I’m currently working on a new WordPress theme for my blog. It’s called Sturdy Sector and it’s available under GPLv3 on Github at:
It’s still a work in progress, but for me to easier see what needs to be fixed I have installed it here.
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Updated My Blog
Some days ago I felt that my blog was really slow and sluggish, so I looked into that problem. I deleted plugins that I didn’t use and I installed the cache plugin W3 Total Cache. So it should run much better now, which I think it has done during these few days of testing since the installation.
When I did the performance tweaking, I also realised that the theme monochrome that I used was kinda ugly and boring. So I went to WordPress.org and found a really nice and free theme called Tarski. As always I had to do some tweaking to the code to feel satisfied; in this case was the largest change the randomizing banner. I hope you like the theme and find it pretty. 
How to Use Double Dash in WordPress
To make WordPress stop converting two dashes into a single one, follow this guide:
- Open wp-includes/formatting.php.
- Navigate to line 56.
- Change line 56 and 57 from:
$static_characters = array_merge(array('---', ' -- ', '--', ' - ', 'xn–', '...', '``', '\'\'', ' (tm)'), $cockney); $static_replacements = array_merge(array('—', ' — ', '–', ' – ', 'xn--', '…', $opening_quote, $closing_quote, ' ™'), $cockneyreplace);to:
$static_characters = array_merge(array(' - ', 'xn–', '...', '``', '\'\'', ' (tm)'), $cockney); $static_replacements = array_merge(array(' – ', 'xn--', '…', $opening_quote, $closing_quote, ' ™'), $cockneyreplace); - Done!
Remove “An automated WordPress update has failed to complete” error message
I just updated WordPress from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1 manually, because it didn’t work to automatically update it. When I was finished I was stuck with this message on the admin panel:
An automated WordPress update has failed to complete
This problem was easily solved by deleting the file .maintenance in the website’s root directory.