The site you’re looking at is styled with a child theme. WordPress introduced child themes in version 2.7 and they’re great. It means that you can cleanly modify an existing theme, and if the original writer publishes an update, your changes will simply be applied on top of theirs. The CSS file for the theme I’m using now looks like this:
/* Theme Name: Ari Cerealkillers Child Theme Description: Minor modifications to Ari Author: Stephen Willey Author URI: http://cerealkillers.co.uk/about Version: 0.1 Template: ari */ @import url("../ari/style.css"); ul.really_simple_twitter_widget li { padding-bottom:5px; border-bottom:1px dotted #CCCCCC; margin-bottom:5px; } ul.really_simple_twitter_widget li:last-of-type { padding-bottom:0px; border:none; margin-bottom:0px; } .widget_sociallinks { width:100px; } ul.sidebar li.widget_sociallinks { float:left } ul.sidebar li.widget_sociallinks a.lfp { background:url(images/lfp-icon.png) 0 0 no-repeat; } .wp_syntax { border:none !important; } |
You can see that all I’ve done is add some styling to the ‘Latest Tweets’ widget on the right, and set a fixed width for the social links on the left (it helps them appear in a nice grid on mobile devices). If elmastudio (whose themes are fantastic) publish a change, I can just update through the admin interface and all should be well.
Child themes. Use ’em. They’re great. Find more info on the codex here