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It’s been awhile since I’ve done an install that wasn’t “one-click” through my hosting company, so I don’t remember the particulars of the database side of things. Forgot about that part, actually. I believe you can install another WP database in one sql database, but the prefixes would need to be different. Hopefully someone else can spot this and help on that end for ya.

To be safe, I don’t think you’d want to do a copy/duplicate job, but rather completely install a fresh version of WP. The only copying you’d want to do is any theme files you use in your current version that you’d like to duplicate in the new blog.

Create a directory called “shop” or whatever, and install it there.

If you want the same look, you can copy the appropriate theme file into the wp-content directory after you install WP in the new directory.

It’s under the Options tab. I forget the exact path, but there’s a list with options on how you want your permalinks to show.

(In fact, it might even be under a “Permalinks” tab.)

It’s in the style.css file.

#header {
	background: #73a0c5 url('images/kubrickheader.jpg') no-repeat bottom center;
	}

Make sure the dimensions of your new header match those of kubrickheader.jpg (or at least will fit the space), and that your new header goes in the same directory (or correct the path) and you should be set.

The YGo themes are fantastic. I’m currently using one at my site, and have been trying to think of uses for YGoLively, or at least an adaptation of it. Good work!

I usually follow the guidelines mythusmage suggested. Unless I *really* break apart a theme, I keep the credits in the style.css intact. If they’ve included a link in the footer (and assuming no “directions” re: terms of use), I’ll keep it if I haven’t changed much.

At the very least, the “Based on…” idea is always a good one, considering the fact that even if you feel like you’ve changed the entire look, you’ve likely kept good chunks of code that someone else may have taken awhile to work out.

In the case of the original question, I’d probably use “Based on…” in the footer, especially if one exists currently.

I’m not sure that I totally follow you with the download stuff, but as far as “wrapping the blog shell around it”, you can just take the “Main Index Template” code (or “index.php”, or whatever it may be called in a particular theme), copy it, save it as “download.php” and then put your javascript, etc. in the “main” div, keeping the PHP that wordpress uses to get the header, footer, sidebar, etc. Kinda like this:

<?php get_header(); ?>
<div id="main">
    PUT YOUR JAVASCRIPT AND SUCH HERE
</div>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Beyond that, maybe someone else can help with the references and such for the download tracking.

I still haven’t tried it, but the link I sent could probably be switched so that you have a different theme each month, and possibly further to get into a range of dates within a month (or a specific day, kind of like Google does with their header images on holidays).

Unfortunately, I’m not as skilled as I thought to try to make all of that happen quite yet, but I might play around with it.

It’s not too bad. Might take some trial and error, but finding out what the various parts of that code mean and switching them out shouldn’t be too bad. I don’t know all that much PHP either, but I’ve learned a ton by deconstructing WP themes and code like this.

I couldn’t find it in a brief Googling earlier, but I have seen a Javascript example that changes the whole look of the page (swaps CSS files) depending on what time of day it is, if you know Javascript better, you could probably achieve a similar result.

Not sure about a plug-in, but if you know (or are willing to work with) PHP, this might be able to be tweaked to achieve a similar result:

https://bonrouge.com/br.php?page=faq#time-pic

This is totally off the top of my head, but you may want to put it in the theme folder with the header.php, category.php, etc. so everything is on the same directory level.

the Options menu on the admin panel has a check for “Users must be registered/logged in to comment” under the General tab, and a bunch of other related options under the Discussion tab.

That’s odd. I assume you’ve checked in the other .php files, in case they threw everything in one?

Which theme are you using and what’s the link to your site?

Presentation>Theme Editor from the admin panel. You should have a “header.php” file listed to the right that will have all that information in it.

Seems like a lot of busy work with all WP can do, but I’ll take it, and it works great. Thanks a bunch!