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Adding authors isn’t difficult but you will have to make a change or two in the php files. The wordpress php function giving the author name is (in the right context) the_author(). So for instance you could make a start by changing the line in the skimmed_milk_post_title function in the file functions.php from

<small><?php the_time(__('F jS, Y', 'skimmed')); ?></small>

into something like

<small>by <?php the_author(); ?> on <?php the_time(__(’F jS, Y’, ’skimmed’)); ?></small>

Read the wordpress docs for more info.

I’m in the process of starting a site for a bunch of creative friends to share inspiration they find on the net. I’d love to use Skimmed Milk …but do you know if there’s any way of displaying the author of each post?

I appreciate you might not be able to explain in detail, i’d just like to know if it’s possible… and if so, do you know of anywhere i can find out how?

Many thanks,

Nick

I first want to say that I am totally delighted with your Skimmed Milk theme. In January, when I started blogging, I spent some days searching for a theme, and coming across Skimmed Milk, immediately I knew this would be ‘my’ theme.

You may feel that I violated the purity of the theme by including a lot of images and widening the main column to 600 pixel in order to accommodate for a huge bulk of images I have processed in that format through the years. But I am an image person, and with either 5:1 horizontal banner images or right aligned 180 pixel wide images with variable height, I feel I found a good illustration modus.

A few days ago I encountered a small problem. Normally using IE7, I installed a Firefox browser, and here your Skimmed Milk Tag Cloud looks strange. Rather than a cloud, it is just a column of single words aligned left. Is it some general issue or is it something specific to my set-up/combination of plugins? I have no ability of CSS, so only change I made was the change of column width.

Only aspect of Skimmed Milk where I cannot grasp your design, is the comments section. For a unity of design feeling, I should prefer comments text to be aligned left. Also I have been pondering on the use of the grey shade under the comments. Rather than the on-off-on-off zebra effect, would it be smart that the grey shade indicated when the author was answering? - or even better, that external comments had the grey shade while the post and your answers had the white bottom? Also if at any point you are reconsidering the design, I would consider taking away the slightly darker top & bottom line of the grey shading. It calls for attention where no intention is needed.

Warm regards from Copenhagen,
Jens

Love the theme and wish to use it on my web site. Dont know anything about CSS etc so can you help with the following

1. Making skimmed milk a three column template
2. menus/links on the right side, posts toward the left hand side..

Thanks

Mike

That’s really cool! And thanks for sharing - I’ll add a link to you in the main post.

Cheers

I have translated Skimmed Milk to danish:

http://mads.eu/wordpress#milk

cheers

mads