[UPDATE FOR WORDPRESS 1.5+ and 2.0 users: check out my comprehensive list of over 615+ WordPress 1.5 themes ]

Apparently some of the most popular templates for use with WordPress 1.2 (Gemini layout, Trident layout, and The Vesuvius layout) recently became unavailable from their original sources. Craig at NuclearMoose had been kind enough to make these WordPress templates available once again for free download to the WordPress community. (Thanks Craig!!!!)

Updated 11/7/2004: NuclearMoose site no more?

Looks like Craig’s taken his site down (I’ll miss it!!), so I’m uploading the templates here in the spirit of honoring Craig’s initial intent — to keep these awesome templates freely available to the WordPress community.

Download gemini.zip (4.1K)

Download trident.zip (4.1K)

Download vesuvius.zip (4.3K)

NOTE - these templates are for WordPress 1.2.

If you’ve upgraded to Strayhorn, the latest version of WordPress (1.5), check out my comprehensive list of over 286+ WordPress 1.5 themes that I found by hunting around the blogosphere

From http://wordpress.org/docs/installation/different-address/:

WordPress has a number of files and directories it requires to operate. Previously, all these files and directories and your blog home page (index.php) had to be in the same directory. Now with 1.2, you can have your blog index in a different directory than your WordPress files with no problems, and here we explain how.

We’re going to assume two things:

You’ve already installed WordPress at http://example.com/wordpress/
You want your blog home page to be http://example.com/

Without Further Ado

Go to your Options page. It should say your WordPress address and Blog address are the same. Change your Blog address to be http://example.com

Copy the index.php file from the wordpress directory into the root of your site.

Now open up index.php and change the line that says require(’./wp-blog-header.php’); to be require(’./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php’);

Open up wp-config-sample.php and fill in your database details. Save and rename the file to wp-config.php.

Finally if you’re using the mod_rewrite option for your blog URIs you’ll need to go to Options › Permalinks to get the new rewrite rules and copy those to a .htaccess file at the root of your site.

Caveats
The only catch is the ‘Edit this’ links will no longer appear by every entry and comment if you’re using this option. This is a limitation of how we’re setting cookies, and this may be fixed in the future.

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Personal note: after reading through these instructions, I’m thinking it may just be easier to install the wordpress files into the root directory of my domain so that I don’t have to deal with the ‘caveats’ and can have full functionality of wordpress whilst still having my Tool Reviews weblog pages appear in the root of my domain. Is this a bad idea??

Note 2: While still very much a work in progress, the Tool Review Site will be where I test out the WordPress platform.

Well, a comment promoting WordPress was left by Carthik to one of my posts - and after looking at his blog I came across a post heralding a WordPress Easter Egg that gives one access to every customizable thing one could want. As I’ve still not yet tried WordPress, I can’t comment on how well this works. Screenshots or descriptions of what all these new options are would help, but it’s nice to know they exist (whatever they are). I’ll definately be checking these out when I start my first WordPress blog. Thanks Carthik!

As stated in his post, to activate the easter egg:

If you use wordpress 1.2, go to http://example.com/wp-admin/options.php?option_group_id=all
(where example.com/wp-admin is the URI of your wordpress wp-admin folder), for all the buttons and levers you’ll ever need.

Be warned, however. One commenter on Carthik’s site tried the easter egg and had the following to say, ‘Great find, please be aware that this can have dire consequences on the functioning of your site. For wahtever reason, when I tried to save anything it deactivated my not defaultly installed plugins giving me errors everywhere. Luckily I worked it out relatively quickly, but the expletives had already come out. doh! ‘