I made an idiotic mistake – leaving the wrong bit of code out of most of the templates, and hardcoding the image in them, making it impossible to hide it as many people do. Hey, some of us just aren’t flower people, I get it!

Anyway, you can download Blossom 2.3 at WordPress.org. in a couple of days or download here at Rose City Gardens

Sorry for the boo-boo! It looked just awful I’m sure and I hope you’ll keep using Blossom for your WordPress blog!)

Note – I’ll be creating a support forum specifically for theme bugs and problems, with each new theme having it’s own topic. It’s a lot easier to keep up with requests on a forum for me, and the answers to questions will be there for future users to find.

All the best – again, please forgive this old web wench!

I’ve made great progress with the new Blossom Theme for WordPress.

The tabbed sidebar module is actually three sidebars. You can leave them as they are, or you can change the tab text in the theme options panel and pop in your own choice of widgets. The block of six 125 X 125 blog ads is also configurable through the theme options panel – you can paste your ad code into the corresponding text box, or choose to hide the block of ads entirely. At the top right of the page you can change the introductory text or hide it.

For those who like “simple,” you can also show or hide the flower graphic at the top of the content column.

I highly recommend the tutorial and source file examples that Dan at Theme Forest puts together in a post called Create an Options Page For Your WordPress Theme. Thanks, Dan! I couldn’t have done it without you!

Just a few more bits to put together and Blossom will be submitted to the theme directory for approval. Stay tuned!

Click the screenshot for a preview of Blossom, the next free WordPress theme from Rose City Gardens. It’s not quite finished; I still have bits and pieces to style and options to add.

Blossom will be ready for release by the end of the week. Stay tuned!

I’ve got the Woopra Analytics plugin installed – which is awesome, by the way – and was just looking at the list of visitors’ countries for the last month. We’re so international! Visitors from Canada, England, Germany, India and many more countries, even Indonesia, where I used to live.

When I was a child we traveled extensively, and I became familiar with other cultures early on – when we finally settled down in Georgia, when I was in my teens, I felt like a stranger in a strange land!

I’m an old broad now, and have settled in the Pacific Northwest – I’ve been in Oregon for 9 years now, and I’ll probably never make the journey to Europe or Asia again. But looking at my stats, I realize that I actually have been traveling in cyber-space, or rather cyber-space has been traveling to me!

So, Hello World! Don’t be strangers – post a comment and say Hello back!

All of the Garden’s themes are now upgraded for WordPress 2.7 – that took me way too long, but I was like the keystone coder trying to get them ready. Little things kept going wrong – using the wrong screenshot, wrong tags, little style bugs (mostly in IE, damn it). I’m about to upload an update to Daisy Gray to fix the text widget styling. I need to slow down!

Still, I absolutely love making new WordPress themes. Right now I’m working on a very pretty (but not too girly) theme – look for a screenshot in about a week’s time. Famous last words…I’ll get it done before 2010, I promise!

Download your theme’s update from your WordPress backend or go here:

Coronado
Daisy Gray
Green Apples
Tickled Pink
Zeeb

Happy blogging!