TheAkiba » Danny Choo http://theakiba.com Anime News and Reviews Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:04:52 +0000 en hourly 1 Danny Choo WordPress Theme Updatedhttp://theakiba.com/danny-choo-wordpress-theme-updated/ http://theakiba.com/danny-choo-wordpress-theme-updated/#comments Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:04:53 +0000 YoU http://theakiba.com/?p=1631 I've mentioned it a while ago, so, here it is. This is an update version of the previous Danny Choo WordPress theme (learn more about this theme here, or on Danny's blog). Nothing changed in the look of the theme except I upgrade it to add several features and make it compatible to the latest version of WordPress 3.2.1. In order to use this theme, you should have a 3.0+ version installed in order to use the theme.

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]]> I’ve mentioned it a while ago, so, here it is. This is an update version of the previous Danny Choo WordPress theme (learn more about this theme here, or on Danny’s blog). Nothing changed in the look of the theme except I upgrade it to add several features and make it compatible to the latest version of WordPress 3.2.1. In order to use this theme, you should have a 3.0+ version installed in order to use the theme.

Danny Choo WordPress Theme Updated

What’s New?

The most interesting thing of theme is, as I said above, the upgrade to the latest version of WordPress. You have to use a 3.0+ version in order to use the theme and I will explain the reasons and new features below.

  • The first new feature is Post Thumbnail. If you tried out the previous version of my theme, you will know at that time (3 years ago), in order to show the thumbnail of the post, you have to either use the Custom Field, or TimThumb and I choose the former. And with the update of WordPress 2.9, a new feature Post Thumbnail is added and users can now easily define their own thumbnails. Also with this new feature, theme designer can customize the size of the image and show them accordingly.
  • The second new feature is Custom Menu, which was introduced back in 3.0. Previously, users have to hack their theme (or the theme designer provides the option panel for the users) to change the menu, with the update of WordPress 3.0, this feature was shipped. After activating the theme, go to Appearance and choose Menus, you will be able to edit the menu yourself. Please note, I did not include sub menu for this version.
  • Last but also the most exciting one is, we have an Option Panel, which means you can do everything within the back end of WordPress without going to the code. I use the Setting API method to create a simple theme option page where you can enter all the necessary information, including the featured category, custom CSS, your ads and so forth. The rest is automatically done for you. This is really an interesting feature, think I will integrate it with my current theme.

Download & Demo

Questions?

I have set up a forum for discussion of the theme. If you have any questions about coding, customization, or found a bug, please go to the forum instead of leaving comments here. I will not answer questions regarding code and customization here, so go and use the forum instead (also good for archive purpose). And remember to wrap your code/snippets (if there were any) to a <code>your code</code> tag when posting so your code is preserved.

What’s Next?

I’ve also mentioned about another Danny Choo theme, well, still under developing. And somehow busy recently and failed to contact Danny. So, stay tuned for it :) Also, if you have any requirements and features you want to add to both themes, leave a comment in the forum.

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]]> http://theakiba.com/danny-choo-wordpress-theme-updated/feed/ 5 10,000 Free Tickets to Japanhttp://theakiba.com/10000-free-tickets-to-japan/ http://theakiba.com/10000-free-tickets-to-japan/#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:45:39 +0000 YoU http://theakiba.com/?p=1543 Interesting piece of news from Danny Choo that the Japanese government is going to invit 10,000 foreigners to Japan in 2012 and pay for their travel. Certainly it is some kind of tourism and economy recover policy. The number of foreign visitors since earthquake and nuclear accident has dropped by a huge amount. The reason that we mention this news is it appears that Danny works with some Japanese government departments and he can more or less convince them to choose you first. If you are interested in this event, go and visit Danny's blog and learn more about the applying details.

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]]> Interesting piece of news from Danny Choo that the Japanese government is going to invit 10,000 foreigners to Japan in 2012 and pay for their travel. Certainly it is some kind of tourism and economy recover policy. The number of foreign visitors since earthquake and nuclear accident has dropped by a huge amount. The reason that we mention this news is it appears that Danny works with some Japanese government departments and  he can more or less convince them to choose you first. If you are interested in this event, go and visit Danny’s blog and learn more about the applying details.

The application has not yet started but you can keep an eye on the official website. Also you may want to drop by Danny’s blog and leave the appropriate information. Read through what he mentioned on the page and he will more or less increase the possibility that you will be chosen. Good luck.

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]]> http://theakiba.com/10000-free-tickets-to-japan/feed/ 3 TheAkiba V5 Blog Revamphttp://theakiba.com/theakiba-v5-blog-revamp/ http://theakiba.com/theakiba-v5-blog-revamp/#comments Tue, 05 Jul 2011 18:18:38 +0000 YoU http://theakiba.com/?p=811 You might have already noticed several changes were made to the current theme of TheAkiba. With all the changes, it is still a V5 version, not something especially new for the main design. Also, will find time to update the Danny Choo theme and make it compatible with the latest release of WordPress.

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]]> You might have already noticed several changes were made to the current theme of TheAkiba. With all the changes, it is still a V5 version, not something especially new for the main design. Also, the latest major update of WordPress was released yesterday on the Independence Day, thus I have time to do the final test on the stable version instead of the beta package running on my own MAMP. It’s a big change in UI for WordPress and it’s quite my style even though some folks don’t really appreciate it. The new features are also adorable, especially the distraction free writing panel which gives the chance to abandon my desktop writing client.

So let’s back to our topic and see what’s new in this revamp.

What’s new?

  • The first thing is about the new header which is inspired directly from KickStarter. The height of the header was decrease to 101 px which in return give more space for the content to show “above the fold”.
  • Second is about resolution. I have already introduced this feature in V4 and have brought it back to this revamp. The width of the site will be auto adjust to fit your browser resolution in 960 px or 1170 px which will be best for normal and wide screen respectively.
  • Third, have brought the latest Tweet from the footer section to the top. The most recent Tweet will be shown so you can have a look at what the site is up to. Also I occasionally retweet some good posts and you may want to check them out.

Guess that’s all about the new updates about the current theme. Another thing to mention is about the old Danny Choo Theme that I created two years ago. Will find some time to update it to compatible with the latest version of WordPress (3.2). Apart from the old theme, I will release another Danny Choo theme which was created right after the Danny Choo theme and has the same layout as the DC theme running on Danny’s blog at that time. But still, I will need to ask for Danny’s permission for the release. Will get back to you soon.

One more thing, I was always struggling from WordPress built-in comment system and Disqus. They all have their their own advantages and it’s quite a difficult decision for me to make. So I am asking my readers for the advice. Which comment system do you prefer? The default WordPress one or the Disqus comment system (the one we are currently using)?

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]]> http://theakiba.com/theakiba-v5-blog-revamp/feed/ 5 Important: Theme Bug Fixhttp://theakiba.com/important-theme-bug-fix/ http://theakiba.com/important-theme-bug-fix/#comments Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:40:25 +0000 YoU http://theakiba.com/?p=92 I found a bug in the theme yesterday. With this bug, you won't be able to feed your posts! When you click on the Feed button, the browser will return a XML error and this is really hurt. The error was caused by the blank line or space before or after the loop and this is not a uncommon error. You can learn more about this error here.

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I found a bug in the theme yesterday. With this bug, you won’t be able to feed your posts! When you click on the Feed button, the browser will return a XML error and this is really hurt. The error was caused by the blank line or space before or after the loop and this is not a uncommon error. You can learn more about this error here.

How to fix it?

I’ve reuploaded the theme package and you will have to download it again.

Here

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]]> http://theakiba.com/important-theme-bug-fix/feed/ 5 Dannychoo.com Theme by TheAkiba.comhttp://theakiba.com/dannychoocom-theme-by-theakibacom/ http://theakiba.com/dannychoocom-theme-by-theakibacom/#comments Sun, 28 Dec 2008 04:55:01 +0000 YoU http://theakiba.com/?p=85 Remember when I mentioned few days ago on Christmas Eve that I had been looking for Danny Choo's email address to inform him about the theme stuffs? Guess what, I received Danny's email one day after Christmas, surprisingly, since I hadn't sent the email yet. Danny and I were talking about the theme stuffs and we're now ready to release the theme. I changed the style of theme according to Danny's requests and made it looks much more identical to Dannychoo.com. Check out Danny's post here. Also you can check out the original one.

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Remember when I mentioned few days ago on Christmas Eve that I had been looking for Danny Choo‘s email address to inform him about the theme stuffs? Guess what, I received Danny’s email one day after Christmas, surprisingly, since I hadn’t sent the email yet.

Danny and I were talking about the theme stuffs and we’re now ready to release the theme. I changed the style of theme according to Danny’s requests and made it looks much more identical to Dannychoo.com. Check out Danny’s post here. Also you can check out the original one.

One thing more you should know about, the theme is for WordPress only.

  • Demo: It’s just what you’re looking at.
  • Download: here

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