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Getting this site updated to the latest package of Theia I've had under development (for quite sometime) went smoothly today.

 

I am really glad too because it introduced a host of new features I am already loving; many features which were sitting useless on the demo site and used at none of my sites running Theia. Among these new features are Twitter API integration, loads of usability improvements with tagging, an AJAX item-management tool, improved profile visuals, dramatic improvements to the management of admin tools... and well, probably a number of other things that I developed so long ago that I forgot about. >_<

 

Oh, and as you can see up at the top of the site now, I have already begun to take advantage of the Twitter support by displaying my most recent tweet. :)

 

I won't go discussing when I'll release this package just yet, but what I will say is that I am back, hard at work, on planning and coding. I spent the entire day outlining what I want to get into this coming release and already implemented a number of things.

 

More on the way!

If you follow me on Twitter, you may have caught the fact that I said I was working on getting this site updated to the latest Theia over the weekend. If you're really perceptive, you will probably also notice I haven't done this yet. It isn't that I haven't worked on it much, but that there was a lot more to do with getting my theme up to par than I had expected.

 

Then I got a bright idea! :)

 

What if there was a cool tool in Theia that would tell you everything wrong with your theme?

 

So that's what I've been putting together in my free time both over the weekend and up until now. It's quite handy, if I may say so myself.

 

What the theme validator checks for the following:

 

- the listed package compatibility of the theme versus the version of Theia being run

- if any template files are missing

- if any CSS files are missing

- if any CSS classes are missing

- if any images being referred to in any of the CSS files don't exist

 

The last one there involves a bit of regular expression 'magic' to parse through any CSS files in the theme looking for url() and snags every image name and then checks to see if those files exist on the server. This one has proved to be highly invaluable for me since a lot of the time I'll just copy large chunks of CSS from theme to theme and forget about copying over images it refers to.

 

This tool will be available in the next package of Theia I wrap together and publish. :)

I saw this "tag" next to an ATM outside the Entré mall in Malmö.

 

Wicked relevant, eh? :D