ravisarma

ofpeb, to get rid of the “Site” and “Comments” bar, you can do one of two things: edit style.css and add to the bottom:

#rsslinks
{
    display: none !important;
}

That’s the quick and dirty way. Or you can remove the below section from header.php:

<div id='rsslinks'>
    <div class='capsule'>
    <a href='<?php bloginfo('comments_rss2_url'); ?>'>
    <img border='0' align='top' alt='Comments RSS'
        src='<?php print bloginfo('template_directory') . "/images/rss-icon.gif"; ?>' />
    <span title='Subscribe to the RSS feed for the comments on this site'>Comments</span>
    </a>
    </div>
    <div class='capsule'>
    <a href='<?php bloginfo("rss2_url"); ?>'>
    <img border='0' align='top' alt='Site RSS'
        src='<?php print bloginfo('template_directory') . "/images/rss-icon.gif"; ?>' />
    <span title='Subscribe to the RSS feed for the posts on this site'>Site</span>
    </a>
    </div>
    <?php if( $options['showloginout'] == 1 ) { ?>
    <div class='capsule'>
    <?php wp_loginout(); ?>
    </div>
    <?php } ?>
</div>

Regarding moving the adsense banner up, I do not see one in your page now — perhaps too late, but if you still need help, you can contact me at the email address in my first comment above.

Finally, regarding the “disgusting” comment from “tomontoast”, I guess he is referring to my HTML/CSS changes to the default theme, or to the default theme markup itself. Trenchant criticism, for sure.

ofpeb, I just saw this post while searching the forum. Do you still need help? I am the author of the theme and I can help, if you need it.

Commander Keen, I have not tried my theme on a Windows server… could you possibly post the exact error message you see when you Thank you to load a skin, etc? The theme code has to look into the absolute filesystem path to load the file, so that shouldn’t be the problem…

Yazman1955, funnily enough I use Subscribe to Comments on my blog (http://ahren.org/code/) which uses my Ahimsa theme, so one easy check you can do is to leave a comment on my blog and see if you get emailed responses ;-).

In the post by Joseph Scott (http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/04/23/comment-reply-via-email-open-to-all/) announcing this feature, Matt responded to a comment asking the above question, by suggesting a commenting system like Intense Debate. So, I suspect this is not coming (at least in near future) to non-wordpress.com WP blogs.

My problem with Disqus, Intense Debate (though to be honest I have not used ID, so maybe I am wrong) is that they break the theme styling for the comments section. So I too would like this feature. To implement it for generic WP blogs they will need to add some more code to let us specify a From address and then use that address. Also a mechanism to feed responses back into WP would be needed.

I am just guessing here, so please use caution:

In wp-includes/formatting.php is a function sanitize_user() — perhaps that’s the place you should start looking. That the file is named formatting.php gives me pause… perhaps the class WP_User is where you should add your code. If you are not PHP proficient, you can ping me, and I can try to figure out the exact spot to add relevant code.

Also, have you checked to see if a plug-in already exists that implements this?

I do not think this is possible. I am looking through the WP code to find out how and where media metadata is stored (its not obvious from the DB schema), but my belief is that without the presence of such metadata (added when you upload the media using the WP uploader), the media won’t show up in the media manager.

Here’s what the docs say:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Media_Library_SubPanel

If you do need to upload Media, even if that Media is not related to a Post or Page, then you need to use the Media Add New SubPanel.

There are some plugins that attempt to present media from certain external sites (e.g: Flickr?) within the Media Manager. And there is one plugin that helps you incorporate independently uploaded files into the media manager, but the action is not automatic.