Nope, that’s not a reference to my attitude for the day, although it is supposed to rain most of the day. Christmas Blue is the name of the WordPress theme I’m currently using and will keep up until just after the new year. A little note to any WordPress blog hosts that have decided to use this theme as is. The theme will negate your blog stats. My stats have showed zero hits on the site for the past 3 days, which coincidentally is when I started using the Christmas Blue theme. After doing a little research, I found that it was a problem with the footer.php file. The easiest solution is to copy over the footer.php file from the default WordPress theme and use that going forward. This will remove the “stop snowing” and “change wind direction” options from the footer. This will also remove any reference to the people that created the theme. Oh well.

Anyway, I’d like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. I should probably attempt to get out of bed now.

Update (12/28/2008): After further review, changes were made to get the best of both worlds. The footer.php file now includes all the references and abilities that came with the Christmas Blue theme, and the blog stats function now works.