After extensive search I found Bytes for All’s Atahualpa, a WordPress theme that is customizable enough so I wouldn’t need to dive deep into CSS just yet. It supports a dynamically resizing main column plus 2 sidebars and lots of user definable parameters. Being a novice, I also installed, among others, the qTranslate plugin to support multiple languages in Ice Tea tech, in case I need it in the future.

To my surprise, as I’m afraid some of you noticed, post dates did not appear correctly. The date format was correct, but the date itself was wrong. To cut a long story short, in theory, WordPress supports any PHP function for date formatting, qTranslate supports the PHP “date” and “strftime” functions and Atahualpa, due to its highly configurable setting, seems to have the PHP “date” function hardwired in some places.

After some trial and error and with the valuable help of neTWire’s Vicki Kolovou it turns out that, actually, qTranslate only works correctly with the “strftime” type of date formatting. So, there is no way it can coexist with Atahualpa or Ikarus, another highly customizable theme I  tried.

I don’t have that much troubleshooting time for myself and Ice Tea tech’s environment is currently only in English. So, I’m sorry to report qTranslate had to go, at least for now. I hear it causes other issues, too. It’s a pity, as it otherwise really is a very well thought-out plugin…

It seems such issues are still commonplace. After this experience, my new definition for blog optimization is “the most functionality that actually works as it is supposed to”…

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