{"id":13862,"date":"2009-02-21T00:36:20","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T07:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=13862"},"modified":"2009-02-21T00:33:18","modified_gmt":"2009-02-21T07:33:18","slug":"theme-thelection-part-deux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/21\/theme-thelection-part-deux.html","title":{"rendered":"Theme Thelection, Part Deux"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, I’m pretty happy with how adapting the “Amazing Grace” theme is working for me. Most of the most obvious “problems” have been skinned.  Done …<\/p>\n

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  1. Change the theme from fixed width columns to variables, so that (within a few bounds) I can widen or narrow the window and get more real estate. It also got rid of most of the right\/left margins, which is fine by me.<\/li>\n
  2. Added in my personalized styles to the CSS.<\/li>\n
  3. Tweaked the sidebar formats so that bullets are bulletized and the headers have a line over them to separate them and, overall, it looks more civilized.<\/li>\n
  4. Reshuffle the sidebar widgets between the two sidebars. WP doesn’t handle that quite as neatly as I’d like, but it’s still pretty simple. Having the two right sidebars lets me put more “should see” material at the top of the blog.<\/li>\n
  5. Updated my various Pages, which now appear in the menu across the top.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Still to do …<\/p>\n

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    1. Tweak the colors. Alas, the header is actually a series of graphic images (bg.jpg) striped across the top, which makes it tough to change. And, no, I don’t want to use the Blue Grace version. (If I had my druthers, I’d probably do something red-toned in the banner.) Something to ponder.<\/li>\n
    2. Change the post header to indicate the time of the post. Right now, it’s just doing the date.<\/li>\n
    3. I want to change the link appearance to something closer to what it was in the previous theme (colored\/bold). Or at least try it. We’ll see.<\/li>\n
    4. Add a link for individual post feeds to the individual posts.<\/li>\n
    5. Get rid of the sub-menu in the header. It’s showing the most popular (by post count) categories. Um … no, that’s not terribly useful.<\/li>\n
    6. Fix the block quotes to indent more and have a little quotation mark show up. Again, I can crib what the previous theme was doing pretty straightforwardly (I hope).<\/li>\n
    7. Play with the picture-fu that Ginny did to change the picture in the header to … well, more appropriate (and my own) pictures.<\/li>\n
    8. Move the “ShareThis” doodad into the post footer along with category, comments, etc.<\/li>\n
    9. Change the comment coloration. Right now it’s it’s back-ground coloring, which does help differentiate each comment, but isn’t what I really want. I’d rather have them all with a distinguishing color, or else (as I’ve seen on some blogs) have my own comments<\/li>\n
    10. Play with hierarchical comments (which this theme supports).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Once that’s all in place, I can go back to my old blog layout and decide what, that I still don’t have, should be put on the new blog. E.g., links to Amazon wish lists, photo site, etc.<\/p>\n

      Plus, after all, all the other plug-ins just dying to be implemented.<\/p>\n

      Sounds like plenty to keep me busy. Though this is still a quarter of the effort that it was on my old blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Okay, I’m pretty happy with how adapting the “Amazing Grace” theme is working for me. Most of the most obvious “problems” have been skinned.  Done … Change the theme from fixed width columns to variables, so that (within a few bounds) I can widen or narrow the window and get more real estate. It also … Continue reading “Theme Thelection, Part Deux”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging-technical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11976,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/12\/19\/more_searchy_goodness.html","url_meta":{"origin":13862,"position":0},"title":"More searchy goodness","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 19-Dec-07 11:48am","format":false,"excerpt":"I've added yet another search box to the sidebar.\u00a0 This one's powered by Google, and will search this blog, Margie's Kitchen, and Doing Write.\u00a0 The result is Google-ugly, not as...","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging & Internet"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging & Internet","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13831,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/20\/themes.html","url_meta":{"origin":13862,"position":1},"title":"Themes","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 20-Feb-09 1:17pm","format":false,"excerpt":"There are a lot of Wordpress themes out there on the Web. 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