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After choosing Aspire as the theme for my blog, I try to dig potential power of this nice theme. The first encounter is error on displaying the month dan date for post item. Date format is wrong and does not fit to the date placehoder given. This problem has been stated in the creator website and solution available. You should change date format used in the template files.

Original code:
<?php the_time('d') ?>

Modified to :
<?php the_time('d') ?> for the date part and <?php the_time('M') ?> for the month portion.

Second problem I found is show post count feature on Categories and Archive widget on the sidebar. Here’s the detail.

categories widget

When you use this option, the number of post count display under categories, not besides them. This one make me bother since it distract the layout. I think it’s CSS problem and I am not good at CSS. So, I post a question on the creator website but until now, no one answer or post any comment about this. (what do you expect from free service ? no full support available but it’s oke then.)

css problem

Following this, I try to learn some CSS things and read some documentation on the net with my Firefox. I also remember that I have installed some ‘must-have’ add ons of Firefox for web developer. So, I try to analyze the wrong code using Web Developer and FireBug after reading some manual documentation. And bingo ! I found the problem.

Original code:

#sidebars ul li a {color:#602600; padding:2px 0px 2px 15px; display:block; background: url(images/sb-marker.gif) 3px 7px no-repeat;}

Modified code:

#sidebars ul li a {color:#602600; padding:2px 0px 2px 15px; display:inline-block;background: url(images/sb-marker.gif) 3px 7px no-repeat;}

And the problem solved !