New theme.

As soon as Firefox finished loading the smashing magazine article “83 Beautiful Wordpress Themes You (Probably) Haven’t Seen”, I knew I had to install the Redoable theme.

I did experience a few problems.

The first issue I noticed was the first comment on a post had a white background making that post impossible to read. I worked around this by changing the style.css file #commentlist li definition (line 995) to:

Second, padding around inline pictures. I’ve only used one inline picture so far, and I wanted the text to wrap around the picture. I was able to achieve this using:

However, the text of the post continues right next to the image with no spacing around it. I tried changing the padding and margins, and while Firefox would tell me that the styling had changed, the results were always the same. Still haven’t found a fix for this.

The next problem I encountered was with WPMU (WordPress Multi-User) and the Extended Live Archive plugin. I came across this post that explains the edits required to make the two work together. A couple of enables/disables via the Redoable options panel, and it still wasn’t working. The menu item for the archive page wasn’t being listed. It was however listed as a post in MarsEdit. After more disabling and enabling, and looking at the records in the database I came across this comment by Dean J. Robinson on the Redoable release 1.1 post, that explains creating the archive page normally with a page template of Archive. This worked, and I now have Extended Live Archive running.

Overall I’m very happy with the theme and how my blog now looks. There are still some minor issues, but I can live with them, for now. I will be keeping my eye out for new releases of Redoable, as it’s now getting a lot of attention, and more attention means more bugs found.

Thank you Dean J Robinson for making such an awesome theme.