Added theme switcher by Ryan Boren. I use two themes Labs and MyTheme - both are deep modifications of Kubrick theme and are identical in what I call “content flow management”. All differences only in CSS styling. When on single post page you can see latest 5 posts in that category. Labs theme uses random header picture.

I noticed some strange thing with this theme switcher. When I was validating the Labs theme page it looked like Validator checked pages belonging to both - Labs and MyTheme. Hope there are no other effects , especially on accessibility of my pages.

Also, both themes uses a chunk of code to show random post from particular category on top of home page. If there are no posts then it shows nothing. if only one post in that category then this post will be shown. This is useful in two cases. If you want to make anouncements from time to time- you drop in that category a post. Or you may use it to give visitors pieces of information, randomly. Those , who visited my site before may have noticed random funny sayngs displayed on top.

Slideshow on the sidebar of my site is my hack of Lazyest Gallery plugin for Wordpress. When I moved to Wordpress my old habits and preferences moved with me, I think. I liked ZoomGallery component for Joomla/Mambo and at some point I made module for showing random pictures from the Zoom gallery on a sidebar. Core of the module was JavaScript Slideshow module which I found on the net.

Lazyest Gallery for Wordpress looks and feels much like the ZoomGallery for Joomla and I decided to repeat the same trick. Basically what I did in this case is just made a new function inside the lazyest-gallery.php core functions file. Again, core of this function is JavaScript slideshow engine. (more…)