Blog Theme Tweaked

Although I was very happy with the Blue Zinfandel Squared theme as it was out of the box there were one or two things about it that annoyed me so I spent this evening fixing them. I have to say I was very pleasantly surprised when I dove into the code, it was clear, simple and well documented! All my changes were minor, no more than a few lines of code each but they make things pretty much exactly as I want them. Anyhow, in case you care these are the tweaks I made:

I moved the search box up to the top of the side bar

Fixed the way the categories were shown – it wasn’t playing nice with nested categories

Added the full date to the information at the top of posts

Added an “edit” button to each post that only shows up when I’m logged in

Tweaked the way lists are rendered in posts

Tweaked the page header and footers a very small bit

And that’s it. That’s all the changes the theme needed. I really can’t give it high enough praise!