Getting Image Colors

We were looking around for functions to get the most used colors from an image, we will be using this when we follow up our child theme creators for the twenty eleven theme, which will be released shortly.

We spent quite a while looking around the internet for some php code to find the most common colors from an image, there was code for two different libraries the Imagick and GD2, as we test with XAMPP we soon found that by default Imagick was not installed.

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Change Category Sort Order

It is strange that there is no option to reverse the display order of the posts on the category page, when we select a category the list is the same as a blog, in descending order newest to oldest.

That is great for a news or magazine website, but what if we wanted to display a series of our posts in ascending order, for a tutorail with the oldest part one first?

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Changing Background at Night

We have been looking at changing the body background on a theme based on hour, day, month, or season, in this example we will find out how to change the background in the evening.

We are using a Twenty Ten child theme to do this, so what do we need, we are using two horizontal repeat .png images 1087 wide * 1120 high, one for day and one for the night, if we whanted a different set of images, for any of the other methods we would change the quantities, names and code values to suit.

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