To customize a WordPress theme I mean. At least I could do that yesterday without ruining the template . Yes it’s more complicated than Blogger template but the basics are, more or less, the same. I managed to move the navigation bar from the top of the page to under the blog title and add a little Christmas countdown widget under it. Oh, by the way I think the widget doesn’t work well, or at least it’s not using the same time zone as mine. I’ll check it later. I also added an Adsense banner on top of the blog body section, who knows maybe some of you find it interesting and want to check on it , by pasting the code at index.php and single.php files. As for managing Adsense inside post, I use AdSense Integrator plugin.

I haven’t finished yet, still want to find out how to add a wider dynamic sidebar under those two sidebars where now I put an Adgitize widget on it. I pasted the Adgitize code directly at sidebar.php file, it worked, but didn’t like the result. I wanted it to appear similar to other widgets above it. Well, I’ll continue working on it later…

Today I will try to tweak this template a little bit. Will add some page elements on it and try out some plugins. In general I’m quite happy with this theme for its simple design and fast loading time. The color combination and header image are also nice. However, it looks so plain compare to the previous one, so I will try to add some bling-bling on it, like some adsense or banner on the sidebar for example.

I’m not yet familiar with WordPress theme so will need some time to do it. Let’s see if I can do that without ruining the whole template

I just upgraded my WP to WordPress 2.8.4 yesterday. I know it’s been there for weeks so I was kinda late to upgrade and guess what? This morning I saw on my dashboard “WordPress 2.8.5 is available! Please update now”. Oh why are they updating so often?

Anyway, like my new look? It’s so easy to apply a new template on WordPress 2.8 (one thing I like the most from this version). Just upload the zip file from dashboard, preview, activate and voila it’s done! I didn’t loose any of my widgets either, they’re kept in Widgets section. All I needed to do was just drag them to the sidebars. WordPress really beats Blogger on this one . Every time I want to change my blogger blog template, I have to install the widgets one by one.

Unfortunately, this theme doesn’t support threaded comments and gravatar like the previous one. So I had to edited some PHP files in order to make them work. Don’t ask me how I did it, it was a long trial and error process, plus plenty of googling.

Hacking WP theme is really challenging, there’s a different php file for each section. I vote for blogger on this one, their templates are much easier to be customized.

I hope it works fine because I really like the color and header image