README file
(shipped with the Dark Maple Theme)

The Dark Maple theme is distributed free under the same GPL
license as the original WordPress package. (See your WP folder
for the text of the license.)

Changelog.
2005-03-17
Corrected the placement of the paged navigation in index.php
Added styling for "paged" in style.css
Corrected the font size for children categories

Credits.
It is based on Gemini template for WordPress 1.3 designed and built 
by Root http://www.atthe404.com/, updated for 1.5 by Stuart 
http://thebombsite.com. Redistributed by 
not (that) ugly designs http://not-that-ugly.co.uk
The header photo is a copyrighted work of Bill Arnett 
http://bill.nineplanets.org/ and is ditributed free with his written
permission. Design by Moshu http://www.transycan.net/wp
(Links not required but appreciated :)

Installation.
The theme should work out of the box, just upload the files into your
wordpress_location/wp-content/themes folder in a directory called 
"maple". Then go to your admin panel > Presentation and select it.
The unzipped package should contain the following files and
folders:
images directory
	bgle.gif	/*right menu background*/
	bigleaf.jpg	/*header img*/
archive.php		/*template for seeing archived posts by category, day, month etc.*/
archives.php	/*template for seeing archives listing by months and categories*/
comments.php
comments-popup.php
footer.php
header.php
horizontal.php	/*the horizontal menu*/
index.php		/*Main/Default Template*/
page.php		/*page template*/
search.php		/*search result template*/
searchform.php	/*can be called anywhere in any page*/
searchpage.php	/*search page template*/
sidebar.php		/*the right side menu*/
single.php		/*template for seeing single posts*/
style.css

Customization.

Horizontal Menu.

If you are not using it, comment out the call for "horizontal.php" 
in the archive.php, archives.php, index.php, page.php, 
single.php, search.php. 
E.g. this line 
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/horizontal.php'); ?>
should look like 
<?php include// (TEMPLATEPATH . '/horizontal.php'); ?>

If you want to link to certain "static" Pages (like archives, search etc.) 
from the horizontal menu, create the Pages (see Codex 
http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages) and hard code the link in the list 
in horizontal.php. It should be <?php bloginfo('url'); ?> and a page_id 
(/?page_id=11) or the page slug (/archives) - depending whether you are 
using permalinks or not.
E.g. 
<li><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/?page_id=10">Archives</a></li>
or <li><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/archives">Archives</a></li>
About creating Search and/or Archives pages, see Appendix bellow.

You can also manually highlight menu items on the home page of your 
blog or on Pages like Archives, Search etc. You have to add an 
id="active", in the horizontal.php like below:
<li id="active"><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>">Home</a></li>

When linking to some Pages from horizontal menu you probably will 
want to hide those Pages in the page list on the right sidebar. You can 
achieve this by using the 'wp_list_pages' tag with the proper 
parameters (see Codex:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_pages#Example_5) 
and/or the comments in the sidebar.php, line 14.

Changing the date format. 

See also Codex: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags in the 
section Date and Time tags. 
You can find these tags here:
index.php - line 28
archive.php - line 60
single.php - line 31
search.php - line 39

Calendar.
You can hide or show the calendar in the sidebar. To hide it
comment out the calendar tag around line 50, like this:
<?php //get_calendar(); ?>

For further customization with the template tags, please, refer to the
Codex. Also notice the main files are commented so you would be able to
figure out where do you want to apply your changes.

l18n & l10n.
(a.k.a. Internationaliation and Localization)
This version of the Dark Maple theme is NOT yet fully marked for
localization with gettext. We are working on it, and I will release
later a l18n version - just need some time.

Support.
If you are asking for technical support, bare in mind I am NOT a 
professional coder or designer, just a linguist who deals with human 
languages and not programming languages. However I'll do my best.
Advice: read the Codex (http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page), 
I got all my "knowledge" there.

Enjoy and have fun!

Moshu
http://transycan.net/wp
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Appendix.

For those technically challenged, like myself, here is a short guide
how to create a Search page and an Archive page to link them from the
horizontal menu.
1. In the admin go > Write > Write Page
2. Put the title as Search
3. Uncheck the Allow Comments; Allow Pings
4. Main (no parent) is OK
5. Scroll down and from the Page Template dropdown menu select: Search
6. DO NOT write anything in the content field
7. Click Create New Page
8. Where it says "Page saved" on the top, click "Manage pages"
9. Look for the ID number of your new page (named Search) and remember it
10. Open the "horizontal.php" file in a plain text editor
11. Chose the <li> item where you want your link (NOTE: the one at the bottom
will be the first in your menu!)
12. In the empty anchor tag <a href="#"> put the following:
		<?php bloginfo('url'); ?> and add at the end your page ID#
		<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>//?page_id=XX where XX is the ID of your page
	It should look like:
		<li><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/?page_id=11">Search</a></li>
	If you are using permalinks, you can replace the page_id=XX with the slug
13. Repeat the process for the Archives page using the Archives template
14. By this method you can create similar pages using one of the 3 templates
	OR
	you can create your own specific templates following the guides in the Codex
