• Fixed the Archives to actually display past posts.
• Fixed the pagination links to actually fit the theme, and refined some of the locations they show up.
• Worked on showing multiple posts where they fit, and not where they don’t. I think I need to get Dusty to use the "<!--more -->" tag.
• Addressed some other minor styling issues.

The next thing to work out is the comment styling.  It looks a bit forgotten right now, because it sort of has been.

I’m not 100% convinced I like the blockquotes I came up with, but they are an improvement and functional.

Adding the social network links was simple EXCEPT for Facebook giving me a ridiculous run around.  It is pretty easy to come up with the URL linking to your public search profile; I found it on the Badges page.  What is more difficult to figure out is that my search listing was not activated, so I kept getting 404s on the link.  Once I finally found the damn checkbox buried in the privacy controls the whole thing worked fine.

I decided to use FeedBurner despite some recent hiccups with the service.  I’ve never had an issue with it, and the plug-ins are out there to use easily.  You can follow Jabberwocky Design’s feed here; I’m lumping everything together for the time being, but I might spllit into at least two feeds in the near future.  In addition I’m looking at Twitme to syndicate posts directly to Twitter.  This post will test that as well.

So with that, I think I can call this Vorpal 0.5.  I still need to fix the IE issues, but those should be quick to do, and IE is terrible anyways.  I’ve still got some big things to fix here, but I think things are on the mark as far as syndication and social-ness are concerned.

The goal is to have some significant improvements on the Vorpal theme by Sunday.  I list them here as a self-challenge to see how well I do:

1. Accommodate (at least partially) IE7 CSS-wise
2. Polish some design elements (lists, blockquotes, etc)
3. Setup social media linking (Twitter, FaceBook, etc)
4. Get the RSS working.

Not a small bit of work, but neither anything I shouldn’t be able to get done.  With these squared away I’d be a lot closer to having a “finished” theme here.

I added a contact form using a plugin written by my friend James, so thanks to him for that.

I’ve also started to style the comments, but that can prove a little hard to do when there aren’t any real comments to style (hint hint).

• Hard coded part of the main_nav, the Work and Blog pages
• Some markup fixes
• Styling tweaks

I’m still having some trouble with selecting the Featured post by tag rather than by category.

The basic idea is to have a relatively minimalistic theme that allows a good distinction betwwen its areas.  It seems likely that projects that I work on will need to be updated less frequently than the blog area.  I’m not sure if this is the best structure or not, but I’m going with it for now.

More as a note to myself, I will track the changes I make to the theme here; maybe it will be interesting/useful to someone someday to see a WordPress noob test the waters.

Version 0.4

• Added dynamic body classes thanks to dead simple instructions from Elliot Jay Stocks.  I tried some other methods first, but wasn’t having any luck.  This led me to the next problem…
• Until now I’ve been using Pages as the main navigation.  I now feel I need to make the switch over to using nested Categories.  That seems like it will more efficiently organize things here.  I think I was kind of bastardizing Pages to make them work.
• Added 404.php