Thanks Alexander, that’s excellent advice! I didn’t know there was such a thing as a “child theme” so I’ll set about making one. I’ve actually implemented the “the_content()” thing already and it works (you have to do it in “featured.php” too, and add a filter to “the_content()” to prevent it from including images and make a slight CSS tweak for paragraph spacing, but basically it works quite well. I’ve made a handful of other tweaks here and there so I’ll port those to the child theme also.
It really is a wonderful theme – so feature rich and so well designed, and works beautifully on mobile devices as well as the screen. Thank you so much for making it available!
I’ve also made a change here because mine is a photography blog and I don’t want the theme making decisions about photographic composition by cropping my photos. However I’m concerned that I have now modified the raw code within the theme, breaking compatibility with upgrades. Is it feasible for this to be made into a configurable setting?
