This theme, is not only elegant, but easy to use. Associated with the TPB plugin, it allows any users to add and manage personnal photos at breaze.

I pulled up my socks and made changes within the code to adapt theme to my wishes. Here are all the changes I’ve made through.

Code fixing

• Open short tag replaced
• All open short tag have been replaced with full tag (standard form)
  <? xxx ?> –> <?php xxx; ?>
  <?=xxxx?>  –> <?php echo xxx; ?>
• Reorder SQL statements
  Mostly for readability purposes, and maintenance.
• Rewrite <a href> dynamic clauses
  To have a proper formatting under (php) text editor, the delimiter “, initially within ‘if blocks’, has moved outside.
• blog.js, browser.js: bug fixing on panels srolling, code improvements.
• Code reorganization (new directory structure)
  All Ajax stubs are put together.
  CSS is splitted, and match the page hierarchy.
  global code reorganization.
• Archives.php
  Add the get_header() standard call.
  Image overflow bug corrected (conflict with browse-load.gif).
• Header.php
  Javascript object initialization (occured for blog.js and browser.js).
• page.php “templated” for all usage.
• Support of WordPress 2.9.2, Mootools-Core 1.2.4 and Mootools-More 1.2.4.4
• Tested on WampServer 2.0i
• Code correction to pass the HTML Validator!

Features changed

• Change Overlay panels usage (on both Home and Single pages)
  The change occurs inside index.php, I like to activate the scrollable panels upon both home and single pages.

New Features

• Keyboard support
  You can navigate with keys, open or close panels and advance or return to shots. See ‘About’ page for all keys.
• Dynamic comments content
  Comments are loaded thru AJAX, and displayed as a scollable panel. Like notes and exif panels.
• Optional Register and Login pages (Activation through the theme admin page)
  You can add to the upper menu, a link for Register and a direct link for login. Usefull if you want to open your blog for registration, and if you often change you blog configuration.
• Add tags and Taxinomy Categories. With the admin theme panel, you can select the following combination:
  → Year
  → Year + Tag
  → Year + Categories
  → Year + Tag + Categories
• Keep track of selected page, append a bold underline segment under page title (CSS+index.php).
• Footer
  The footer now details all sub-components and their release. It includes both post and comments feeds, and include the new copyright URL field.

So, you can download the modified theme here: Reflection Theme Extended (285), and see it in action there.