Author: o6asan

   I changed the theme of my sites to “Sugar and Spice“. I made three child themes for my site except my netradi.

   There are a lot of things which need work, but I already get bored. So, the rest I do at a later date. (^^;)

Edit:
   This was too shoddy article. I make some addition for my reminder.

   The reason for changing my Themes is I want to use the new features of Themes, about which I wrote on “Upgrading to WordPress 3.6.“. There is also the maintenance and the security of my sites. Besides, I want to support HTML5. Oh yes, about AdSense (He-he).

   The theme “Sugar and Spice” has ‘custom-menu’, ‘responsive-layout’, ‘theme-options’ as its major features. Nowadays, my sites has more accesses via smartphones, so the ‘responsive-layout’ is what I want to use.

   Though I considered revising my old themes before deciding to select a new theme, it seemed to take enormous time because each site had each theme and the themes made by myself. And, a lack of my knowledge about WordPress Theme (^^;). Besides, I’ve learned about “Child Theme” of WordPress Theme since I began WordPress blogs. So, at my new Theme I don’t make any changes on the parent Theme, I use the child Theme features for this purpose.

   WordPress has a huge number of Themes as you know. It is very difficult to choose a Theme from among them. So, I decided the range was only “Featured Themes“. I think the Theme among them maybe has new features and decent supports. I was tired and bored about this, finally, I settled for “Sugar and Spice“.

   I made a style.css for the child Theme. It includes the next customizations.
body {
color: #000;
}
/* Typography */
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
color: #000;
}
/* Calendar Widget */
table th,
table td{
color: #000;
border: none;
text-align: left;
}

   The most struggling thing is the change of the original color of the Color scheme in the Theme Options. This original script is not in the style.css but in sugar-and-spice/inc/extras.php. Various new techniques appear, but an amateur like me is not following them (Sigh!).

   With this revision, I stopped the use of “One Row Calendar” and “My Link Order”. I’ve use them for a long time. I thanked the authors of both plugins m(_”_)m.

Edit2(Mar.9):

• **About style.css customization
  • ****For displaying table’s background image
    /* Calendar Widget */
table th,
table td{
color: #000;
background: transparent;   <--- I added this line. border: none;
text-align: left;
}
  • ****For darker comment form font color
    /* #Forms */
input[type="text"],
input[type="search"],
input[type="password"],
input[type="email"],
textarea,
select {
color: #000;
}

    input[type="text"]:focus,
input[type="search"]:focus,
input[type="password"]:focus,
input[type="email"]:focus,
textarea:focus {
color: #000;
}

    label span,
legend span {
color: #000;
}

Edit3(Mar.9):
   I created my own WOFF file for “Sugar and Spice” child Theme.
　　　　　To create a WOFF file from my own handwriting-#1.
　　　　　To create a WOFF file from my own handwriting-#2.
　　　　　To create a WOFF file from my own handwriting-#3.

   This morning I had a update message about WordPress3.8.1 on my Dashboard. I checked the ChangeLog out and found this was a minor maintenance release. So, I tried to wait the feature Background Updates which were introduced in WordPress 3.7.

   I tested my multisite by Background Update Tester created by WordPress.org. Then I had the result below.
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Automatic background updates require a number of conditions to be met.

　　PASS: Your WordPress install can communicate with WordPress.org securely.
　　PASS: No version control systems were detected.
　　PASS: Your installation of WordPress doesn’t require FTP credentials to perform updates.
　　PASS: All of your WordPress files are writable.

This site is able to apply these updates automatically. Cool!
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   I was waiting for Automatic Background Updates to finish. Finally, I had the email below.
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Subject : Your site has updated to WordPress 3.8.1 (2014.1.24 20:13)
Message :
　　Howdy! Your site at http://MySite has been updated automatically to WordPress 3.8.1.

　　No further action is needed on your part. For more on version 3.8.1, see the About WordPress screen:
　　https://MySite/wp-admin/about.php

　　If you experience any issues or need support, the volunteers in the WordPress.org support forums may be able to help.
　　http://wordpress.org/support/

　　The WordPress Team
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   Mission complete! Clap Clap.

   However, this feature remind me that we always need to watch out our PC environments. If the features like this are used by malevolent things, we might be given a lot of malwares.