This means if you using the Sandbox /trunk/ with WordPress 2.3.x and you svn up, well, you’re going to get some errors. Apologies.

There are also a number of new classes for the body: body.page-parent, body.page-child. My favorite new class, though, is the new .untagged class for posts without tags.

So far WordPress hasn’t provided a good way to search for untagged posts. Well, add

.untagged {
   color: #F00;
}

and you’ll figure out quickly which posts are untagged. Crude, but fun.

I’m quite excited about the use of get_avatar and much richer hCards for commentators. You’ll now see the appropriate use of a.url for commentators with links and img.photo with avatars.

I also looked at how to best use the new is_front_page() function. There has always been a body.home class, so now I had to differentiate .home and, well, something else.

So right now we have is_front_page() producing body.home and is_home() producing body.blog. As the front page will be the, er, home page, and the home page will be the page with blog posts.

So chew on that sentence and then figure it out.

Have a look at the working copy of the source, tentatively for version 8.0, in the Subversion project home on Google Code.

I’m aiming to simplify things, but perhaps am a bit snow blind at this point. So how’s the markup? Let me know.

New versions of veryplaintxt and plaintxtBlog are pretty much finished. Next will be Barthelme, Simplr, blog.txt, and then on to the Sandbox. That’s right. An update to the Sandbox is coming in the next couple weeks.

Notable changes to the Sandbox will be the addition of a few new semantic classes for the body and post div elements. Support for the hAtom and hCard microformats will be greatly improved. Expect a number of bug fixes here and there. And the options menu will also be dropped.

Overall, expect great changes to my themes. I’m learning quite a bit as I go along, too. I am especially enthused about improving Microformats support in my themes. The updated versions of my themes will reflect that.

I’m also experimenting with hosting my themes (except the Sandbox—for now) on Google Code. This is good because it provides a full-featured Subversion repository, bug tracking, downloads, documentation, etc. A project hosted on Google Code should stand the test of time.

Enjoy. And be assured there is more to come.