johannes.jarolim.com/yapb-forum - adapting "Sandbox" theme

I'm using the Wordpress theme "Sandbox" as the basis of my theme. I'm having a hard time understanding how to adapt it to work with YAPB. It works pretty decent with the Automatic Template Insertion though. Is there any real reason I'd want to adapt the theme manually if the automatic insertion works good enough? What are the benefits and downsides?

But, back to actually adapting it. My loop code looks like this:

PHP Code:

<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post() ?>
            <div id="post-<?php the_ID() ?>" class="<?php sandbox_post_class() ?>">
                <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="<?php printf(__('Permalink to %s', 'sandbox'), wp_specialchars(get_the_title(), 1)) ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title() ?></a></h2>
                <div class="entry-date"><abbr class="published" title="<?php the_time('Y-m-d\TH:i:sO'); ?>"><?php unset($previousday); printf(__('%1$s – %2$s', 'sandbox'), the_date('', '', '', false), get_the_time()) ?></abbr></div>
                <div class="entry-content">
<?php the_content(''.__('Read More <span class="meta-nav">&raquo;</span>', 'sandbox').''); ?>

                <?php wp_link_pages('before=<div class="page-link">' .__('Pages:', 'sandbox') . '&after=</div>') ?>
                </div>
                <div class="entry-meta">
                    <span class="author vcard"><?php printf(__('By %s', 'sandbox'), '<a class="url fn n" href="'.get_author_link(false, $authordata->ID, $authordata->user_nicename).'" title="' . sprintf(__('View all posts by %s', 'sandbox'), $authordata->display_name) . '">'.get_the_author().'</a>') ?></span>
                    <span class="meta-sep">|</span>
                    <span class="cat-links"><?php printf(__('Posted in %s', 'sandbox'), get_the_category_list(', ')) ?></span>
                    <span class="meta-sep">|</span>
                    <?php the_tags(__('<span class="tag-links">Tagged ', 'sandbox'), ", ", "</span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"meta-sep\">|</span>\n") ?>
<?php edit_post_link(__('Edit', 'sandbox'), "\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"edit-link\">", "</span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"meta-sep\">|</span>\n"); ?>
                    <span class="comments-link"><?php comments_popup_link(__('Comments (0)', 'sandbox'), __('Comments (1)', 'sandbox'), __('Comments (%)', 'sandbox')) ?></span>
                </div>
            </div><!-- .post --> 

I guess I'm just kinda lost when it comes to PHP. I have a little knowledge, but when it comes to this, I just don't know where to even put in the "if (yapb_is_photoblog_post())" code. I tried putting it in front of this, and making the "else" what's already there, but that obviously didn't work.

Any guidance would be really appreciated.

Hi JonD25 -

Quote:It works pretty decent with the Automatic Template Insertion though.

So stay with that - You "would" have more possibilites to place the image in your theme if you'd adapt your theme manually, but that would require certain skills with xhtml and php. If you're satisfied with the default output - why hazzling around adapting your theme?

You could also opt to a Yapb-ready-theme or hire someone doing that for you. There are alot of coders out there offering WordPress Templating.

Greets from Salzburg!

Johannes

Hey, thanks for the reply. I ended up figuring it out. I probably would have been able to get the same thing out of the auto insertion, but I'm always up for a challenge. It helped me understand the workings of Wordpress a little better.

Oh, and here's the site I implemented it on. There's not a whole lot of content yet, but there will be. Thanks for the awesome plug-in.

http://days.claphammedia.com