[wp-hackers] Themes support

[Allan Mertner]

Hi Ryan,

>It's all in there.  I have Kubrick and some other things running as
>themes.
>  
>
I don't think it quite is. I downloaded and installed Kubrick (very nice 
theme, btw!) and it uses a WP 1.2-style index.php where everything is in 
that file; in 1.3, there is a nice separation of concerns.

I have created a test theme where the sidebar, header, footer etc. are 
in separate files, like the new v1.3 index.php and associated files now 
look for.  I would like the theme to not include index.php and just use 
the default one, which should load the sub-files to plug in a new header 
and footer and leave the rest in peace, for example. 

This is not currently possible, and doesn't work even if I copy the 
default index.php into my theme. I imagine that this is how people will 
try to make themes in the future: copy some or all of the default  files 
and edit them.  The reason why it doesn't work is that all of the 
"include" files are loaded from ABSPATH, which is always the root of 
your installation and not a themes dir.

OTOH, I don't think it requires a lot of changes for it to work really 
nicely.

Thoughts?
Allan