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Theme Switch and Preview Plugin
With this plugin you can switch to a totally different blog theme when you are logged in to your WordPress dashboard. It's great for theme development as you can tweak the templates online without breaking stuff for visitors. You can also use it for presentations, to show off various templates. I have added a widget to make this easier.
New in 0.6.0: This plugin has now three basic configurations:
- Only admin: This is useful for theme developers and to preview themes on live sites.
- Only with passkey: Send your clients preview links. They won't need an account on your blog for this to work.
- Everybody: Theme switching for everybody.
There is a shortcode that has two modes:
Text link cloud demo
Screenshot link cloud demo
Download the plugin from it's WordPress.org page.
WordPress plugin demos are disabled as I don't use WordPress on this site any more.
219 comments
I just found out that a similary plugin already seems to exist, see this page. Well, more choice is a good thing I guess.
I really love this plugin, but it would even be greater if you can set a date that the theme has to change automatically.
Hi - I would like to use this plugin however even when I activate the widget it does not get displayed in my sidebar (I am logged in as an admin). Other widgets work fine. Any idea what could be wrong?
That's odd. What wordpress version do you use, do you have some sort of caching enabled? Have a look at the plugin's settings page as well, maybe "Who should see the theme switch widget" is not set? If not please report back.
Hey nicolas.. cool plugin - cheers.. maybe you got a little answer for me.. does the plugin change parts in the database?
Hey.. thanks for the cool plugin its working like clockwork!
Great plugin! I want to allow all logged in users the ability to customize the site by CSS style switching. Your widget would work perfectly but unfortunately do to the design of the blog I am not permitting any widgets. What code could I add to my header for example which would allow the same functionality?
Thanks a million!
Hi Pete, did you read this post? That could be modified to check which $user_ID is the current one I guess.
Hi Nicolas,
i'm using 2.7.1 and when I activate the plugin Worpress doesn't works. Appears an error that says something like "you do not have permision to enter this page".
I hope you know how to solve this.
Thank you
thanks for this plugin. I would welcome if visitors could switch the themes as well. I have a website with free WP templates and also it could deny some themes which I don't want to show because I am using WP MU platform.
nkthemeswitch works great except for one problem: When adding a new page, the template options remain those of the active template, rather than the one I am editing using nkthemeswitch.
Would be great if this could be fixed. Great plugin.
Wondering if your plugin has the ability to use URLs to display a certain theme. I'd like to be able to send my clients to a URL that automatically displays the theme I've built for them. Can't figure out how to do it. I tried something like: http://www.mysite.com/demo/index.php?wptheme=Classic
But, it doesn't work. Any help you can provide?
Good idea... maybe i can implement it this weeked... no promises though, rather busy lately.
Love your theme switch and preview plugin.
Did you ever get the chance to work on the ability to use URLs to switch themes?
It would be useful to be able to have multiple themes for multiple user levels.
Different widgets is another complication... maybe take a look for wp2.8+ as things are changing?
I wanted to say thanks for the plugin - I actually modified it to perform a browser check instead of a user level check to display a legacy template to IE6 users. Works like a charm!
Thanks for this plug, But only registered users ? I want anyone select the template in this plugin ?
Is there a way to get this plugin to order installed themes alphabetically in the drop-down?
Attribute minimization is forbidden () it should say () this will help validating your code
Hi Nicolas,
can this plugin be adapted to display a different theme depending on the page template being used? I want to display a different theme for blogposts and keep the static part of the site under a different theme.
Thanks for a great plugin!
Oh, and you should probably look at this page, it sounds like what you want is already possible in WordPress without a plugin.
Hi Peter, it's certainly possible to modify the plugin to do that. But the plugin wasn't really designed to be used for all visitors, I'd have to test lots of things if they break, like caching etc... There's a comment above by Tucker and he says his modifications work, so there's some hope.
Hi Nicolas, Thanks for your reply!
I did see Tucker's comment above - did he ever send a patch to you? He didn't supply a website, or a way to contact him. It sounds like his adaptation should work similar to what I'm trying to do.
What I'm looking to do is a bit different then setting a different template inside the theme directory that looks different form the rest of the site. I want blog posts to display using a theme that resides in a different directory. That would mean being able to check to see if the page is a posts page or not and based on that activate a different theme for that page.
Your plugin works fantastic for theme development btw, great find!
0.5.0 Does NOT work with child themes, in the theme selection dropdown all the child themes are listed using the name of their parent theme.
First of all, thank you for this handy plugin.
As John Morris asked above, having a link to a specific theme would be a fantastic idea. Is-there a way to do that?
Salut Gerald,
that feature is already built in. Check the plugin options page to see all available switch/preview links. They are at the bottom of that page.
Nicolas, this is really great job.
How to use the passkey feauture? www.domain.com/998464354984655416313ds3f318
So after the domain goes the passkey?
Hi Nicolas,
I'm looking for theme switch plugin that doesn't redirect the user to the index page of the new theme but keeps them where they are.
Is this an easy modification to your plugin? I'm a gold-certified copy-and-paster but not a php dev!
Also being able to exclude certain themes would be brilliant - as I think Wordpress' auto upgrade adds the default and classic themes back into the theme folder if they're not present.
Cheers, Gareth.
Hi Gareth,
I didn't realize the new widget does redirect to the home page, I'll fix that as soon as I can.
Excluding themes sounds like a good idea, I will add it to the plugin.
I am interested in excluding some themes too, is this something you are working on?
Actually, the exclude option works now, you can get the development version of the plugin at http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/nkthemeswitch.zip
I will make a formal release as soon as the translations are ready.
I think I will add the option to exclude the default and the classic theme for the next release. I probably won't add fancy features like a selection which themes to choose from though.
Ok - solved this myself by adding the links to new themes manually rather than via the widget (not using the _blank).
Do these still have the rules set in the options page applied to them eg. cookie setting and expiry?
Made a new bugfix release, 0.6.1.1. Adding Status: unpublished to the header of a theme's style.css file will now exclude that theme from being shown in the theme cloud as well.
When I click on the click on the screenshot, the Theme does not change. It just links back to my actual site.
The URL in the address bar displays like http://domain.com/blog&theme=Theme1
@melanie says :
i undstand, you can open file : Plugin/inc/themeswitch
at line :169
$r .= '&';
Change it to : $r .= '/?';
demo : http://www.templatelib.com/demo/?theme=WordPress+Default
Well, that would break on the next plugin upgrade as this code won't change for now. I see it could be wrong if a blog has a static frontpage, the cloud is on that static frontpage, and the blog doesn't use permalinks. It would be great if melanie could comment.
1. I'm new to wordpress
2. I have a custom theme that worked before being modifying to wordpress - it now has been modified to wordpress
3. the dashboard > new themes > upload loads the zip file but there are problems
3. I downloaded your themeswitch plugin to see if I can identify the error but I don't know how to use the plugin -- could you possibly advise (is it typical to get such problems or is it just me?)
Thanks so much for this plug-in. I LOVE IT!
I would like to comment on a small thing that I noticed with it. I use it as a WIDGET on the side panel ... not with images of screen shots ... Just the drop-down selecting tool.
Here's the small problem I noticed. If I'm currently viewing the base URL of my website and switch to a different theme, then the plug-in makes the theme switch alright, but it throws me at a particular article only location ... it doesn't make the switch at the base URL that I was at before the switch.
I also noticed that if I'm viewing a specific category and use the plug-in to switch the theme, then it again will switch themes, but leaves me at a randomly selected article ... not viewing the category I was at when I made the switch.
For me, this is only a small annoyance, and I still LOVE THIS PLUG-IN. I'm also only 3 months into WordPress as well and love it as well. But it would be great if I could have the plug-in make the switch and be viewing exactly the same content afterwards as before!
I have not tinkered with any of the code for Theme Switch ... but have done extensive customization in other places. Let me know if it's possible that this may be on my side and not occurring with anyone else. I also have Elegant Box as my default theme ... which itself has several optional styles that are selectable ... could it be possible that this is interfering with the Theme Switch Plug-in not matching the exact URL during it's use?
I certainly do not want to you to spend an enormous time on this ... it's not THAT important to me ... hopefully this might be a quick fix. :)
thanks again for the time and energy spent contributing this plug-in to the community,
best regards,
Finally found a few minutes, I'm uploading the fix right now. Thanks for reporting this Richard!
Hi Nicolas,
Thanks so much for your efforts; however, the fix does not seem to be working for my site.
Is Version 0.6.1.3 the latest version?
I tried a clean install by deleting the plugin and re-installing using the WordPress automatic install wizard.
I have settings set for allowing anyone to switch the theme. Still, the main problem is that if you are at the BASE URL of RichImages.net and perform a switch theme request, then you will be thrown to a particular article ( looks to be the oldest article for the current month ).
Again, if this is an easy fix, greatly appreciated. If not, then it can be placed very low on my priorities.
best regards,
Hi Richard, thanks for the report. I'll look into this ASAP!
Thanks ... works great ( hate to run you through version numbers :) )
Base URL works perfect through a switch, ... so does viewing an individual article; Switching will from the base URL or a particular article will maintain consistency after the switch.
( Testing Feedback: Viewing or and switching themes throws you at some particular post ... but I doubt 95% of viewers will ever notice this, as they probably switch themes some time before selecting a category or monthly archive! )
Thanks for the updated version!
Oh right. This is because wp thinks it's on the page that shows the first article when you're on any list page. This is quite annoying. It's fixed now, hopefully for good :-) Thanks for reporting it!
By the way, both fixes were basically one-liners, so no worries :-D
Hi, thanks for great plugin. It helps me many times.
I've made Ukrainian translation - http://wordpress.co.ua/download/plugins/theme_switc_uk_translations.zip
Thanks again!
Hi Nicolas - Okay, here's a weird one. I installed your plugin (0.6.1.5) into my personal blog (running 2.9.1) and it activated okay and switched between my installed themes without a problem. However...(isn't there always a however?)
When it's activated and I attempt to add a new theme via "Themes/Add New" and click "Install" on any theme I wish to try, it opens up the install pop-up box for "Nice Wee Theme" only rather than the theme I want to install (yup, "Nice Wee Theme" is listed in the WP themes directory, BTW).
To clarify, when "Theme Switch and Preview" plugin is activated, no matter what new theme I try to install via 2.9.1's add new theme function, it always pops up the install dialog box for "Nice Wee Theme" without exception.
Note: I can't actually install "Nice Wee Theme" though as hitting the Install button takes me to a "Are you sure you want to do this" page with a "Try again" link that takes me back to the same page.
Disabling the plugin via it's options doesn't solve the problem but deactivating it returns everything to normal and I can add new themes as usual.
Just to make sure I installed 0.6.1.5 on an online test site also running 2.9.1 and had the same results. All my error logs are clear so no info there.
Any ideas?
Hi Nicolas,
Just upgraded to the latest and am having the following problem:
I have no widget to drag to the sidebar to allow users to switch themes.
Hi Nicolas,thanks for your contribution.
Do you know a french traduction of this plugin ?
Hi great plugin. Glad to find it!
Totally newbie question with this, but can something like this plugin be used to develop not only a different theme (ie look and feel) but a completely different site with new content, areas etc?
In other words, I have a very basic default theme currently live that amounts to a basic information page and that a new site is coming. Using your plugin, can I be developing this new theme with a new look and feel as well as all new pages, areas, page templates. In other words I want to hide the new content as well as the theme. Is that possible with this plugin? Or will I have to make pages/posts active/inactive as I go through development in conjunction with the theme switcher plugin?
Sorry for such a basic question, but trying something I haven't done before and hoping this plugin can help. Many thanks for any help!
Hi. Hmmmmm. There are various ways of doing what you describe. The easiest would be to hide new pages/posts as you say.
I would probably make a second WordPress install, create the new site there, and then move it to the live site.
The WordPress 3.0 release will make all of this much easier, as you will be able to have multiple blogs in one install. I think it's scheduled for release in march.
I am trying to add this great plugin to my tabs on my homepage. I have to call it, but I don't have any clue how.
[nkthemeswitch] doesn't work. It has to be php. What code can I use?
just to report that problem described by Kirk M reproduces very well on all my 2.9.1 WP and latest plugin installs... theme offered for Install is different, though :-)
Hi Nicolas:
Ran into a potential small bug ... I'm using WP 2.9.2
When I try and install a new theme using the internal WP auto install, Wordpress always gives me the very 1st theme "vermilion" no matter what I chose.
As soon as I deactivate "Theme Switch & Preview" everything works fine
I'm trying to use this plugin with little luck. Every time I go here:
To preview/switch to WordPress Default 1.6 with little luck.
My WordPress installation lives in iansherr.com/clips
Any idea what might be happening? I have SuperCache turned off, and your plugin settings set for everyone.
Any ideas on what to do?
Hi Ian,
there are theme switch links on the settings page of the plugin. Do they work?
Hello Nicolas,
Thanks for your speedy reply. The answer is unfortunately no.
I have "exclude default themes" disabled. Yet, buttons such as
I tried different permutations of that just to see if perhaps there was a weird bug. So, I tried:
do not work either.
I tried another theme switch link off the plugin page as well:
which also does not work.
I've also tried activating a different theme and then trying the theme switch links again with no success.
So, I know it's not any customization I did with the theme.
Hello again Nicolas,
I found the problem. I'd set the cookie expire for 999999 seconds. When I brought it down to a more reasonable time, like 2 hours, it suddenly worked.
Thanks for your help and cheers.
- ian
Hi Ian, I think the initial value might have been too high for browsers to handle it properly. I'll check the specs and do some validation. IIRC a value of 0 means forever, not sure though.
Hi Nicolas,
I really admire your work but I have a problem with the plugin I am using wp 2.9.2 and the switching works ok while I am logged as admin and just I choose the theme I want from the drop down menu it changes but if I am not logged in when I choose a theme the page refreshes quickly and nothing happens I have to reload the page manual in order to theme changes .
please Nicolas could you help me fast cause really need it to work.
thanks for you time
Nic, I found something weird.
I got 2 themes.
When I set theme A as default, the plugin works well. But if I set theme B as default, no matter admin or user with passkey the page always redirect to theme B, no more theme A
Thanks Nicolas, but the redirect happens only when I am logged in but if a visitor it does what you sow.
This is a very good plugin. But there's one problem: it isn't compatible with WP's theme editor, it gives error when I try to save the edited theme files. I have to deactivate the Theme Switch plugin, then the theme editor works, and reactivate the plugin.
I hope that you can fix this in the next version!
Hello, can you tell me how to display the mode screenshot in a template? I tried but it doesn't work. Thank you, Martina.
Thanks, Nicolas,
I'd like to show it in the footer.php, not on a page or post, is that possible somehow?
(wordpress took my code out of the last comment, I used: nkthemeswitch_shortcode( 'mode=screenshot' )
Thank you so much, that works like charm!
themeswitch makes problems in wp 2.9 :( i can't edit themes in admin-panel. maybe global var $dir is used?!
Have just installed this great plugin on www.mywordpress.co.uk .
When using the widget there is no widget title .No settings in the admin area or in the widget admin.
Any help would be appreciated
With this plugin, can you change around the css styling without visitors seeing the changes?
Hoping you fix that Edit Themes glitch soon!
Thanks for a great Wordpress plug-in.
Have just upgraded to Version 0.7.3.1 .I see now that the default themes are now excluded.
Now what I was wondering is would you be able to incorperate a way to select what themes to exclude rather then it being hard coded?
On my site I have modded your code so I can exclude the BuddyPress theme .
Hopefully this makes sense.
My theme doesn't use widget and I was wondering if you can provide me the template code?
Greetings from Turkey!
We've installed Wordpress into /wordpress/ directory. And your Theme Switch plugin doesn't working now.
How i can run Theme Switch plugin on our blog?
Thanks in advance.
Hi there, I've been using this for a while and I've developed a bit of a bug and I'm not sure if it's just my code or something else, but if I go from theme 1 -> theme 2 and then back to theme 1, the page will refresh but the theme won't have changed. Going theme1 -> theme 2 -> theme 3 -> theme 1 works though. The site in question is http://designtest.techgremlin.com/
To be honest, I have no idea what could be going on on your site. Does the problem happen in different browsers? Do you have an other theme-related plugins? Or ones that do redirects?
Hi Nicholas, I installed the plugin, enabled theme switching but don't see any tool or control for switching themes. Where would I find that?
Hello Cameron, you need to use the widget or the shortcode to display the cloud.
Thanks. That's working now. But I have one other problem. Even though I am logged in as admin in WP, I can only see the widget when it is set for "everyone" to see. I only want admin to see it while I do some theme customizing. Any idea what might be the problem?
Hello Nicolas,
How would I set a cookie that never expires?
Thanks in advance
Hi Michelle, that's not possible. I don't know off-hand what the maximum cookie expiration time is, just set it to one year or so.
60*60*24*365 = 31536000
I guess that should be enough.
Thank you Nicolas, that worked like a charm :-)
Other than that, is there also a possibility to switch also "just" between style.css's?
Hi, great plug-in! Can not figure out though how to style the cloud created with shortcode. I see that a filetr creates a stylesheet but? In my theme it shows up as very tightly spaced links which is a bit hard to read. What can I use for CSS-styling? Would prefer a list when using for testing - showing others different styling.
Hi Helen, you should install firebug for firefox. Then, right-click on the element you want to style and at the bottom right you can see where the styles are defined.
I'd guess your theme is responsable for styling them.
Thanks Nicolas! I had searched poorly for the classname.
Found .nkthemeswitch-cloud-text and styled it in the theme style.css with no problem. Only, to make a list of the links instead of cloud have to do some kind of sorting/array not in the css. But after styling I thimk it´s good enough anyway. Makes my life easier showing different styles to co-workers/clients.
Hi Helen. Hmm, I'm not sure what you mean, what kind of sorting do you need?
I would like to display the different theme-links as an ul list instead of a "cloud" for greater clarity. Have put Themeswitch in its own page while testing/showing/developing and some of my visitors seems to be the very stressed-likes-powerpoint-types ;D
But I think even those should be able to see the different links now with colored backgrounds and lots of spacing (margin/padding).
To make a list instead I would have to getin to the code instead I guess? Or any options for that?
Btw, as a quick fix you could probably do something like blah { display: list-item; }.
That would be perfect! It would make Themeswitch complete, for my purposes anyway. There is the widget with dropdown but it doesnt seem to work for all users and havent had time to figure out why. Sometimes I dont want it in all sidebars either but maybe on a protected page that I can remove easily and also have comments on for direct feedback.
But of course! Tried it earlier, but in the wrong place so I thought it didnt work. I am too short of time to think these weeks, must stop and breathe slowly... Thanks :)
Oh, you're totally right. I just had a look at the code and the plugin doesn't produce a list, which it obviously should :-?
I will update that code asap and make the list markup an option. I will probably make it the default choice in a future release.
Thank you for the upgrade! Now it´s perfect with the choice of cloud or ul. Very easy to use.
hii Nicolas
I installed the plugin and it said plugin activated but i cant see anythin...must hav done sumthin wrong...i m usin wp 2.9...pls reply
Hello Nicolas,
installed the plugin running WP 2.9.2 - all is working fine. Maybe for further versions, there could be a normal formating the widget as elements. I'm using this plugin for switching just two styles, and so the tags are not ideal to be styled with css. So is there yet an option or code-snipet for calling the switch, with links to the themes?
Thanks for short answer, sincerely Zwille.
Hi nicolas,
I love and use your plugin, but I have one sugestion.
Using screenchots with the names of the themes will be great and usefull.
What do you think about it? Can you add this in nexts upgrades??
Thank you!
Hi Chris, good idea! I'll add that feature as soon as possible!
Hi Nicolas and thanks for this plugin.
I also have a real need for the theme titles to appear under the thumbnails so clients can tell me which one they want installed.
Feature added, the new release will be available in a few minutes. I had to modify the nkthemeswitch_cloud function, so test the new release if you use that function in your theme.
I added documentation on how to use that function to the readme.txt as well.
Upgraded to v0.8.0 and now new theme doesn't display - looks like it's not reading the CSS file.
Having a hard time understanding how the passkey preview links work. I have two generated links there already. What steps do I take to provide my client a link to see the unactive site being worked on?
nice plugin..planning to use on the site
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Weiterhin super plugin! Nur konnte ich nicht herausfinden was folgende Option bewirkt (nach der ich dachte gesucht zu haben ;o):
Das Umschalten von themes im Admin-Bereich aktivieren (für theme-spezifische Optionen)?
viele Grüße und bitte weiterhin WP bereichern...
Hi Nicolas, i tried to use your nice code in a multisite wordpress, but nkthemeswicth insist to show all the themes installed instead of alloweds ones.
in multisite you can enable a theme globally or locally (is some tricky but it work, see http://wordpress.org/support/topic/417996) so when you use nkthemeswitch it show more themes that appear in one blog menu appeareance/themes (theme.php).
may be it's needed to use get_ALLOWED_themes(); instead of get_themes();
i try to change it but i get a error and i don't know what's missing. have you any idea?
here from messi land, we hope a nice and fair play to saturday game.
(nice, to us)....
perhaps you could check this:
cool plugins,,,
I really wish it didn't pull every theme but just the ones enabled for the blog that the plugin is activated on, I've got some themes that I just don't want people seeing.
Secondly, I might be missing it, but on the front end is there not an option to go back to the previous (original) theme? That would help if you're using the plugin to display available themes to potential clients
There are various ways to exclude themes, see the FAQ. I'm not sure what you mean by go back? You can pick the default theme from the widget or the tag cloud. Or set the timeout.
Thanks, sorry hadn't read the FAQ.
But on the second question, I swear on Twenty Ten after selecting a different theme in the widget drop down there was no way of returning to the original theme or selecting another one except by just waiting for the timeout and refreshing the page.
firstly,this is really a wonderful plugin,but how can we change the place but the widget
Hi Nicolas.
No requests or questions here.
Just wanted to let you know that your plugin is great!
I took this day to find me a plugin that showcases the themes on my site. So I reviewed 9 different plugins, and yours is by far better and simpler to use than the others and it simply does the job it's supposed to do.
Great job!
Hi again, Nicolas.
After using your great plugin for a few days I do have a few requests :-) :
I'd love it if the looks of the theme cloud was configurable.
What I mean is instead of showing all the themes in one long column it would be nice to be able to present them in a matrix of rows and columns and to define how many themes will show in a row, and let it automatically set the number of rows.
So, for instance, if I'd like to present 16 themes, and I defined 5 themes in a row, than what will be shown is 3 full rows and a forth row with just one theme.
Another thing that can make an improvement is defining the spacing between the themes.
Now when there are two adjacent themes with similar colors it's hard to spot where one stops and the other begins. A bigger space will solve that easily.
If you could do these additions sometime it would be great and if not the plugin is still great and I'm still using it :-)
Hi Amit,
hm, I think you can do all of this through CSS?
I wouldn't know, I don't know CSS.
Is there a specific file I'm supposed to edit?
Sorry for the newbie question.
Hi Amit, here's a list of sites that can help you:
http://wsc.opera.com/ , www.htmlhelp.com/ , http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ , www.brainjar.com/ , www.htmldog.com/ , http://css.maxdesign.com.au/
Also, install Firefox + Firebug. Good luck!
You probably want to edit your theme's CSS file.
After activating this plugin I'm greeted with the message "insufficient rights to view this page" trying to login to wp-admin. I have to delete the "nkthemeswitch" folder from plugins via FTP to regain access to the admin-area. Running 3.0.1
Hm, that's very odd. I'll try to reproduce, but insufficient rights is an indicator that you tried to run some admin action, not simply log in.
Yes, I tried to log in as admin. When logged in as admin and then activating the plugin, when I click on another link within the admin panel I get the same message.
Ok. Do you use any plugin that has to do with user/group permissions? I doubt I'll be able to reproduce your problem here, but I hope I'll get the time to look into it over the weekend.
Update: I did a clean install of wordpress 3.0.1 and your plugin worked just as announced, so I guess the problem lies elsewhere. It's probably a good idea to do a clean install from time to time anyway!
Hi, thanks for looking into this. I have disabled all other plugins (none of them related to users/groups), but the behavior persists. But only after clicking one of the "Open theme in new window"-links. As soon as the other window is opened (still default theme though, not the one I clicked), I'm locked out of admin and have to delete the nkthemeswitch-directory via FTP to regain access. Strange indeed!
Hi Nicolas,
I've been using your plugin for two months now with FireFox and it's great.
But today I entered my site with Internet Explorer for the first time and noticed that the themes don't change when I click on them.
Have you ever encountered this before?
Is there a solution?
Hi Nicolas
This looks really great. I'm going to download and give this a try! I'm working on my first theme so I don't have more than one at the moment, I was wondering...
Is it possible to have this work as a "demo bar" at the top of the screen like you see on many premium theme sites like WooThemes? You know, where there's a dropdown menu or similar as opposed to the sidebar?
If your plugin already offers this, I apologize for not checking but if it doesn't, would it be easy-ish to create something like this with CSS do you think?
Many thanks for what looks like an awesome plugin :)
Hello Scott,
hmmm, yes I guess you could display the theme cloud at the top through CSS. I haven't built such a feature for the plugin though. If you don't want to depend on the widget or shortcode you could write a short plugin that hooks into wp_footer() and always injects the switch markup there. Basically, add_action( 'wp_footer, 'your_callback_function' );
Hi, great idea for a plugin. However, when I activate the plugin, I get nothing but a blank screen.
I went back to the dashboard by entering the wp-admin link directly in the address bar, and the dashboard works fine.
Theme Switch's settings can be accessed. However, if I try to go to the Plugins page, again, I get a blank page.
That's very odd, no, I have no idea what's going on. Maybe you could try to deactivate all other plugins temporarily, maybe one of them interferes with mine. Just a guess.
Hi Nicolas. I've discovered the plugin that's conflicting. It's the Wordpress.com stats plugin, here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/
The stats plugin is excellent, as is yours. I'd hate to lose one over the other. Any idea what the problem might be?
I'm using the latest version of WP.
Hi Nicolas, just wanted to give you an update on this. Turns out it wasn't a plugin problem at all (yours or anyone else's). It was actually my webhost's PHP memory limit which was set far too low. Have since increased the limit, which has put an end to blank pages altogether.
Once again, thanks for a great plugin. I find it invaluable for tweaking and testing my website's design.
Thanks for the update! I'll try to have a look in the near future.
This plugin looks promising. :)
I'm trying to customize a complex RocketTheme theme on my live blog, but I'm not sure how to switch themes in the admin area. I can switch the theme on the frontend, but it results in an error message (Fatal error: Call to a member function displayHead() on a non-object in /wp-content/themes/rt_kinetic_wp/index.php on line 13) which I assume would go away if I could "activate" the theme in the backend.
Is there a switch in the backend, or is it supposed to automatically switch in the backend once switched in the frontend? If the latter is the case, then I suspect that the RocketTheme theme is just too complex for this plugin. :/
Hi - love the plugin. One issue though - I'm setting up a site that has three backgrounds selectable by the visitor. The plugin is working great - but I'm using Child themes (Of Twenty Ten) where I'm modifying the backgrounds. Obviously it means that where WP or Twenty Ten is updated, so are my new themes etc.
So I've made my three sub directories:
and they all show up in your drop down, and work fine. GREAT!
** BUT ** Twenty ten itself also shows up. I don't want this to appear... how do I ensure this doesn't happen?
Just wondering - if I set the Cookie expire (seconds) to either zero or leave it blank will the cookie NOT expire? I'd like to allow visitors to set their preferred background and have it stay on that indefinately.
Thanks in advance...
Hi Nicolas, I've been using your plugin with FireFox 4.0 and it's great. But if I try it with Chrome or IE it doesn't work. The themes don't change when I click on them. I think that there is a problem with caching but I haven't installed any cache pulgin... my Cookie lifetime is ste to 1 sec. Is there a solution?
Hi Nic, I'm wondering if this could be the plugin I'm looking for. The is I want to have a theme switcher, but the problem about theme switchers you need to manually drag back again the widgets from inactive widgets to where it should be once you change the theme from one to another... I have tried your plugin yet, I'm asking you first if this could be the thing that I'm looking for... thanks
Hi Nicolas, great plugin however i have one problem or should I say question. does the user need to be logged in for it to work. At the top you say
Only with passkey: Send your clients preview links. They won't need an account on your blog for this to work.
If I am logged in the link works if i am not it just shows the default theme. Am I doing something wrong?
Link am using http://www.ewca.org.uk/?theme=Academica&passkey=18445934774e6a21826726b
Hi Nicolas, great plugin! I have a small issue though. When someone besides the admin switches the theme, it stays switched even when they log out. It stays switched on their computer until they clear their cache. Is this normal, or did I do something wrong? I would like my users to have their chosen themes displayed when they log in.
Hi Nicolas, I've been trying to use your plugin but the theme stays switched on the computer no matter who logs in. Also, their theme is only changed on their computer, meaning if they log in somewhere else the theme will switch back to default.
For example, on my computer I chose a pink theme. When my brother logged in he chose a green theme (on the same computer). Then, when I logged in as myself I see the green theme instead of the pink one I chose.
Hello Nicolas,
I'm currently developing a WordPress site to replace my hard-coded site -- which is basically gutted except for a construction sign. In testing your plugin, I've uploaded Wordpress and two themes. I implemented your plugin on the first theme that I uploaded and configured it in the settings page. Then I switched to the other theme while in your plugin settings page and added the theme switcher to that theme as well. When I view that site, click the switch to go to the other theme, the switch widget is gone when I get there. The plugin exists in both themes when looking on the admin sidebar, but it's either on one or the other of the themes, but not on both. What am I doing wrong? In the theme where the switch is missing, it's not even in the widget storage area on the left side. If I remove the switch from the other theme, then it will be available to install when I go back to the previous theme. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.
Hi Nicolas,
Thanks for a great widget, has a question:
How is it possible to remove a thema that I do not want to appear on the widget ? Is it possible to arrange this ? Then is this great for my side ... stefan
Hi Nicolus,
Just read above you have stopped working on this plugin but it does continue to work in the new 3.4! Thank you...
I just noticed a small issue in the rendering from the "Widget Title" field'd data in the configuration of the plugin. The title I am using has an apostrophe which is causing a backslash to render. e.g. \'
Could this be the server setup or the plugin?
Hello first, thank you so much for your amazing plugin :) I've some question, I've try install plugin at http://lost-sheep.us/wordpress ( at footer)
I don't know why link of Switch theme not going to my main page, but it going to some blog post (ex. http://lost-sheep.us/wordpress/2010/06/05/post-with-picture/?theme=Twenty+Eleven) it not going to something like http://lost-sheep.us/wordpress/?theme=Twenty+Eleven
Thanks :) my wordpress is latest version, work with your 0.9.0.3 plugin


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- FeatureUsers slow to embrace storage automation
- FeatureHDS reinvents high-end arrays
- FeatureBackup Vendors Tweak License Model
- FeatureMaking disk-based backup work
- FeatureFirst Look: Acopia Networks' ARX1000 and ARX6000 switches
- FeatureWAN Boosters Bring Remote Storage Home
- FeatureFree for the Taking
- FeatureHands-On Review: Onaro SANscreen 2.5.2
- FeatureStorage at risk
- FeatureBest practices: Tackling storage provisioning
- FeatureSnapshot: Backup up desktop data
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Making disk-based backup work
Adding low-cost disk to a backup environment can ease a host of backup woes. Here's how to find the disk-based backup approach that works best for your shop.
- James Damoulakis, GlassHouse Technologies
- Bill Peldzus, Cloud Technology Partners
|Does your backup software do disk?
Where disk can help
In survey after survey, users cite the same reasons for adopting disk as a backup medium: faster nightly backups, shorter restore times, better reliability of backup and restore and better overall manageability. Here's how disk can help realize these efficiencies.
- Faster nightly backups. The impact of disk on individual backup jobs can vary dramatically. There are many potential causes for bottlenecks in the backup process, many of which are unrelated to whether disk is part of the picture. If these issues are causing your backup problems, just adding disk won't help. However, disk can help most with performance problems, such as queued jobs unable to start because of resource constraints and file servers that have many small files that can't keep a tape drive streaming.
- Shorter restore times. In many environments, the majority of restore requests are for individual files. Recovery performance for a small number of files is usually not a problem in a tape environment--assuming, of course, that the actual tape media is available. The time to load, seek and recover a file from a tape, while certainly greater than with disk, is often within acceptable limits.
Where disk does help significantly is with recovering a large numbers of objects, such as a full file system restore, or in a disaster recovery (DR) scenario where data is likely to be stored on multiple tape volumes.
- Improved reliability. One of the biggest complaints about tape is reliability. Tape isn't inherently unreliable, but because of differences in how it's managed, stored and handled, there can be wide variances and little predictability. This uncertainty is the real point of frustration. Disk, through RAID, can at least provide protection against media failures. Disk also benefits--from a reliability standpoint--from not being handled and transported.
- Better manageability. This is the area where disk truly has the potential for the greatest impact. Many of the everyday problems of traditional backup are related to the idiosyncrasies involved in managing tape and tape devices. The failure of one tape device can have a cascading effect that impacts a number of backup jobs; managing and tracking tape cartridges is a process that invites all sorts of glitches. Disk, if integrated correctly, can smooth the process enormously, resulting in better reliability and faster backups and restores.
It's important to approach disk-based backup with a solid understanding of how disk impacts each of these areas in order to realize the potential benefits.
|Checklist: planning for disk backup
Integrating disk into backup
There are several approaches to implementing disk-based backup (see "The disk-based backup landscape"). Selecting the right approach for your environment is a matter of determining the right balance of functionality, complexity and cost (see "Checklist: planning for disk backup").
Just as there are many benefits in a tiered data protection and archive storage strategy, getting there requires serious planning in the following areas:
Introduction of additional complexity. In most of today's backup environments, restores are simply a matter of locating the tape with the required data. As long as the backup was successfully completed, the data can be located on tape. Depending on the disk-based approach used, the data may be on disk for minutes, hours, days, weeks or even months. This introduces the need to ensure that data is managed and migrated properly. Some backup products have been enhanced to help perform this function, but in practice this represents a new set of daily operational and management tasks that must be performed and monitored. Imagine discovering at the last moment that a nightly backup to a disk cache never migrated properly to tape, and the next night's backup cycle was about to begin! Using disk also requires more disciplined planning--especially if the disk is shared among multiple media servers.
How your backup software handles disk will greatly affect your disk-based backup implementation. Backup vendors have optimized their applications to utilize tape effectively and many base their licensing fees on criteria such as robotic tape libraries and the number of tape drives (see "Does your backup software do disk?"). Disk-based backup disrupts that model to some degree. Key considerations include:
- Additional software licenses or add-on components required to support disk
- Restrictions or limitations imposed by the application on the use of disk
- If the application manages disk space automatically; the type of increments it writes to disk; capabilities for extending capacity when file limits are reached or when recovering and reallocating space as data expires
- Additional architectural and procedural changes required to fully realize the benefits of disk
Optimization. It's rare to find a data center that's 100% satisfied with its backup/restore environment. A new disk-based backup environment that emerges from a poorly functioning tape-based backup environment is likely to inherit those same inefficiencies. From a performance standpoint, think of a car that can't exceed 60 mph when the speed limit is 70. Putting that same car on the German Autobahn with no speed limits won't make the car go faster. Consider the processing overhead of doing incremental backups of a system that has millions of small files. The time for the backup software to scan those online files and determine what has changed will remain constant, regardless of whether the backup is going to disk or tape. The first step toward better performance is to find the bottlenecks in your backup environment and ensure that the backup architecture can support driving faster disk or tape.
Scheduling and policy. After adding disk to your backup environment, you may need to make some modifications to your current backup schedule. If performance gains are notable and the backup window becomes less of a concern, you have an opportunity to modify the current policy to potentially do full backups more often, or perform differential backups instead of incrementals.
Conversely, you may determine that better resource utilization and backup performance can be attained by doing fewer full backups and more incrementals. However, this would adversely impact recoverability time from cloned off-site tapes. To avoid this, you may want to perform synthetic fulls, where the backup software automatically (on a predefined schedule) generates a new full backup tape from a series of (disk-based) full and incremental (level zero, level one) backups.
| The disk-based backup landscape
When integrating disk-based backup, the critical decision is what approach--or combination of approaches--is appropriate for a given environment. Here's a list of the strengths and weaknesses of the various techniques.
Consistency of backups. Fuzzy backups--backups that are not from a single point-in-time--are sometimes used in sophisticated environments that have numerous application interdependencies. While this topic is usually more relevant to DR, it's still important to ensure the data being backed up is useable and in a coherent state. Disk-based backup doesn't address this issue. If a disk-based backup now takes one hour instead of four, it still isn't from a single point in time. Approaches such as snapshots and split mirrors address this specifically, and still need to be used regardless of the ultimate backup approach. Ironically, if snapshots or split mirrors are deployed in a disk-based backup environment that still uses tape for long-term archival and off-site rotation, the backup environment now has a total of three tiers of data protection storage (online disk, backup disk and tape).
Capacity planning. In a tape-based environment (see "The case for tape"), there are several important considerations when determining the required number of tape drives, amount of tape media and slot capacity of the tape library(s). Research shows that for every gigabyte stored online, there are between 10 and 15 copies of that data stored offline. Capacity planning for backup is an inexact science that's further complicated when online storage growth isn't accurately forecasted.
These issues take on a new twist in a disk-based backup environment. Instead of tape media capacity, you need to consider the file system and LUN sizes of your backup environment. Instead of tape library slots, you need to look at overall array capacity. Rather than estimating the compression ratio you may achieve during your tape backups, you need to investigate the size (including RAID level, amount of cache and disk drive) of the disk-based backup hardware, as well as how long the data being backed up will remain on spinning disk. Adding more tapes to a tape library for additional backup capacity is fairly straightforward; adding storage to a disk-based backup appliance requires considerably more effort and preparation. Also, don't forget that buying disk to handle a last-minute capacity crunch is much more difficult than buying some additional tapes.
Networking issues. Numerous approaches are used with today's popular tape-based backup environments. Some back up over the network, with Gigabit Ethernet quickly becoming the norm. The backup servers are sometimes dedicated, sometimes shared and are rarely sized appropriately specific to CPU, memory and backplane. Other backup environments use LAN-free backups, which have the application server backing up directly to tape devices on a storage network (e.g., Fibre Channel). And a few are even investigating server-free backups, which don't involve the application servers whatsoever.
| The case for tape
Adding disk doesn't necessarily mean eliminating tape.
And don't forget those other backups, including the network data management protocol (NDMP) and specialized approaches for network-attached storage (NAS), block, file and e-mail-based approaches, hot database backups which require other data structures such as archive and redo logs and other replication approaches that may use iSCSI or even FTP for file transfers. Why is this important? Because with a disk-based backup environment, it's necessary to consider and integrate these approaches in the same way a tape-based backup environment does. The storage for a disk-based environment can be a storage area network (SAN)-based storage device or a LAN-based NAS device. The process of ensuring appropriate bandwidth to the device and allocating and managing disk storage for backup can significantly affect network planning.
DR. Operational (day-to-day) and DR (full-site failure) approaches are often linked, especially if tape is incorporated into the overall DR strategy. Disk-based backup approaches insert a unique kink into DR strategies, which may include off-site rotation of backup and/or special DR tapes.
Portability of tape media is probably the biggest asset of a tape-based approach when the ultimate DR site is "to be determined" at the time of the disaster. Conversely, assuming the disk-based backup array is not affected during a DR event, shipping a backup array (or disks within the array) is questionable at best. Real-time or near real-time replication of a disk-based backup array to another site is also an option, but that requires a dedicated DR site and WAN capacity, as well as the additional expense of redundant disk to protect the primary site's backup disk.
For most environments, tape will continue to play a major role in DR. Disk-based backup can be a key factor in improving the off-site tape production process. Many organizations today don't follow best practices with regard to daily "tape cloning" for off-site storage simply because they lack the time and the number of tape drives needed to meet the demand. Disk reduces the number of tape drives needed, and because multiplexing isn't necessary in this scenario, data can be recovered from off-site tapes more quickly and easily.
Putting it all together
The future of backup is with disk. Just as today the thought of doing non-centralized backups on individual servers is an anomaly in any IT shop of reasonable size, in a few years, backing up directly to tape will also become a rarity. Managing the transition is today's challenge. Storage managers need to consider what to change and how to do it, and make those changes in the least disruptive manner possible. Having a clear understanding of all the moving parts will help you smooth the transition and realize the true benefits of disk-based backup.
Related Resources
- Designing a redundant backup solution –SearchStorage.com
Dig Deeper on Disk-based backup
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Monday thousands of Apple fans will descend upon San Francisco's Moscone Center for five days of iOS, Mountain Lion and rumors galore.
That's because the 2012 Worldwide Developers Conference will start in downtown San Francisco, and NBC Bay Area's Scott Budman will be there, tweeting, blogging and giving you television coverage of the latest and greatest.
So, what can the world expect from Apple this week?
Almost anything but probably nothing in regards to what has made the the twinkle of Steve Jobs' eye the world's most profitable company.
There have been rumors that Apple could unveil the iPhone 5. There have been reports that a 7-inch iPad tablet will make an appearance at the conference. There has even been some rumbling that Sir Jony Ive will pull the curtain back on his secretive lab and unveil a 46-inch Apple-powered television screen.
Those things could happen but they most likely won't. One thing that Apple has perfected in the years since Jobs handpicked his executive staff is the secretive company's master ability to tease what's next.
For six weeks now the world has known exactly what Apple will unveil at WWDC but the specifics are still murky.
"We have a great WWDC planned this year and can't wait to share the latest news about iOS and OS X Mountain Lion with developers," Apple's Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller said on April 25.
Digging deeper into Schiller's words, it's safe to guess that Apple will introduce iOS 6, which will be filled with new features that optimize the already popular experience users have on their iPhones and iPads.
Apple will most likely also give us a date when its new desktop operating system OS X Mountain Lion will be available.
What Apple showcases beyond that is anyone's guess. But NBC Bay Area Business and Technology Reporter Scott Budman will be in San Francisco on Monday broadcasting, tweeting and writing updates for NBCBayArea.com about everything that Apple does decide to share with us.
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Monday thousands of Apple fans will descend upon San Francisco's Moscone Center for five days of iOS, Mountain Lion and rumors galore.


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I have been traveling around Minnesota giving talks at libraries. Fun to do, but this year have been much hindered by WEATHER! January, February, and March talks had to be cancelled. Yesterday I drove to Montgomery, Minnesota through windstorm, rainstorm and near tornado conditions. Many people didn't make it to the library although those who traveled as far as an hour away did come. We had a great discussion about writing cookbooks, my Finnish Cookbook (now in its 38th printing) – first published in 1964!
Drove home to Duluth and arrived at 1:00 A.M. and was blocked by a tree that fell across our half-mile driveway!
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Robust Solution Suite and Cross Industry Capabilities Earn Survey's First Ever Perfect 5.0 Rating
May 14, 2013 — Portland, OR — Axiom EPM, a leading provider of financial planning and performance management software for enterprises, today announced it received a perfect 5.0 customer satisfaction rating in the BPM Partners Pulse Performance Management 2013 survey, which examines vendor solutions, industry trends, and offers end users guidance on solution selection and implementation. It was the first-ever perfect rating in the study's ten year history. In the annual webcast hosted by Business Finance Magazine, Craig Schiff, CEO of BPM Partners, the leading independent authority on business performance management, discussed essential strategies for budgeting, planning, reporting and consolidation systems.
This is the second year in a row that Axiom EPM was recognized during the BPM Partners Pulse Performance Management webcast for its superior customer service and comprehensive performance management solutions that serve a range of industries including banking, healthcare, retail, higher education, and manufacturing. "Clearly their customers love them," said Schiff.
"Receiving the first perfect customer satisfaction rating is particularly gratifying for us given that a large proportion of our client base participated in the study," said Michael Choi, CEO, Axiom EPM. "This recognition is a testament to the commitment we've made to our clients and to the quality of our solutions, and reinforces our reputation for delivering an unmatched level of service."
"The Pulse of Performance Management 2013 is designed to help participants identify the most successful vendors that match their needs, benchmark their projects and leverage performance management best practices," said Schiff.
Axiom EPM offers solutions for budgeting and forecasting, reporting and analytics, strategy management, capital planning, consolidations, profitability and cost management on a single integrated platform. Axiom EPM's flexible, scalable solutions address the complicated finance needs of a wide variety of organizations provides finance executives with the tools they need to improve corporate performance. Axiom EPM embraces and extends familiar Microsoft Excel® functionality, allowing finance professionals to manage data in a familiar environment – while providing unmatched modeling flexibility and enterprise performance. Its applications promote end-user adoption as well as actionable participation across business processes. "It's a good choice for anyone looking for a comprehensive and unified solution," said Schiff.
To listen to a replay of BPM's Pulse of Performance Management 2013 Webcast visit: http://w.on24.com/r.htm?e=598096&s=1&k=9600C6C1B142FA8681DD593AFA0FDD6A
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BPM Partners is the leading independent authority on business performance management (BPM) and business intelligence solutions. The company helps organizations address their budgeting, planning, financial reporting, regulatory compliance, profitability optimization, key performance indicator (KPI) development, and operational performance challenges with vendor-neutral experts who can guide companies through their BPM initiatives from start to finish while both reducing risk and minimizing costs. For further details, go to http://www.bpmpartners.com. Follow BPM Partners on Twitter @BPMTeam.
About Axiom EPM
Founded by industry leaders with over two decades of experience in enterprise planning and reporting, Axiom EPM delivers performance management solutions for mid-sized and large organizations around the world. Solutions for budgeting & forecasting, reporting & analytics, strategy management, capital planning, profitability & cost management are delivered on a single unified platform. Axiom EPM embraces and extends familiar Microsoft Excel® functionality, allowing finance professionals to manage data in a familiar environment – while providing unmatched modeling flexibility and enterprise performance. For more information, visit www.axiomepm.com.


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The Search for America's Best Hot Dog: East Coast Contenders
Last summer, SE and Every Day with Rachel Ray embarked on an epic road trip on a mission to find America's Best Hot Dog.
Ed, Adam and I culled from our obsessive knowledge of encased meats and split up, scouring the country for three weeks eating nothing but hot dogs from Maine to Arizona and everywhere in between.
The 64 contenders for America's Best Dog were organized by region, March Madness style, with 16 hot dog joints for each section of the country (East Coast, West Coast, South, and Midwest). We did our best to represent every area of the country where people have a serious passion for hot dogs, including not only legendary spots with four-hour lines, but some of the best lesser-known joints and newer eclectic and gourmet franks that reflect recent hot dog trends.
To kick off the competition, we're doing a slideshow for each region, introducing all 64 contenders. First up is the East Coast. It's SEHQ's home base and the probable birthplace of the frankfurter sandwich (on the boardwalk of Coney Island in the late 1800s). With so many fantastic hot dogs up and down the East Coast, this region was the hardest to condense down to only 16 establishments.
The Best of the Rest
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Hawk Krall is a Philadelphia-based illustrator who has a serious thing for hot dogs. Dig his dog drawings? Many of the illustrations he has created for Hot Dog of the Week are available for sale: hawkkrall.net/prints/.
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Join Legacy Family Tree's Geoff Rasmussen as he demonstrates these powerful software programs:
1) AniMap software (U.S. & Canada): learn how to find the correct county for the time period, and perform radius searches (list all cemeteries/churches within 10 miles of a place). For 30 years a researcher looked in the records of Woodstock, Windham County, Connecticut for their ancestor who was born there in 1720. AniMap easily shows that in 1720, Woodstock would have been in Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Now we know the correct location to find the records for that time period. Brick wall problem solved.
2) Centennia software (Europe and Middle East): Have you ever wondered about the changing country borders in Europe? Have ancestors in Germany, Poland, or Prussia? Which is it? The Centennia Historical Atlas software shows the changing country borders from the 11th century to the present in Europe and the Middle East.
3) Map My Family Tree software (entire world): plot your ancestors on a map of the world, track family migrations, plot to Google Earth, use the time scroll bar to dynamically select which time period you want displayed on your map and more.


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OAXACA, a colonial treasure in the south of Mexico, is proud to be considered one of the most beautiful cities in the world. It was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987, and eritage Site in its pre and post Colombian heritage, history and culture date back more than 3,000 years. It is the capital of the state of Oaxaca, and a city committed to preserving its artistic, architectural, archeological and gastronomic traditions.
Walking through the Benita Juarez Market is a spiritual and cultural journey back in time. Foods are seasoned with indigenous spices, and then cooked on open fires as they have been for generations. Tortillas, hot-from-the-oven, and tamales made with corn husks or banana leaves are stuffed with meats, shredded chicken, chilies, onions, eggs, and a mix of salsas.
Mounds of pungent chilies and mole powders are for sale by the kilo. Mole is a paste made with a variety of 25 ingredients that can include: four kinds of chilies, almonds, cinnamon, banana, bread, crumpled tortilla and grapefruit rind. I learn there are seven different kinds of mole: black, green, yellow, almond and rosado that are turned into hundreds of different recipes. Everyone has a secret family recipe that has been passed down.
Huge slices of red juicy watermelon and pineapple, #4422
and a wide variety of other locally grown fruits and vegetables, are piled high . . . slabs of beef and pork and whole chickens and ducks hang from hooks. I cautiously dig into a mound of fried grasshoppers, and to my surprise, they are crunchy and quite tasty. I watch a man make chocolate from cocoa powder; he adds chili and cinnamon, to the mix. It is a many step process, but the people ofOaxaca love their chocolate.
The market is vibrant with colorful foods and colorful people … a tapestry of friendly faces, flavors, and aromas. The smell of meats being grilled whets my appetite. Diego orders an Oaxaca sampler platter: beef, pork and chorizos with black and red mole. Unfamiliar flavors explode in my mouth; some are so hot, they take my breath away, others sweet and garlicky.
#4373 senoras selling every part of the cow and pig. #4390 Oaxaca cheeses come in string and blocks
#4388 I discover mescal is smoother than tequila #4357 the veggies are huge
I swig an icy local beer and chat in Spanish with people I will never see again. It is a memorable day, one that ignites my passion for Oaxaca food, and nurtures my appreciation of places and people who touch my heart.
Hacienda Los Laureles Hotel is owned and managed by Peter and Ligia Kaiser, a charming and gracious couple who take great pride in the 1800's hacienda they restored and expanded into a serene treasure. Peter Kaiser, a true visionary, updated and redesigned the property, adding a new building with 23 deluxe rooms and two master suites, a small spa, dipping pool and a Mexican sweat lodge. They even offer guests the healing powers of Shaman Ignacio Hernandez who has been conducting temascal ceremonies for ten years.
I am happy to return to this tranquil retreat (just 10 minutes from the center of town) after a hectic day of exploring small villages, visiting artist studios, galleries and museums, or bargaining with street merchants for hand embroidered blouses.
Chef Horacio Reyes sets up a table and a cooking station out in the garden of the hacienda. We make two different kinds of mole, one traditional, and the other Mexican. It takes a lot of prepping, seasoning, mixing, cooking and grilling, but we sip white wine and chop away. # 4562 Chef Horacio hard at work on our lunch
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A Day of Touring
Diego, our dedicated and knowledgeable tour guide and owner of the Turistica Ayuso Travel agency, www.viajesoaxaca.com has a full day planned. We follow the Pan American Highway, route #90, to Teotitlan, a town inhabited by 8,000 painters and weavers. Pantaleon Ruiz, one of the most well known, is waiting to share his world of art. On the way, we pass a mescal processing factory, bundled banana leaves and corn husks drying in the sun, and several small pyramids. There are 4-5,000 archeological sites in the state of Oaxaca. Small pyramids were originally uncovered in 1956, and ceramic chards continue to be found in the fields that line the road. Every town we visit has something else to offer. On Sundays, twenty villages come together in San Antonio to trade what they grow, or the live stock they raise.
Camino Real Hotel, once a Convent, offers large rooms and many modern amenities that blend into its Colonial history and architecture. Inez Diaz recently moved here with her daughter, to take over as manager. When my plane is canceled due to the snow storm; Inez graciously arranges a two night stay at a special rate. I enjoy their delicious Oaxaca breakfast buffet, a refreshing swim in the pool, and the mariachi's that serenade me with my favorite Mexican songs.
Museo Textil Oaxaca is a private museum, housed in what was the first Dominican Monastery in Mexico. The museum is in Oaxaca because the region has the most varied weaving techniques in all of Mexico. The museum, opened in 2006, has four exhibition rooms; 16 artists are represented in each show and the exhibition changes every five months. Three techniques are represented in the pieces that hang on the walls: one, an original painting along with the artist's embroidered interpretation, two, the artist working with a weaver to create an interpretation, and three, collaboration between weaver and artist. The museum's collection is huge; more than 5,500 textile pieces are warehoused. A young man leads me on a mini tour; his knowledge and commentary is greatly appreciated as he explains the different techniques. and gives me a brief background on the artists whose work is on display.
Los Pacos Oaxaca Restaurants
Paco and Lucy are owners of two Los Pacos Restaurants and a mole factory that produces six different kinds of mole. Paco, tells me: "I learned to cook from my grandmother and my mother who helps run our other restaurant". We become friends sharing a few Los Pacos specialties, and I learn Lucy's passion is restoring furniture. I love folk artist Fernando Andriacci's animated paintings that hang on the walls, and Lucy promises to take me to meet him.
My last night on town, Lucy, and her daughter Pamela, drive me to artist Fernando Andriacci's. home; his adjoining studio is as colorful as his paintings. Several easels hold in- progress canvases; pots of paint and brushes cover an array of tables, and limited edition prints are neatly stacked. Fernando would like to sell his work in the United States, but he has been burned a couple of times in trying. He shares his passion for painting, and I, my appreciation of his art.
#4621 Fernando is proud of his work #4620 I love this colorful painting
#4625 Babbie and Fernando in his studio
I am sad to leave Oaxaca; but the blizzard back in New York did give me three extra days and nights during which time, I shared the heart beats of second, third and fourth generation Oaxacans who love where they live, cherish what they do, and are quick to turn strangers into friends. Diego drives me to the airport. We hug. He too has touched my heart.


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Royal Sweater hack: Make your own Prince George guards sweater vest
The Associated Press thinks that British (and Anglophile) royal fans who want a sweater like the one royal toddler Prince George sported recently are out of luck because you can't get them at eBay anymore.
Does nobody at the AP knit? Does nobody at the AP know that the Brits (and Australians and Canadians) do, in droves? Can they not hear the sound of tens of thousands of grannies picking up their needles and clacking away? Because basically, this toddler's sweater is cake.


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Anesthesiology provides care for patients during operation theaters by helping them under go certain procedures and operations without pain and distress. This specialty also provides relief from chronic pain. Anaestheisa basically is a "reversible lack of awareness," whether this is a total lack of awareness (e.g. a general anesthetic) or a lack of awareness of a part of the body such as a spinal anesthetic or another nerve block would cause. Anesthesia is a pharmacologically induced reversible state of amnesia, analgesia, loss of responsiveness, loss of skeletal muscle reflexes and decreased stress response.
KPJ Klang Specialist Hospital (KLGSH) is the KPJ group's 21st hospital. A multi-specialty 'one stop' tertiary care hospital of international standard,


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When locals and tourists alike crowd the white rails at Canada Place to watch a ship departing for Alaska, few may realize that cruise liners have been setting sail from Vancouver Harbour since before the Second World War.
Two lines with long-standing ties to Vancouver are Princess Cruises and Holland America Line. The latter's distinctive ships, with their flag-blue hulls and Dutch names, have been carrying passengers to Alaska since the early 1970s. Although headquartered in Seattle, Holland America Line (HAL) favours Vancouver as its main home port for Alaska-bound ships and this year HAL has five "dam" ships sailing out of Vancouver, three of these on seven-day round-trip itineraries.
The convenience of embarking and disembarking in Vancouver, coupled with the opportunity to see British Columbia's fabled Inside Passage en route to and from Alaska, makes this an ideal cruise for Lower Mainland residents. Several lines offer similar round-trip itineraries, but it's hard to deny the appeal of taking this scenic voyage aboard one of HAL's classic, mid-sized ships run by Dutch officers and attentive Indonesian stewards. In business since 1873 when founded in Rotterdam as the Netherlands-America Steamship Company, this line carried thousands of European immigrants across the Atlantic to New York and its ships became known as the Spotless Fleet because of their high standards of cleanliness and maintenance.
Holland America's dominance of the Alaska cruise tour market began when it bought Westours from Chuck West, a former bush pilot and freewheeling entrepreneur who pioneered tourism in Alaska. His company had grown from a single leased plane into a network of hotels, motor coaches and ships offering cruises up the Inside Passage when acquired by Holland America.
Those early ships are long gone, replaced by a new generation of premium-class ships that provide an array of modern amenities while retaining traditional features evocative of a classic ocean liner, such as teak wraparound promenade decks lined with steamer chairs. Inside the ships are elegant public areas appointed with an eclectic selection of fine art and antiques. Fresh flowers are everywhere.
On a cruise departing from Vancouver, the first full day is spent at sea as your ship steams north up the Inside Passage, past evergreen islands and glassy fiords. There is much to do on-board during a sea day, but one of my favourite pastimes on a HAL ship is to walk a mile or two on the promenade deck, the firmness of natural teak beneath my feet as I enjoy the splendid seascapes gliding past the ship's rail.
When I'm finished my morning walk, I like to stroll through the ship's public areas, pausing to browse in the shops and check out that day's sale items. I eventually make my way to the Explorations Café for an espresso and freshly baked pastry before accessing the Internet or browsing the well-stocked library where overstuffed chairs invite you to sit and leaf through a book.
There are numerous lounges, quiet during the day, in which to relax with a book or sit back and enjoy the passing scenery. Live music, including classical strings and cool jazz, can be enjoyed in these same lounges each evening. My husband, Bill, likes the Crow's Nest at the bow of the ship for daytime viewing. One deck below, also at the ship's bow, is the fitness centre where our two teenage sons like to work out before heading to the lido for lunch, returning later for a mid-afternoon snack. They're hungry again by dinnertime, when the four of us sit down to a five-course meal in the main dining room. Open seating is offered on HAL ships, but we prefer sitting at the same table every night so we can get to know our waiters and wine steward.
Upon reaching Alaska, the tonic effect of sailing past a pristine coastal wilderness comes to a temporary halt when your ship pulls into one of the busy ports. Cruise passengers usually crowd the streets near the docks, where gold-rush buildings now house souvenir shops, restaurants and museums. But it's easy to escape the crowds, with hiking trails accessible at all the ports. And then there are the shore excursions. These are numerous, varied and described in detail on HAL's website.
In Juneau you can take a helicopter ride over mountains blanketed by the Juneau Icefield and touch down at a dog sled camp where eager huskies (trained for the Iditarod) will take you mushing across the icy landscape. One of the best excursions in Juneau is the whale-watching boat tour. Humpback whales feed each summer in the channels near Juneau and there are few thrills to compare with seeing one of these massive creatures surface unexpectedly and raise its fluked tail high out of the water before making a deep dive.
The port of Skagway, a famous boom town during the Klondike Gold Rush, is also featured on Inside Passage cruises. The National Park Service has restored several of Skagway's historic buildings, including the Mascot Saloon. The scenic train ride on the White Pass & Yukon Route railroad is one of Skagway's most popular attractions, but other options include renting a bicycle or hiking the local trails (maps are available at the Park Service office).
The highlight of an Alaska cruise is seeing up close some of the region's beautiful tidewater glaciers. These towering walls of ice each mark the terminus of a valley glacier that has flowed seaward and sits partly submerged at the head of an inlet. Your ship will linger at the face of a tidewater glacier on the chance a huge chunk of ice will break away with a thundering crash into the turquoise water.
Glacier Bay, surrounded by mountains and lined with glacier-carved inlets, is what first attracted tourists on steamships to Alaskan waters. Today the number of vessels allowed into Glacier Bay (which is a national park and summer feeding ground for humpback whales) is strictly controlled, so not all cruise lines are able to gain access to this bay. HAL features a visit to Glacier Bay on nearly all of its sailings.
Holland America also offers one-way itineraries between Vancouver and Seward (near Anchorage). These are popular with people wanting to add a land tour of Denali National Park, which contains Mount McKinley — the highest mountain in North America. Another option is to take a three-day Inside Passage cruise from Vancouver and disembark in Skagway for a land tour that covers Whitehorse, Kluane National Park and Reserve, the Alaska Highway to Fairbanks, a rail journey to Denali National Park, and a flight home from Anchorage.
For more information on the array of itineraries available, visit HAL's website (hollandamerica.com) and consult a travel agent who specializes in cruises.
Anne Vipond is the author of the bestselling guidebook Alaska By Cruise Ship, now in its seventh edition. The book is sold at leading retail and online bookstores across Canada and is available in print and ebook versions. Over 200,000 copies have been sold worldwide.


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Balloon Valvuloplasty for Aortic Valve StenosisSkip to the navigation
Treatment Overview
Balloon valvuloplasty (also called valvulotomy or valvotomy) is a procedure that widens a heart valve that is narrowed. The cause of this narrowing in the aortic valve is aortic valve stenosis .
During this procedure, a thin flexible tube called a catheter is inserted through an artery in the groin or arm and threaded into the heart. When the tube reaches the narrowed heart valve, a balloon at the end of the tube is inflated. The balloon widens the valve opening.
During the procedure, you will be awake. But you will receive local anesthesia where the catheter is inserted as well as intravenous (IV) pain medicine along with a sedative to help you relax.
What To Expect After Treatment
You will likely stay overnight in the hospital after a valvuloplasty. You will be checked for any problems after the procedure, such as bleeding from the site where the catheter was inserted.
Why It Is Done
Balloon valvuloplasty is not an option for most people who have aortic valve stenosis.
Children, teens, and young adults
Balloon valvuloplasty might be used in some children, teens, and young adults in their 20s who have aortic valve stenosis. This group typically has aortic valve stenosis because of a congenital heart defect such as a bicuspid aortic valve .
Pregnant women
Valvuloplasty may be used for pregnant women who get aortic valve stenosis symptoms during their pregnancy. After the woman delivers, she may then have aortic valve replacement surgery.
Older adults
Valvuloplasty is not appropriate for most older people who have stenosis. These people typically need an aortic valve replacement procedure.
How Well It Works
Balloon valvuloplasty is generally an effective treatment for aortic valve stenosis in children, teens, and young adults but has very limited effectiveness in older adults. In most older adults, the valve becomes narrowed again (restenosis) within 6 to 12 months after this procedure. footnote 1
Balloon valvuloplasty works better in younger people because of the difference in the causes of aortic valve stenosis in younger and older people. Young people typically have the condition because they were born with a bicuspid valve, which is an aortic valve that has two leaflets instead of three. But older people typically get stenosis over many years through a gradual hardening and buildup of calcium on their valves. This is a process called aortic sclerosis, which is similar to atherosclerosis, the buildup of hard plaque inside the arteries.
After a valvotomy procedure in a young person, the aortic valve is wider, but it is still not normal. After 10 to 20 years, the valve might get narrow again, and he or she might need a valve replacement surgery. footnote 2
A valvotomy procedure for children, teens, and young adults has low risk for serious complications. footnote 3
But for older adults, serious complications happen in 1 or 2 out of 10 people who have this procedure. These problems include stroke, heart attack, and aortic valve regurgitation. footnote 4
Complications related to the catheter include:
- Pain, swelling, and tenderness at the catheter insertion site.
- Irritation of the vein by the catheter (superficial thrombophlebitis). This can usually be treated with warm compresses.
- Bleeding at the catheter site.
- A bruise where the catheter was inserted. This usually goes away in a few days.
- Trouble urinating after the procedure.
What To Think About
For information about valve replacement surgery, see Aortic Valve Replacement Surgery .
Complete the special treatment information form (PDF) (What is a PDF document?) to help you understand this treatment.
- Nishimura RA, et al. (2014). 2014 AHA/ACC guideline for the management of patients with valvular heart disease: A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. Circulation, published online March 3, 2014. DOI: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000000031. Accessed May 1, 2014.
- Otto CM, Bonow RO (2012). Valvular heart disease. In RO Bonow et al., eds., Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine, 9th ed., vol. 2, pp. 1468-1539. Philadelphia: Saunders.
- Feltes TF, et al. (2011). Indications for cardiac catheterization and intervention in pediatric cardiac disease: A scientific statement from the American Heart Association. Circulation, 123(22): 2607-2652.
- Freeman RV, Otto CM (2011). Aortic valve disease. In V Fuster et al., eds., Hurst's The Heart, 13th ed., vol. 2, pp. 1692-1720. New York: McGraw-Hill.
ByHealthwise Staff
Primary Medical Reviewer Rakesh K. Pai, MD, FACC - Cardiology, Electrophysiology
Martin J. Gabica, MD - Family Medicine
E. Gregory Thompson, MD - Internal Medicine
Adam Husney, MD - Family Medicine
Specialist Medical Reviewer Michael P. Pignone, MD, MPH, FACP - Internal Medicine
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A Pacific storm continued to bring rain to Southern California Saturday, with conditions so severe in one area that the National Weather Service issued a tornado warning early Saturday.
"We are still looking at a very active weather day," NBC4 meteorologist Elita Loresca said. "I'd advise folks near the burn areas and just overall should remain vigilant and aware of flooding and mud in their areas. Don't try to drive through these areas!"
A tornado warning was in effect from 3:19 a.m. to 4 a.m. for East Central Los Angeles County near Azusa and Pomona after the National Weather Service noticed a severe thunderstorm in the area capable of producing a tornado. No damage was reported.
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A flash flood warning has been issued for the Madre, Colby, Madison and Williams burn areas of Los Angeles County until 8 a.m. Saturday. As of 6 a.m., the Doppler radar indicated very heavy rain moving into the burn areas, according to the NWS. Over one half inch per hour have been reported in nearby areas, which "will likely produce flash flooding and mud and debris flows in and around the burn areas."
'Expected rain totals today aren't going to be as much as yesterday, but still enough to cause problems, especially with the threat of thunderstorms," Loresca said Saturday morning. "Coasts and valleys should expect one to two inches, foothills and mountains should expect two to four inches of rain."
A Pacific storm Friday brought rain, thunder, and winds, wreaking havoc on Southern Californians who haven't seen anything like it in years.
About 1 to 2 inches of rain fell in much of the Los Angeles basin by Friday morning, with about 3 to 5 inches dousing mountain areas.
Snow levels were down to 5,500 feet by Saturday morning.
High surf lashed the Southern California coast and mudslides slammed foothill communities.
A high surf advisory is in effect until 5 p.m. Sunday.
A flash flood watch is in effect until 8 p.m. Saturday for Los Angeles County mountains, foothill areas coastal areas and valleys, as well as for Catalina Island.
A coastal flood advisory is in effect between 6 a.m. and noon Saturday and from 4 a.m. Saturday until 4 a.m. Monday for Orange County beaches.
There's a chance of showers and thunderstorms all day Saturday and into the night with temperatures in the 50s..
Sunday, it could be mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the morning, then a slight chance of showers in the afternoon.
Temperatures could reach around 60.
A winter storm warning is in effect for big LA County mountains until 3 a.m. Sunday.
A high wind warning is in effect until 6 a.m. Saturday in the Coachella Valley. Winds of 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 45 mph are expected, with the strongest expected over higher terrain, according to the NWS.
The strongest storm to hit Southern California in about three years soaked much of the area with heavy rain Friday.
The storm sent waves of mud and debris cascading down recently burned mountainsides.
The weather forced evacuations and prompted school closures.


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· Corn traded limit up for most of the overnight session but came off limit for the day session.
· Corn/Wheat/Beans/Soymeal/Soyoil will all go back to regular trading limits tomorrow.
· USDA secretary Tom Vilsack is going to outline this administration's plans for bio-fuels on October 21st. Most people are expecting some sort of extension credit for the blender's credit in 2011.
Sunday night the markets opened sharply higher in corn/beans surpassing the synthetic value from Friday's limit up close. Corn stayed 45 cents higher (limit) for most of the night before coming off the highs just before the overnight close. Corn settled the day session up 27 ½ cents after being unable to touch limit again in the day session. Nov beans finished up 17 ½ and Dec wheat finished 10 cents lower. Corn, soybeans, and wheat will all back to regular trading limits tomorrow.
If this buying spree continues, we could see a shortage of futures similar to the 07 wheat market. As we learned that year many producers had cash sales on at $5 - 6 and basis went from 50 cents under to 3.00 under. We are not predicting this will happen but it is something we can try to avoid by not taking the unnecessary risk of leaving the basis open. This also puts most risk in the elevators hands and leaves the margin up to them. Please call your broker to discuss strategies for your particular operation.
With last week's sharp rally in corn, ethanol margins decreased 20 cents per bushel and are now negative (board margins). Blending margins decreased about 20 cents a gallon. If energy prices stay here, corn would have to rally a $1 while ethanol would have to rally 30 cents to completely shut off the discretionary blender.
It all goes back to the corn bullishness. With a battle for acres corn/beans/wheat/cotton could keep feeding off each other through the March planting intentions report. Having the March corn call spreads in place will give us upside potential up to $6.50 (March). If you need additional protection, please call your broker for current strategies.
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Yesterday's Pictures #4 by Gunther Karl Bose
Longtime readers of 5B4 will know I have continuously sung the praises of the Institut fur Buchkunst in Leipzig. The quality of the books they publish, most often by their students and instructors, have earned a special place on my shelves because of their content and clever design. Not to mention that some of the books (at 10-35 euros) are so absurdly cheap to acquire for their quality.
One recent series of "publications" I discovered last year is by the graphic designer and instructor at the Institute Gunther Karl Bose. I put the word publications in quotes because these are more single image works of art than a traditional "book". Yesterday's Pictures is a small series of images Bose has produced from his archive of 1960s-70s advertising images which are backed in linen and which unfold like a map from the delicate size of 4X6 inches to approximately 16X20.
My favorite so far is Yesterday's Pictures #4 whose title is Miller Beer Six-Pack. The original image was created in 1960 by a commercial firm in Milwaukee Wisconsin called Genack Studio and shows a slightly larger than life pair of man's hands assembling (or disassembling) the cardboard container of a six-pack of Miller Beer bottles. Simple and straight forward? Yes and no. The linen gaps break the overall picture into a grid contributing additional lines and angles to an already dimensionally complicated photo.
Other images in the series I found to be a bit more kitsch heavy - two 1960s-era nude women photographing each other, a woman holding up a color chart, and a Chinese bottle of coca-cola. All of the images are from the personal archive of Gunther Karl Bose.
Yesterday's Pictures are a little more expensive at 40 euros each but they are in very small editions of 20 per image. I am not sure where to buy them as I have only seen them at the Kassel Fotobook festival and there is no ordering information online via the Institute or anywhere else. If I find out more information, I'll post it in the comments section.


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jessicarenwick brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 169 Designs von 49 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
New branding, contemporary and classy, edgy, strong, branding or retro to be applied to letterhead, marketing material, product labels and boxes etc. We want it to represent us as a reliable dependable, high quality brand and company, with focus on high quality expensive product. It is worth considering that the logo will need to look well on a ceramic coffee cup and other marketing material. Would be great to see some ideas beyond coffee cups and coffee beans!!! THANKS to everyone who has submitted so far, we are delighted with the interest and entries.
Kaldi or Kaldi Coffee Company
We are a 4 year old coffee company who used to distribute other branded coffee and we are now in a position to begin distributing our own brand coffee beans and filter coffee. We are competing in Ireland, in a highly saturated market with a number of large companies with large marketing departments etc. We want to have a logo that represents our company policy of sourcing the best quality product. We also try to source from ethical and eco concious suppliers (who may not be certified as this can inflate costs) however we do not want an earthy eco brand, but possibly reflect it somehow within the logo (this is not essential).
- The name 'Kaldi' or 'Kaldi Coffee Company'
- In Vector Format i.e. Photoshop to be able to change to PDF JPG GIF as needed.
No childish or techie cartoon type images.
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