Antanarive

A starting point:
http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Create_A_Network

Salut!

Sorry for the misunderstanding. A quick google search seems to indicate that you can just copy the header.php in your child theme folder, and modify it. It would then be taken into account automatically.

This is what I understand when reading this:

Copy header.php to your Child Theme folder and edit it there. In WP 2.6 you’ll need to use WordPreciousss for WP to see it but 2.7 will recognize it automatically.

I have never done it… but I’ll be interested to hear the result of your testing… 🙂

Using my own child theme for Thematic Framework theme, I simply used the following function to override the default footer generation:

function my_footer($thm_footertext) {
	$thm_footertext = 'Powered by
        <a href="http://www.ww.wp.xz.cn">WordPress</a>.
        Built with
        <a href="http://www.themeshaper.com/thematic">
        Thematic Theme framework</a> and my own child theme:
        <a href="http://www.antanarive.com/blog/prodigal-son/">
        Prodigal Son</a>.';
        return $thm_footertext;
}
add_filter('thematic_footertext', 'my_footer');

This is your HTML:

<ul id="nav-cat" class="clearfloat">
<li class="cat-item cat-item-3"><a href="http://updatehawaii.com/?cat=3" title="View all posts filed under Events">Events</a>
</li>
<li class="cat-item cat-item-15"><a href="http://updatehawaii.com/?cat=15" title="View all posts filed under Financial">Financial</a>
</li>

This is very strange HTML, as each li item has a class name containing what looks like an ID. Does not seem right at all.

Anyway, in that case, you’ll just need to try and adjust the CSS the left and/or right padding for the relevant li items like this:

#nav-cat li {
       padding-left: 0;
       padding-right: 0;
}

Replace 0 with the value you want, and this will apply only to <li> item inside the item of the class “cat-item”: the <ul>.

Aranath,

You will have to look for the precise function that is building the line containing that text, as the bottom of posts.

I am personnaly using the Thematic Framwork theme, that I am customizing. The default function to generate the post footer is in the file content-extension.php and is the following:

// Create post category
function thematic_postfooter_postcategory() {

    $postcategory = '<span class="cat-links">';
    if (is_single()) {
        $postcategory .= __('This entry was posted in ', 'thematic') . get_the_category_list(', ');
        $postcategory .= '</span>';
    } elseif ( is_category() && $cats_meow = thematic_cats_meow(', ') ) { /* Returns categories other than the one queried */
        $postcategory .= __('Also posted in ', 'thematic') . $cats_meow;
        $postcategory .= '</span> <span class="meta-sep meta-sep-tag-links">|</span>';
    } else {
        $postcategory .= __('Posted in ', 'thematic') . get_the_category_list(', ');
        $postcategory .= '</span> <span class="meta-sep meta-sep-tag-links">|</span>';
    }
    return apply_filters('thematic_postfooter_postcategory',$postcategory); 

} // end thematic_postfooter_postcategory

As you see, it contains the words “Posted in”, which could be replaced by your preferred words. That means you would edit the theme directly
(In my case, I did something esle, since I am not directly editing the theme, but creating a child theme).

It is not so complicated if you know how to add some lines in the CSS of your theme.

From the code you pasted above, it seems that the recent posts list is a sub-unordered list with id equal to recent-entries. Therefore, what you want to modify in CSS is the space between <li> elements that are within a <li id="recent-entries"> element.

Adding space between li elements can be done by specifying some increased bottom margin.

So, in total, we would have something like:

#recent-entries li {
	margin-bottom: 1em;
}

I am using the Thematic Framework Theme, and I am slowly creating a child theme for it. In my child theme, I have removed the “Published by…”, the author’s name and the vertical separator, by adding my custome function to the function.php file of the child theme. No modification of CSS for that one.

function my_postheader_postmeta(){
	$postmeta = '<div class="entry-meta">';
	// $postmeta .= thematic_postmeta_authorlink();
	// $postmeta .= '<span class="meta-sep meta-sep-entry-date"> | </span>';
	$postmeta .= thematic_postmeta_entrydate();
	$postmeta .= thematic_postmeta_editlink();
	$postmeta .= "</div><!-- .entry-meta -->\n";
	return $postmeta;
}
add_filter('thematic_postheader_postmeta','my_postheader_postmeta');

The custom function above is a copy paste of the original function with just two lines commented out, as you can see.