I also tweaked the vertical spacing in various header elements to make things look right. The only thing that’s really a hack is the Cutline guys’ deal where they [...]]]> With even more hacking, I implemented the image overlay thing the Cutline authors did on their blog. This floats another image on top of the randomly changing header.

I also tweaked the vertical spacing in various header elements to make things look right. The only thing that’s really a hack is the Cutline guys’ deal where they hyperlink the floating image by hyperlinking random text associated with a particular region of the floating image, but they hide the actual text by left indenting it by -9999 pixels. Which took a little tinkering to figure out.

But I think I’m happy now with what I’ve got. Everything’s actually working and nothing looks like ass.

So maybe I should go to sleep so I can get up early tomorrow to clean the cat boxes and take out the trash.

Added “Edit” link to single posts and the main page (per post):

Edited index.php and single.php, inserting following line at appropriate place (lines 13 and 11, respectively):

<br /><?php edit_post_link('Edit',''); ?>

This conditionally inserts the edit link depending on logged-in [...]]]> Okay, here’s where I catalog all the changes I made to get Cutline where I wanted it to be.

Added “Edit” link to single posts and the main page (per post):

Edited index.php and single.php, inserting following line at appropriate place (lines 13 and 11, respectively):

<br /><?php edit_post_link('Edit',''); ?>

This conditionally inserts the edit link depending on logged-in user’s permissions.

Added “Edit” link to single comments (also conditional, depending on logged-in user’s permissions):

Edited comments.php, inserting following line at appropriate place (line 88):

<br /><?php edit_comment_link('edit comment', '', ''); ?>

Altered the no comments message so that it reads right:

Edited comments.php, changing “below” to “above” and adding an exclamation point (line 108).

Altered the tag cloud so it looks like one again (instead of a list, as in the Cutline theme):

Changed sidebar.php (line 42) from:

<?php wp_tag_cloud('smallest=10&largest=10&number=25&format=list'); ?>

to:

<?php wp_tag_cloud('smallest=6&largest=12&number=0&format=flat'); ?>

Inserted an additional sections and links in the Sidebar for features I miss (the Akismet spam comments counter, conditional linking to Site Admin and logout).

Edited sidebar.php to add to end:

<li class=”widget”>
<h2>Site</h2>
<?php akismet_counter(); ?>
</li>

<li class=”widget”>
<h2>Meta</h2>
<ul>
<?php wp_register(); ?>
<li><?php wp_loginout(); ?></li>
<li><a href=”http://wordpress.org/” title=”Powered by WordPress, state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform.”>WordPress</a></li>
<?php wp_meta(); ?>
</ul>
</li>

Changed the theme’s CSS to add a little more color.

Edited style.css.

Changed the main linking color from dark grey to blue (line 171).

Changed the tag linking color from dark grey to dark green (line 213).

Fixed the Permalinks by adding the Permalinks class to the style.css section (lines 300-310).

The missing class in each style was “ul.sidebar_list li.linkcat“, and the comma to delimit from the other style names, of course.

Created an Archives page according to the official WordPress instructions and tied it to the proper archive.php file.

Because I created the Archives page at the wrong page name, I had to edit the Header so it pointed to the right Page:

Edited header.php, changing the link to the Archives page to the right page name (line 49).

Created a Sitemap page in a similar way to the above creation of an Archives page.