keith Dsouz earlier this summer has presented a list of upcoming features we all should be happy about. Among which is the so much discussed and criticized Automatic Upgrade option, which quietly has been hold behind the curtains. I am simply going to quote him for the list of each particular feature. But before I go into that, he stated that there’s a serious possibility that not all of this features will be coming with 2.7 as they have only been planned/proposed in discussions regarding 2.7. We all have the right to hope, so that is what I am going to do, I suggest you do the same. If by any chance in the end we experience disappointment, then I hope my keyboard breaks for nothing would stop me then from expressing my opinion in a vague manner.

However, yesterday Jeff Chandler (jeffro2pt0) has almost admitted that WordPress 2.7 will have all those. In his long article titled The Road to Automation he specifically discusses WordPress Automatic Upgrade feature, yet withholding from stating it surely. No need to put dust upon your clothes for someone other fails to accomplish his/their responsibility. I fully understand you Jeff.
Below is the list as published in WLTC.com:

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We all love it for it’s simplicity, or at least I do. However, some source claims that Gmail soon will get built-in themes available for it’s users.

I’m not even going into wondering of how the themes will look like or how many of them will be, but what pushes me to write about this, is the thought of why didn’t they make it earlier. Google’s engagement has certainly been much higher upon dealing with troubles caused by other competitors and other particular things rather than worrying about Gmail themes. Plus it could be intentional but the BETA tag still remains there, 4 years and 3 months since it’s initial launch a lot could have been accomplished, considering the fact of Google having 19,156 full-time employees under its giant empire, yet it remains there.

Ultimately, users are able to change the look & feel of GMail, but that in an indirect way of approach, through a GreesMonkey script, using a Firefox extension called Stylish with one, two, three or more user created styles, and again through another Firefox add-on.

If you ask me, there’s no certain need to do that, whether or not Gmail is skinnable makes no real impression to me.
Its functionality is what I like the most.

Yeah… Ha Ha!
Finally someone let me out of my cage
Now, time for me is nothing cos I’m counting no age
Now I couldn’t be there
Now you shouldn’t be scared
I’m good at repairs
And I’m under each snare

I always wanted to create my own WP theme, but never got enough amount of time to make one. One day I found the Smilies Themer WordPress Plugin by Ricardo González, I translated the default.po file in Albanian language and sent it to Rick, but I realized that I somehow liked his theme and asked Rick if he would be generous to handing it out to me for I wanted to make it my default blog theme. But for some strange reasons or not strange at all maybe he hesitated, and what I got from him was very much ‘anger’ which stimulated me to turn my inner engine on and decide to create my own theme. For this I am very grateful to Rick. Thank you Rick, I owe you.

Hence, today I’m very glad to announce my first WordPress theme release for the public, I feel very exited meantime very honored that I am getting involved in the wide WordPress community, or at least be a part of it.

Currently it is only optimized for FireFox and honestly I don’t have that much time to fix it for Internet Explorer yet, thus feel free to download and work on it if you’re willing to do so, of course it is free of charge. Certainly if you fix and send it back to me corrected, I’ll acknowledge you with putting your name on my site as a valuable contributor. I ain’t paying cuz I ain’t earning anything out of it.

You maybe wondering why I named it iPad, it is simple as that, every piece of code was written from scratch using Notepad2 from Flos-freeware.ch, I also recently got my iPod, thus what I did was cut down both names and put it in a new one.

Anyways, there is no demo provided because it’s not necessary, as far as I’m currently using iPad.

And at last, I do not demand that you leave the footer link at all, but I’d be thankful if you refer somehow to me as a greeting for using my theme. I require this only because this is the beginning of me entering the WordPress theme developers community, thus I need to know that my theme is being favored. Thanks in advance.

Update: The blockquote fix is perfectly working on localhost but not on my server, it made me a little nervous but I’m trying to handle it with patience. If you willing to play with my style.css file feel free to do so, because I am not even planning to jump on it soon.
Nevermind, got rid of the code line height: 100%; it is ok on both FF and IE now

Version History

1.0.1 – 02/03/2008

• Fix: Blockquote wasn’t being displayed correctly

1.0.0 – 1/30/2008

• Initial release

Note: For all Internet Explorer users, the WP Download Monitor Pluting I’m using does not display the image on IE, if you’re willing to download iPad follow this link, iPad Theme

Download iPad Theme for WordPress