i feel that i should add a few notes as an addendum to my previous post — call it the “companion pack,” if you will
- after you modify the “default” folder in the “wp-content\themes” directory, make a copy of it and rename it to something… anything…
- i found this out the hard way. wordpress just recently did a string of updates (currently 2.8.2) and every time i’d do an update, my site would revert back to the default layout
- luckily i had all my files locally so i was able to re-upload to the default folder
- it only took me 3 upgrades to figure out that i had to rename the folder so that wordpress wouldn’t overwrite my work