I’ve spent a bunch of time tweaking the FallSeason WordPress Theme by Sadish Bala to work for me, and I’m pretty happy with the results.  I’ve left all the identifying information virtually intact, but I have changed the version number and added my name as a modifier so that the resulting theme can be distinguished from the original.  Here are the changes I’ve made.

Style Changes
  1. Added a style for the h2 tag for the sidebar so that category names aren’t displayed in a very large font.  Instead they are displayed smaller than the Links widget title but still larger than the links themselves.
  2. Modified the h5 tag style so that it would be bolded again.  I use the h5 style a lot in my posts as a header so I need it to stand out.
  3. Changed the blockquotes style so that the double-quote image is not displayed and a border is displayed on the left.  This also required the text padding to be reduced.
  4. Adding an a:visited style so that visited and unvisited links will show up differently.  Visited links are displayed without any border on the bottom, while unvisited links are displayed with a dashed line on the bottom.
  5. Removed img tag style so that the border and extra padding would no longer be added for images.  This allows smiley images to be displayed with less extra space around them and allows the text to flow better.
  6. Added some table styles to mimic Microsoft Word 7.  See styll.css for details.  (v1.1.drp.1 - 10/2/2007)
  7. Added a table cell style so that text is padded from cell borders.  (v1.1.drp.1 - 10/2/2007)
  8. Added code and example formatting so that they stand out more.  Code and examples can be indented and shaded with a border surrounding them with the use of a simple div tag.  Use id=”code” and id=”example”.  See style.css for details.  (v1.1.drp.1 - 10/2/2007)
  9. Added a td style to vertically align data in tables at the top of cells.  (v1.1.drp.1 - 10/2/2007)
  10. Added a separate style for ordered lists so that the numbers for double-digit list items will be fully displayed.  (v1.2.drp.1 - 10/30/2007)
Sidebar ‘About’ Section Changes
  1. Allow any category that doesn’t have links or has posts to be selected as the Asides category.  This allows you to create the category and then immediately configure the theme to use that category before you’ve written any posts that use it.
  2. Added support for specifying a profile (aka user) to be used in the ‘About Me’ section so that clicking in that section will take the visitor to a page with info from your profile along with a list of posts.
  3. Display the first and last name from the specified profile in the About Me section.
  4. Allow profile info to be specified which would be displayed under the name in the About Me section.  You can also specify a keyword:
    1. [AboutYourself] - Will display the About Yourself text from the profile (requires a profile to be specified).
    2. [Tagline] - Will display the web sites tagline.
  5. Allow the picture displayed in the About Me section to be specified in the UI.  A drop-down will be filled with each image that has been uploaded to the site.
Intro Section Changes
  1. Moved the intro text to the database.  (v1.2.drp.1 - 10/30/2007)
  2. Allow the intro text to be edited online without having to touch any files.  This has the added benefit that files can be copied to other blogs or can be shared without content going with it.  All content is stored in the database.  (v1.2.drp.1 - 10/30/2007)
  3. Allow the intro section to be displayed on every page.  (v1.2.drp.1 - 10/30/2007)
Plugin Support
  1. Added support for the WP-Email plugin from Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan.
  2. Added support for the WP-Print plugin from Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan.
  3. Added support for the WP-PostViews plugin from Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan.
  4. Added support for the WP-PostNav plugin from Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan.  (v1.1.drp.1 - 10/2/2007)
  5. Added support for the cross-references plugin from Francesc Hervada-Sala.  (v1.2.drp.1 - 10/30/2007)
  6. Fixed support for the WP-Email plugin.  (v1.2.drp.2 - 10/31/2007)
Miscellaneous Changes
  1. Minor grammatical fixes to the 404 page.
  2. Added the WordPress version to the footer.
  3. Added controls to the theme page to allow the sidebar to be displayed either at the top with the sidebar underneath (the default) or to the left with the sidebar on the right.
  4. Added navigation to the previous and next post to the top of single posts (like in the default theme).  (v1.1.drp.1 - 10/2/2007)
  5. Formatted boxes evenly on the admin page.  (v1.2.drp.1 - 10/30/2007)
  6. Display the comment number instead of the pound sign (#).  (v1.2.drp.1 - 10/30/2007)
  7. Integrated Sadish’s changes for WordPress 2.3 compatibility.  (v1.2.drp.1 - 10/30/2007)
Still Investigating/Working On

Problems I’m still working on:

  1. Gravatars in comments extend below the bottom of the comment shading in some cases.

Features I’m still working on:

  1. Include links in the profile info which can link to an About page.
  2. Include the About page on the author page for the primary profile.
  3. Use the nicetitle feature from the Scattered 1.5 theme to display popup titles.
  4. Allow blog admin to enable the WP-Email, WP-Print, and WP-PostViews plugins selectively.
Resources

Note that I only tested this with IE7 against WordPress 2.2.3 and 2.3.1 and PHP 5.2.4.

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