I found an awesome Pirates of the Carribean theme at themecritic.com. For all those fandom hussies out there, this one’s calling you for an easy implementation for your new WordPress site.
Great use of images to catch your eye with post titles & with categories in the sidebar, and a beautiful Jack Sparrow banner at the top. The colors are complementary and easy to read. I hope somebody likes it and uses it!
Found via Weblog Tools Collection, a WordPress Theme Generator for those who aren’t up to the task of editing a theme for themselves quite how they want to. Create the theme with a live preview, then download the zip file and upload the theme into your WordPress theme’s directory.
Probably handy for people who want to combine elements from this theme with one they already like by viewing the code for help. 2.3 compliant & now with tags & tag clouds.
I just found a theme very reminiscent of a common livejournal layout. It looks like it’s as easily (and more) customizable as the standard LJ layout.
Simple, 3 Column layout. Header area contains title & banner spot (currently empty). Just beneath is a band of color with links such as “home” and “about.” Footer contains the necessary homage to Wordpress & the credit for the theme link.
Body columns
Categories, archive link, calendar view on the left.
Content in the middle.
Tags, blogroll/links, meta content/links, and search on the right.
resources
WordPress Theme Viewer
I just ran into a big problem when I updated to WordPress version 2.3 — they’ve now integrated tags into their core, and I don’t have the time available tonight to edit my theme to include the WP default codes and investigate how import from the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin.
What’s that mean? My tags don’t work. The two tagging systems are battling for supremacy, & WP is winning, but UTW is already coded into the theme. Lesson learned: always do upgrades when you’ve got the time. 
It’s hard to make the transition from livejournal to your own hosted blog like ones available at wordpress.org. There isn’t an instant network of people you can browse through — independently hosted blogs just are connected in the way that ’social networks’ like livejournal, facebook, or even myspace is. & it’s a lot harder to get set up.
Let’s face it, nobody blogs for himself, but nobody wants to ‘advertise’ their blog either. We’ve all browsed the comment section of a YouTube video and see those comments. “great video check out my hilarious vid where a kid farts in someones face!”
But it’s easy, actually, to build up a readership. Wordpress features a variety of integrated plugins and services that help you get your name out. The key? Read read read, link link link. Read other blogs: fandom, special interests, news, whatever. Link to those places. Talk about it.
livejournal plugins problems themes wordpress !DOES NOT WORK WITH LATEST WORD PRESS UPDATES!
I’ve found a plugin which seems to do everything I would want from an “lj-cut” plugin and much, much more.
It’s called Hide or Cute Post Text. I’m going to quote extensively from the plugin page — prepare to drool.
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Basically, the plugin just does not work, even though I reuploaded my whole site for it. I am back to theme of workingness and wondering if I should just try to ignore the paged commentness for a while. I am thinking of remaking the whole theme from scratch, anyway, for some customization without worrying over what code I’ll screw up. If you know your code from the ground up, you are able to do more things with it.
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The best one from a once-over. Start by coding a page entirely in CSS+HTML, then begin your theme from there. It looks fantastic, and I’ll probably use it one of these days.
wordpress.org
Wordpress pages are always very good for the beginning and final say on their software.
anenkostudios.com
Looks like a good complement to the others.
Gravatar (avatars)
Gravatar + LJ userpics (different)
Everybody wants what LJ has — userpics with posts! I think there’s a variation that allows commenters to have a userpic as well. Question: would that be a version of the favicon (must. install. my own) plugin?
paged + threaded comment
Probably going to delete Brian’s Threaded Comments & use this supplementary version of that.
subscribe to comments
+ stats
Like thumbtacking threads on LJ. Awesome.
livejournal crossposter
Necessary, but ultimately it should be a complementary tool that’s almost unneeded.
lj user
Plugin instead of a hack for lj users. Doesn’t support LJ-cuts, which the hack does.
SEO Title Tags
Because Wordpress uses the post title as the title tags.
Clipmarks (Firefox plugin)
AWESOME! Found on AutismVox, and I must say that I WANT! Haven’t installed the plugin yet, so I don’t know how great it’ll work, but I can see how reccing fics or discussing posts would benefit greatly from this plugin.
spoiler tags like TWoP
If a spoiler’s too small for an LJ cut. Besides, I like the highlight feature.
post ’series’ maker
good for ep reviews?
Also good for fic. And back & forth discussions. Can it be used in “response” posts?
anonymous comments
on specific posts & pages
for the inevitable memes that could pop up — but will it read IP addresses still?
comments preview
Something that annoyed me in LJ was the extra click to preview.
excerpt editor
will be used in RSS feeds/can be automatic or not.
I forgot to test commenting after I added each plugin. *headdesk*
eta - It definitely has something to do with Brian’s Threaded Comments, something that I thought I’d fixed forever and a day ago. Gonna go through line by line after work today comparing the red-train and briansthreadedcomments comments.php pages. The comments post, you’re just taken to an error page.
Not sure if comment e-mail responder works, either.
Also not working: blogroll.
eta - just added a post to Brian’s support section at his forum. Hopefully somebody there will be able to tell me how stupid I am. *crosses fingers*
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