This plugin adds buttons to the WordPress editor that correspond to special classes used in the Sawchuk scheme for K2. K2 is a theme for WordPress that has too many feature to mention here (visit Getk2 for details) other than to say one of the most prominent features is the ability to change the look of K2 completely using only CSS. » Read the rest of the entry..

Congratulations go out to the K2 team who are just one decimal place away from a 1.0! You’ve come so far since R167. In honour and homage to their great work, I have update Sawchuk, a scheme for K2, to be compliant with all the changes built into the latest version.

Click the image to see a bit of what Sawchuk and K2 can do. Download below, or go to the official Sawchuk for K2 scheme page for more information. K2 is a theme for WordPress.

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I have just implemented some nifty sidebar tabs for navigating around on this blog. I think they look great. They use the javascript provided at OnlineTools called DomTab (Navigation tabs with CSS and DOMscripting). You can download and view the working example at the OnlineTools website. I searched out a way to do this after I saw the very neat navigation tabs used at AlwaysBeta and their post on how to use them. Unfortuneatly, I couldn’t figure out what they where doing (I’m a cut and paste / follow the example pattern kind of guy, and they didn’t provide much in the wat of how to [thats not a knock against them btw]). In the alwaysbeta version, they have incorporated some slick slide and fade effects — to savy for this guy. I’m just happy mine works (tested in IE, Opera, and FF using XP). » Read the rest of the entry..

Not that at this time, these intructions are valid for V163 only. Thats not to say they won’t work with later versions (I’m sure it will), but finding the exact code to change may be hard. Anyway, read through them all before starting. In some cases, you may want to just comment things out instead of deleting them (read how to do this at the end). And feel free to ask questions.

1. Install http://semiologic.com/software/static-front/ and don’t activate just yet
2. Create a page and give it the slug of home. This will become your static front page.
3. Create a category called blog, and shove all posts into this category or just move all other categories into it. (you don’t have to call it blog FYI)

4. [optioinal] Edit your permalink structure. You cannot remove /category/ from the permalink structure so I changed

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Introducing Sawchuk, a scheme for the K2 theme for Wordpress. Sawchuk is a theme loosely based on the style of webreakstuff.com, you can view the scheme in action right now, simply by roaming around maxpower.ca. There are no modifications to the K2 core, so all you need do is upload the CSS file and associated directory and you are ready to go.

To Install: upload chosen scheme to the styles dir. in your K2 dir. in the Themes dir. otherwise known as themes>k2xxx>styles> In this folder.

Activating A Scheme: Go to the Presentation tab, then to the K2 Options SubTab, and select the scheme that you’ve chosen using the K2 Scheme drop down menu. Click the Update Options button on the bottom of the page.

Now compliant with K2 V0.9

Download the Sawchuk Scheme v0.5

Using the styles featured for this theme:

Go to the Test Style Post and view all the things that Sawchuk for K2 can do. In each case, the example style contains the needed text to implement the style in your post. So for example, in order to create the “Now compliant with K2 v0.9″ message above the code would be:
[css]

Now compliant with K2 V0.9

[/css]

Updates will be made as they happen with a complete v1.0 release of the K2 theme. Also, the current version does not include the Navigation Tabs shown in the sidebar as it requires modifying the Sidebar code.

If you use and like this theme, spread the word, bookmark it, tell your friends. Just somewhere on your site say that you got
this from maxpower.ca. Heck, here is some HTML you can cut and paste:
<a href="http://www.maxpower.ca/sawchuk/" title="Maxpower: Sawchuk for K2" />
Sawchuk Scheme at Maxpower</a>

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