Community Server Blog Themes: Update Kid Congo Theme

In the Kid Congo theme I missed what should have been obvious as Ben points out in his email to me.

If you are copying and modifying the Kid Congo theme, there is one hiccup:

It appears that the Kid Congo theme (and others) have a relative-to-root reference to theme.master -- so if you made a copy of Kid Congo named "Kid Congo 2", "Kid Congo 2" will still use the "Kid Congo" theme's theme.master file.

To update "Kid Congo 2", edit all of the ASPX pages in the theme and correct the MasterPageFile URL on the <%@ Page %> directive.

Assigning the URL of the theme.master file in the copied theme folder will allow you make changes to the master file that will affect the theme.

-Ben

I have been able to expand the "Tag Cloud" across the two sidebars; see http://communityserver.org/forums/t/485595.aspx and finally expanding and adding the about content above the tag cloud. In this post http://communityserver.org/forums/p/485638/572636.aspx#572636 Ben explains how to add the about link which I probably did not make myself clear as I was wanting to add the content, I went over to the about.aspx and copied the code there and then added it above the <CSBlog:TagCloud /> control above the <div class="sidebarleft">...</div> node and wrap it in a <div style="clear: both;">...</div> tag. 

<div style="clear:both">

<CSBlog:WeblogData ID="WeblogData1" Property="AboutTitle" runat="server" Tag="h3" CssClass="contentheading" />

<CSBlog:WeblogData ID="WeblogData2" Property="AboutDescription" runat="server" />

 </div>

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