Mike Little, the author of this theme (Journalized), has released a WordPress 2.7-compliant version. Not only are widgets officially supported now (I had been using a self-hacked version), but tags, gravatars (which I will not be enabling) and threaded and paginated comments (which is coming with 2.7) are as well. Things should look only slightly different because I’m still using the Blue theme (I had been toying around with switching to Winter).
Naturally, I’ve done a wee bit of hacking. I had to put my randomized roll of bloat back in (the stock links widget is alphabetical with no way to change it), and make the search function stand out a bit more (the stock search widget is fugly, with no title).
Thanks, Mike. Glad to see you’re still alive.
Hi Steve, glad you like the updated theme.
Ooh I’ve just noticed the text in this box is really tiny! Hmmm… OK. line 214 of blue-skin.css has to go.
It’s in the rule for selector
#commentform textarea, #centreblock textarea, #menu textarea. The linefont-size: 90%;should be removed. I’ll need to issue an update.Anyway, I too think the default tags widget is too restrained! I think my next project might be a replacement for the built in tags widget. I think there are a couple of links widget plugins out there, but I’m not sure they do all one would want.
I just made that change in my copy. Hadn’t noticed that shrunk the text in the comment box. Guess that’s why it’s still officially a “beta”.
I’ve just started using tags, so I’m just finding out how ugly the tag widget is (I know I’m lazy, but I just didn’t feel like hacking support into the previous version). I tried to make a replacement links widget that allows one to control how the links are displayed, but I’m not quite that handy with the code. The closest I got was to hard-code the random display into the functions.php file (which is where I also put the Automattic-recommended change for the search box).