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Looks great, save one thing. The meta text under the posts (Filed under, Permalink, etc.) is pretty unreadable at normal text size in Firefox. If I bump it up once, it’s okay though. Other than that, I like it.

You can use mod_rewrite. What it does is make http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?this=that&yes=no look like http://www.yoursite.com/this/that/yes/no or whatever you want.

Go to Options > Permalinks in the WordPress admin area. Read the instructions, decide how you want your links to look, write it out, then click Update Permalink Structure. What that will do is create some text for you to copy and paste into a file called .htaccess which sits in your root directory. Open it up (through your hosts’s file manager program, probably) edit that file, and paste that stuff in there. Should work like a dream.

I think so. It would be relatively simple, though. Something like

<img src="/path/to/image.jpg" alt="some alt text" />

and you’d put this just about the line that says

<?php include(ABSPATH . 'wp-comments.php'); ?>

which assumes that you’re using the standard WordPress index.php file, of course.

Small disclaimer: I’ve just started delving into the code of WordPress, so I might be off on this, but I think I’ve got a good enough grasp of the Loop as far as this goes.