The Manifest theme is all about the content. No widgets and sidebars just 500px of single column content space nice and clean. The wordy types will appreciate very “McSweeny’ish” .

If you like clean minimal styling this theme for you. Oulipo puts the focus on your content with a grid-based design and elegant typography, it makes a perfect theme for e-portfolio, journal or photo blog.

Features:

• Three Columns
• Threaded Comments
• Right Sidebar
• Fixed Width
• Custom Background
• Custom Header
• Custom Menu
• Theme Options
• Sticky Post

A long standing bug has been fixed that was preventing users from using the xml-rpc remote publishing features on UBC Blogs.

For those unaware of the feature you can use this to post / edit content using native iPhone/iPad, Android or BlackBerry apps.

To get this going on your blog follow these three steps:

1) Enable Remote publishing on your blog. To do this goto your writing settings page (Settings -> Writing) at the bottom of the page under remote publishing select the

Enable the WordPress, Movable Type, MetaWeblog and Blogger XML-RPC publishing protocols.

2) Set a services password. You do this on your profile manager page on your blog dashboard make sure it is strong!

3) Download an app for your platform and configure by adding your blog url, username and password.

That’s it you are mobile now.

Apps:
iPhone/iPad
Android
BlackBerry

Today we have performed a security patch for UBC Blogs. WordPress is now running the version 3.0.5 (changelog)

We’ve added a new plugin: FD Feedburner Plugin

Redirects the main feed and optionally the comments feed seamlessly and transparently to Feedburner.com.

If you are already using Feedburner.com, it’s very easy to add an email subscription box to your blog.  Check out my blog post.

Plugin Description: Control the amount of time that the feed cache is stored for. (this time is important if you want to updates external feeds more reguraly)

This update changes the available options under the Profile page. The options are Public, Edit Profile, Change Avatar, Privacy Settings and UBC Info.

Because we only have one theme (Twenty Ten) that supports the new WordPress menu manager and for those who like Cutline we now have Coraline:

A squeaky-clean theme featuring a custom menu, header, background, and layout. Coraline supports 7 widget areas (up to 3 in the sidebar, four in the footer) and featured images (thumbnails for gallery posts and custom header images for posts and pages). It includes styles for print and the Visual Editor, special styles for posts in “Asides” and “Gallery” categories, and has an optional full-width page template that removes the sidebar.

Make the switch today! Especially if you are still using the horrible default Kubrick, like seriously people Appearance -> Themes pick anything but the default it pains me it really does.

For existing user there’s a prompt in your user profile to change your username.  If you already changed your username and still seeing a warning message in your profile page please ignore it.  Please note that this only applies to user who logged in this morning. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Come in and join now!