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Tweaking Wordpress: Theme Unnamed Lite by Xu Yiyang

Funny theme name: “Unnamed Lite“, isn’t it.

After my heavily customized theme Blocks have been pulled to pieces after my final optimization attempt, I’ve been looking for a theme, which does offer the features I like to have, without screwing around to much.

Theme Unnamed Lite seems to be my candidate so far. These are the following advantages I’ve found out so far:

• unobtrusive look
• three columns
• my widgets fits all into the sidebars
• upload of a custom header image
• the SI CAPTCHA plugin is playing nicely with this theme

What took a heavy surgical intervention on theme Blocks, most things worked here out of the box. No width corrections for the sidebars, no header image adjustment in the sources. SI CAPTCHA works flawlessly.

The few things I didn’t like about this theme, where pretty much easy to correct.

• Sidebars doesn’t show up in Single- and Page view. I’ve simple inserted this in sidebar.php in line 162:

  || is_single() || is_page()

  right after this:

  <?php /* Frontpage */ if (is_home() 

  Frontpage occurs only once, so it’s easy to find.

• This Blog relies on code citing with “<pre>sample code here</pre>”, so it’s absolutely unacceptable if code is truncated. Add this (somewhere) to your style.css (the following is such a block):

  pre {
          overflow:scroll;
  
  }

• Also tables are too much understated or unremarkable. I’ve simply colorized them a bit. Add this add the end of your styles.css

  table {
  
          background:#FFF;
  
          border:1px solid #B0BEC7;
  
  }
  
  table tr td {
  
          border-top:1px solid #B0BEC7;
  
  }
  
  table tr th {
  
          background:#FAFDEC;
  
          text-align:left;
  
  }

• And finally, but that's not worth mentioning it, I've changes a few captions regarding the comments.php. Since an mail address isn't mandatory, I've added the text "Optional".

In my eyes, it's an manageable work for a theme which you are satisfied with, isn't it.
Should I loose these settings, e.g. with the new Wordpress 2.8 "upgrade automatically" feature, it's now documented for me, and I can redo the work again.

It's a nice theme anyway.

Thanks Mr. Yiyang.