Updated 16th May, and should now work fine with WordPress 2.2. Please report any bugs if found!

In order to get the Quicktags add-on displayed above your comment form start by downloading a copy of comment_quicktags.zip, unzip it and upload the 2 files to your theme directory:

Download comment_quicktags version 1.1

The lightbox image add-on is already packed and ready to use with my new theme Blogvaria. However including this to your existing theme shouldn’t take to long. Start by downloading the original source code from Lokesh Dhakar’s website. Unzip the archived files and upload them to your theme folder:

• ../yourtheme/css/ (1 file)
• ../yourtheme/images/ (10 files)
• ../yourtheme/js/ (4 files)

This article will try to explain how you can modify the included add-ons “Quicktags” and “Lightbox” found in the new theme “Blogvaria“. It will also provide information about the plugins currently used to run all features “pre-installed” in the Blogvaria WP theme.

Featured plugins that works with WP theme “Blogvaria”

• Akismet Spam Count
• Fuzzy Recent Comments
• Fuzzy Recent Posts
• Inline Ajax (front) Page
• Live Comment Preview
• Popularity Contest
• Share This
• Sociable
• WeatherIcon

The Blogvaria theme is now ready for download. To install simply unzip the files to your WordPress theme directory and activate it by selecting the theme from your “Presentation” section in the WP admin.

In order to take advantage of all features in the theme please consider adding the following plugins, but note that I do not provide support for any of these - I just use them like you.

Download Blogvaria WordPress Theme version 1.0

Feel free to comment or ask questions using the comment form below should you encounter any difficulties using this theme. It has been tested on version 2.0.5 - 2.1.1 2.1.2 so if your version isn’t completely out-of-date it should work out-of-the-box…

Edit 1: A tiny bug was corrected 2hrs after the initial release.

Edit 26 Feb 07: An obsolete styling reference was found and removed.

Lightbox is a simple javascript/CSS plugin that allows loading fullsize images as an overlay when clicking the thumbs. Click the picture below to get the basic idea.

To get this nifty add-on running on your site grab the code at Lokesh Dhakar’s website - www.huddletogether.com.

Basic instructions and all files needed are found here - /projects/lightbox2/.