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The overview of the archives in the sidebar was a bit too verbose to my taste. So in a natural reflex (stupid software engineers) I studied how to write my own archive list creation function. Luckily I thought of searching for a WordPress plugin that filled my needs. Thanks again!

The default WordPress theme is so….

DEFAULT!

So I went searching on the web for nice themes and this was the one I really liked. Only a few minor tweaks were necessary thus far.

Check out the creator’s site, he has lots more where this came from. Thanks!

One item of the list. If you look to the sidebar then you might notice that there is a link to a download section again. It was a bit of a puzzle to create this one as I like my download pages to appear as simple as possible, i.e. just as file pages in my browser. But when I created the subdirectory I got a 403 Forbidden message.

After some searching I found that it could be solved in the following way:

1. Create the subdirectory in your website’s root.
2. Create a page of the same name in WordPress.
3. Add Options +indexes to the top of the .htaccess file in the root directory of your website. Make sure that the subdirectories do not contain any .htaccess files.
4. Make sure that the downloads directory and its subdirectories file permissions are set to 755 and that the permissions of the files that are stored in there are set to 644.

So now just the tedious task of validating links in my posts is left before this site is fully functional again.