I’m going to list the changes I’ve made to WordPress to look and function the way it is today. This will probably change over time, but I feel as if it’s working pretty well right now. This information is for anyone trying to create something similar and for me to use as reference later if I need to recreate this again.
The theme I’m using is Devart by deniart. The few mods I’ve made to this theme are:
- Edited the /wp-content/themes/devart/images/author.gif (to show my pic instead of the default apple)
- Modified the /wp-content/themes/devart/style.css to change the way <code>, <ul>, <li> look
- Modified the style.css to add my twitter logo and link on the top right hand side of the page
- Modified the header.php page to add my twitter logo and link to the top right hand side of the page
- Had to add <?php wp_footer(); ?> to footer.php to launch stats code
- Added img#wpstats{display:none} to style.css to hide the 🙂 from stats plugin
I’ve also done the following to my setup:
- Followed these instructions to make my blog be at the root: http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory
- Installed the following stats plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/
- Change ‘blog roll’ to ‘Links of Interest’ (displays all links under links category)
- Installed http://lesterchan.net/wordpress/readme/wp-postviews.html to show how many views each page/post has received. Made the modifications required for this to show and work. Also modified the view_options in db to format the text a bit differently.
- Installed the Google Analytics plugin and created an account with them.