Handling of comment display is a little more intelligent now in the sp theme: Entries that have comments disabled and have no existing comments, will not show the comments count and link, the comments feed link, or the comment area and form - not even a “no comments” message. It is assumed such a post is not intended for comment....

In the sprit of “dog food” and all that, overnight I upgraded joshix.com to the razor edge of Habari svn. I’d been running on the stable 0.5.2 release here, but the urge to develop and test against my own little use case is too strong.

A new version of sp is packaged up for download. It includes a fix to make the theme login page show session messages (thanks to rick_c), updates the theme’s use of a few changed Habari functions, and includes some CSS work that we now use as a base in other projects.

Update of the sp theme for Habari versions ≥ svn revision 2907 (aka 0.6-alpha) is available over at the testing server. Version 0.6.2 of sp updates from $user to $loggedin to fix the login box, synchronizes some CSS class names with Simplish (for my convenience), shrinks the header background image down by 5 more bytes, and removes unnecessary conditionals in ...

After a week of political, um, let’s call it tone poetry, back to more pleasant business with:

I think I have hacked sp into a usable — and more importantly, releasable — condition. Of course, I’m new to Habari so there will certainly be some things I can improve.