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		<title>Barecity: a minimalist and customizable WordPress theme</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been tinkering with the Barecity theme that I&#8217;ve chosen for this blog.  I was attracted to the simplicity of it, the minimalist elegance, the readability and the copious white space.  I moved the sidebar up to the top, changed to a serif font for the posts while leaving the navigation as sans-serif, added a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been tinkering with the <a href="http://shaheeilyas.com/barecity/">Barecity</a> theme that I&#8217;ve chosen for this blog.  I was attracted to the simplicity of it, the minimalist elegance, the readability and the copious white space.  I moved the sidebar up to the top, changed to a serif font for the posts while leaving the navigation as sans-serif, added a permalink at the bottom of each post, and made various other small adjustments.  I was inspired by some other blogs that use the Barecity theme, including one called <a href="http://www.peterandrewryan.com/baking/about/">Pete Bakes</a>.  I was also somewhat inspired by the <a href="http://www.plaintxt.org/themes/blogtxt/">blog.txt</a> theme.  Some of the modifications I made to Barecity brought it closer to looking like blog.txt.</p>
<p>For a while, I was mystified that the search box title became serif when I changed the stylesheet for the main text, even though the rest of the side bar items remained sans-serif.  I eventually tracked down the problem to the functions.php file.  I mention it here in case anyone else is having similar problems.</p>
<p>Here is the section of code that was changed, after my changes.<br />
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<div class="wp_syntax"><div class="code"><pre class="php" style="font-family:monospace;">// custom widgets
&nbsp;
function widget_yes_search($args) {
extract($args);
?&gt;
&nbsp;
 <span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">&lt;?php</span> <span style="color: #b1b100;">echo</span> <span style="color: #000088;">$before_widget</span><span style="color: #339933;">;</span> <span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">?&gt;</span>
 <span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">&lt;?php</span> <span style="color: #b1b100;">echo</span> <span style="color: #000088;">$before_title</span> <span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">?&gt;</span>
 <span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">&lt;?php</span> _e<span style="color: #009900;">&#40;</span><span style="color: #0000ff;">'Search'</span><span style="color: #009900;">&#41;</span><span style="color: #339933;">;</span> <span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">?&gt;</span>
 <span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">&lt;?php</span> <span style="color: #b1b100;">echo</span> <span style="color: #000088;">$after_title</span><span style="color: #339933;">;</span> <span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">?&gt;</span>
  &lt;form id=&quot;searchform&quot; method=&quot;get&quot; action=&quot;<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">&lt;?php</span> 
  <span style="color: #b1b100;">echo</span> <span style="color: #000088;">$_SERVER</span><span style="color: #009900;">&#91;</span><span style="color: #0000ff;">'PHP_SELF'</span><span style="color: #009900;">&#93;</span><span style="color: #339933;">;</span> <span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">?&gt;</span>&quot;&gt;
    &lt;div&gt;
     &lt;input type=&quot;text&quot; name=&quot;s&quot; id=&quot;s&quot; size=&quot;15&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
     <span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">&lt;?php</span> <span style="color: #666666; font-style: italic;">/*&lt;input type=&quot;submit&quot; 
     value=&quot;&lt;?php _e('Search'); ?&gt;&quot; /&gt;*/</span><span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">?&gt;</span>
    &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/form&gt;
 <span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">&lt;?php</span> <span style="color: #b1b100;">echo</span> <span style="color: #000088;">$after_widget</span><span style="color: #339933;">;</span> <span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">?&gt;</span>
&nbsp;
<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">&lt;?php</span>
<span style="color: #009900;">&#125;</span></pre></div></div>

<p>If you&#8217;d like to know more technical details about any of the modifications I&#8217;ve made to the Barecity theme, feel free to ask me.</p>
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		<title>First Post &#8211; Welcome to the Strangeattractor Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the Strangeattractor blog.   I have many interests, and after thinking about whether to start separate blogs for various topics or to start one blog that talks about many topics, I have opted to do the latter, at least to start with.  I might end up using WordPress categories in the future, but for now [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to the Strangeattractor blog.   I have many interests, and after thinking about whether to start separate blogs for various topics or to start one blog that talks about many topics, I have opted to do the latter, at least to start with.  I might end up using WordPress categories in the future, but for now I&#8217;ll use tags.  Hopefully if there are just one or two topics that you want to follow, you&#8217;ll be able to subscribe to the RSS feeds for just those topics.  When I figure out the details of how to do that, I&#8217;ll post about it.</p>
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