dekay.org

As you may have noticed Ⅰ am redesigning the site a bit. In this little series Ⅰ will be posting some tips and tricks how certain things get done here.

You may have noticed the addition of a third column — or rather a second sidebar. This was done by utilizing a variant of k2 called „[3 Column K2](http://www.3columnk2.com „3 Column k2″)“. In these sidebars Ⅰ have chosen to actually use the widgets for adding and customizing stuff (rather than editing the source files as Ⅰ did in my previous attempts of adapting k2 to my needs).

Also you might find that little entry from my [last.fm](http://www.last.fm/„Last.fm – The Social Music Revolution“) journal interesting. It got placed there via a php-widget with the following code (thanks to Jeriko One for [the code](http://www.i-jeriko.de/2006⁄04/04/import-rss-feeds-into-your-wordpress-blog/„Import RSS feeds into your WordPress blog – Jeriko One“)):

<h2 class="widgettitle"><a href="http://www.last.fm/user/dekay/journal/"
    title="Syndicate as RSS">last.fm journal</a></h2>
<span class="metalink">
    <img src="http://www.last.fm/favicon.ico" alt="RSS" />
</span>
<?php require_once (ABSPATH . WPINC . '/rss-functions.php'); ?>
<?php $today = current_time('mysql', 1); ?>
<?php
$rss = @fetch_rss('http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/user/dekay/journals.rss');
if ( isset($rss->items) && 0 != count($rss->items) ) { ?>
<ul>
    <?php
    $rss->items = array_slice($rss->items, 0, 1);
    foreach ($rss->items as $item ) {
        ?>
    <li>
        <a href='<?php echo wp_filter_kses($item['link']); ?>'>
        <?php echo wp_specialchars($item['title']); ?></a> <br/>
        <small>—
        <?php echo human_time_diff( strtotime($item[’pubdate’], time())); _e(’ago’); ?>
        </small><br/>
        <?php echo  _e($item['description']) ?>
    </li>

    <?php
    }
}
    ?>
</ul>

The above source code display with all its color coding glory was produced by [textmate](http://macromates.com/„TextMate — The Missing Editor for Mac OS X“), theme by [Thomas Aylott](http://subtlegradient.com/„subtleGradient“) — even though it seems not all color markups make it.

If anyone wonders why this blog has been reverted to plain k2: Ⅰ just upgraded to the current version of k2 (0.9.1) from the old beta 2… and some things broke. No matter, Ⅰ don’t feel like re-designing the site now, so here it goes… brand new k2, but just the plain old look.