*sigh*

I found out that there wasn’t a newer version, so after 3 days of re-learning the wordpress plugin system, SQL, and scouring the web, I rewrote the plugin to work with wordpress 2.6.1.

So so without further adu I present to you:

NextPreviousCat

Installation Instructions:
-Copy the text file into your wordpress ‘wp-content\plugins’ directory.
-Rename it to ‘nextPreviousCat.php’.
-Activate it in your plugin setup menu on your admin dashboard.

Download

Just download the file, change the extension from “.txt” to “.php” and save it into your wordpress/plugins directory.
Photopress Random Thumbs Widget

This site is run using the wordpress blog software. While setting it up I couldn’t find a theme that I liked, so I decided to make my own.

Nearly-Sprung is a rework of Becca Wei’s “Almost Spring” using the same orange and green colour scheme. However I modified it to be a three column blog with fluid centre column, and optimised for vertical layout so its possible to not have any vertical scrolling on a 1024×768 screen.

I have built in support for the following plugins:
-Tags
-Gravatars
-Sidebar widgets (two columns)
-Photopress v1.1
-Geo Mashup v1.1 (requires patch to enable map styles)
-Next/Previous Post in same Category plugins (Richard Maxwell v1.0 version)
-Viper’s plugin list Plugin

Also note that to have random header backgrounds, just drop in a 80 pixel high jpg starting with the name “headerbackground-” and it’ll automatically be picked up and used.

Feel free to download and use on your own site. The code is GPL except the header image supplied, which is under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.

Download

For Wordpress version 2.7, 2.8 and higher Nearly-Sprung Wordpress Theme v3.0.0
For Wordpress versions 2.6.x Nearly-Sprung Wordpress Theme v2.0.2
For Wordpress versions 1.5.x to 2.0.x Nearly-Sprung Wordpress Theme v1.0

V3.0.0

-Only works with Wordpress 2.7.x, 2.8.x or higher
-Supports new Wordpress 2.7 comment threading and css styles
-Supports new Wordpress 2.7 javascript comment reply box
-Built in support for splitting pings / trackbacks from comments
-Fixed horizontal scrollbar problem for IE7 users
-Removed support for Official Comments
-Removed support for MK’s Trackping Separator Plug-in

V2.0.2

-Fixed horizontal scrollbars appearing
-Changed width of the search box widget’s text box
-Anything inside the side columns that’s wider will be truncated
-Support for Wordpress 2.6.x (tested on wordpress 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.7.1)
-Partial Support for Wordpress 2.7.x (comment threading isn’t supported)

V2.0.1

-Upgraded to support wordpress 2.6.x
-Upgraded to support Photopress 1.1
-Upgraded to support Geo-Mashup 1.1
-Added Tag Support
-Added Gravatar Support
-Added Settings page so you can configure wether to hide or show the header menu

V1.0.0

-Initial Release
-Support for Wordpress 1.5.x to 2.5.x (tested on wordpress 2.0.2, 2.0.3)

Notes

If you want to edit the column widths, then first read this article. Then edit the top of style.css accordingly. You then need to change the widths on the following properties so that the links are the right width as well:
#leftsidebar ul ul li a
#leftsidebar ul ul ul li a
#rightsidebar ul ul li a
#rightsidebar ul ul ul li a

Secondly, the way that next/previous links for the main page has changed, you need to delete the following lines in index.php:

<?php posts_nav_link(”, __(”), __(’&laquo; Previous entries’)); ?>
<?php posts_nav_link(’ &#183; ‘, __(”), __(”)); ?>
<?php posts_nav_link(”, __(’Next entries &raquo;’), __(”)); ?>

and replace it with:

<?php posts_nav_link(’ &#183; ‘, __(’&laquo; Next entries’), __(’Previous entries &raquo;’)); ?>