Serene Themes

I’ve updated number 2 as recommended and will upload the changes along with the others.

As for number 1. I’ve built the theme off of Thematic and I believe this may be a question for the guys from Thematic. I had a dilemma as to whether or not to include the translation files as provided by Thematic. I’ve been doing some work for a bilingual site that uses the WPML plugin, which I’ve found to be very useful. You can use the plugin to scan themes and plugins for strings and translate accordingly or choose to use the theme’s POT files. I just looked and Thematic hasn’t been updated in 10 months, so it’s possible that it’s been scrapped.

I believe you could override in a similar manner to how you overwrote the nav menu args.

function my_args($args) {
$args['logged_in_as'] = '<p>Some new input field here</p>';
return $args;
}
add_filter('cleanyetibasic_comment_form_args','my_args');

I believe I’ll remove the function from format-standard.php and leave it in format-image.php. That way the standard post format will not display an image, but can be accomplished through the image post format.

line 207 of widgets-extensions.php handles the code for the main container

function cleanyetibasic_container()

It basically changes the width from large-8 to large-12 based on whether or not the full-width page template is chosen or if the sidebar is active.
I figured using css would be an easier way around than editing the files.

you would also have to edit sidebar-extensions.php

Also found a good link on overwriting functions in your childtheme here:
http://venutip.com/content/right-way-override-theme-functions

so you could do something like

function remove_container() {
   remove_action( 'cleanyetibasic_abovecontent', 'cleanyetibasic_container', 1 );
}
add_action( 'init', 'remove_conatiner' );

function childtheme_container() {
   ...
}
add_action( 'cleanyetibasic_abovecontent', 'childtheme_container', 1);