Just made a few little changes. Different RSS Icon (I love the graphic preview in the Theme Options anyplace you can change a graphic – you can change quite a few). A super nice feature of FlexSqueeze, and Flexibility for that matter, is that many of the included graphics are transparent PNG files that pickup the background color you select for them allowing virtually unlimited options for the blog without re-doing every graphic to match. This is results in an incredible savings of time and labor – a LOT – when you want to duplicate a site and then make minor adjustments to give it a custom look and feel. Did I mention how much I like this theme after only a few days?!

One thing I have noticed is the amount of time it takes to reload the Admin screens once you tell FlexSqueeze to save your latest changes. It seems quite long. I really have no idea what would cause it to take so long to save each time. Might be caused by the theme or any number of outside things (server, etc.).  Only an issue when you’re incredibly impatient to see your changes – me, impatient? Hmm….

Time to go and relax for the night. It’s been a long day since it started at 5:00 a.m. — see ya!

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I setup this blog site to do some testing of different things and had no plans on doing anything but creating “test this”, “test that” and so on. Then I decided to go ahead and annotate whatever I did so I would have notes to return to when doing production configurations and possibly so someone else could benefit from what I experienced. If you happen by please don’t expect perfect notes and fancy results. Take what you can use and leave the rest.

Initially I installed WordPress 2.9.2 and FlexSqueeze and removed the Hello Dolly Plugin. Next I changed the permissions of all PHP & CSS files in /wp-content/themes/flexsqueeze to 777 to insure there would be no permission issues. I attempted to set FlexSqueeze to its “dark” setting, however, it did not change the appearance of the skin. I double the file permissions and repeated this the change to the dark setting several times with no change in the site appearance. I notified the author, Ryan Graberstein, and he recommended I check the permissions. Like a goof I forgot to tell him I’d already done this.

This evening I decided to play around with the settings a little bit to make some minor changes. One of the changes was to be installation of the PixoPoint Menu Plugin. I installed it and did a little setup. Then created some test categories, test sub-categories and test posts. I did NOT install the code changes outlined by Ryan. I then went to FlexSqueeze Options and changed the text and title for the default Top Side Bar (About this blog). When I clicked on Save Settings from this theme option the change to Dark suddenly took effect and now looks as it should. Obviously I’ll report this issue to the FlexSqueeze author.

I must say, I really love this theme! So many options can be quickly set rather than spending a bunch of time in the CSS and code. I’m glad I spent the $. Also, Ryan has been super about communicating with me one-on-one via email about some issues I’d run into on another blog I have configured with his incredible (and free!) Flexibility2 skin. You’ll appreciate the time you save if you get Flexibility2 or spend a small sum on the unlimited domain license for FlexSqueeze.

Cheers………

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