Manji is finally prepped and ready for WordPress Version 1.5.

First of all I’d like to thank everyone who’s taken an interest in Manji. It’s been an absolute joy watching all you wonderful people who have taken the code made it your own and come up with some fantastic designs. I’ve got to setup a gallery to set up to showcase all your wonderful designs, it’s on my to-do list I promise you.

It’s taken me 3 months to finally reach this stage where I can leave the code in peace knowning all the fixes that I wanted to get done have been completed and it’s finally the way I want it. This is in no small part thanks to everyone who downloaded it and commented on the theme. (BTW the theme has been downloaded over 4000 times since it was launched on the 5th of December 2004, so again thanks for all the kind words and support).

1. I've tweaked the general font from Arial to Verdana. I'm in that mood right now so I've decided to go with that.
2. The top navigation bar now automatically pics up the pages created. All you have to do now is create them and they'll pop up in your navigation menu. This is using WordPress's wp_list_pages tag.

<li>The template now remembers who visited and commented previously. It's the same little javascript found in action on BK. I like this little script so I've included it in here.</li>
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WP’s nextpage function now works for the individual pages as well. It was just a missing tag really, so can’t really consider that a bug.

Apart from the above the major change for me is that the help manual has gone up to version 0.2. I've added 2 more pages and one thing I'm really happy about finally getting done is the structure mockup. For all those of you out there that are having trouble understanding the structure of CSS, this should help you understand everything very clearly. I've not actually made it look pretty, that'll come in future editions. This was one of my original ideas and I'm really glad to be able to offer it to people, with the promise that one for the typography will come as well. I think this is something that theme developers should spend some time on, because I remember what it was like to start off with this CSS stuff and be completely overwhelmed by what was going on. This little jpg should help you all in your question for CSS knowledge.

I don’t think I’ll be editing the code any more. The only reason the code is ever going to change from my POV is if Root wants to revisit the code and sort it out, in the only way he knows how. Otherwise all my attention (with respect to Manji that is) is going to be focused on the manual, Manji2 and other flavours, oh yes ^_^.