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I am changing my wordpress theme for one of my sites (www.phlameworks.com), because the current one (Mambopress 2.2) is giving me some headaches. It has the best layout, the three-column look I’ve always wanted, but I have the following issues with it

1. Any plugins that depend on the is_single(), is_home() or is_archive() functions of wordpress are hopelessly broken.
2. The fonts are just too small and ugly and painful on the eyes, and the stylesheet is too cluttered up for me to start editing. I am a programmer, not a layout specialist!
3. I am bored with it - the colors were just depressing, I was tired of seeing just black-and-gray that I couldnt change.

I guess you can always have everything you want. So I did not see results for all my hardwork in editing themes, despite reading through the WP codex, with its inconsistencies. Imagine them deprecating the wp_list_cats() function in WP 2.1, replacing it with wp_list_categories(), and adding a function paramenter which was not documented! This caused my categoires to show up under a stupid, unlinked parent which identified itself simply as “categories”. I struggled and struggled with the code after i had upgraded, before I found the undocumented argument, list_li. The codex says its a boolean variable, yet the source files say its a string variable. Jeez.

Anyway, I found that my Snap Preview (SPA) plugin doesnt work with the general stucture of the MamboPress Theme, for the same reason why my conditional-display-of-adsense hack has not worked all this while. The tpbc plugin I installed yesterday is still telling me I have 0 visitors in the last hour, WTF! I looked into the code and I found out that the hit count depends on the is_single() function. Boo. So that’s the key. And all this while I have been going crazy trying to fix tpbc, wondering why I had been fooled into installing (what I thought were) useless plugins…

I went to themes.wordpress.net to look for themes again, maybe I would find something good. I didnt have much time to browse around because NEPA might switch off the power and I still had to upload and test themes on a damn slow 64Kbps link. Man, we learn everyday. At first I selected “blue”, “3-column” and some other parameter, I think it was “rounded corners”. I didnt know the theme browser does an OR search by default, so I got hit with some 2-column themes which I mention below. After I noticed the search filter, I modified it to do an AND search, which narrowed down my list to 15 themes. I downloaded five of them.

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