Yes, that does help, thanks!
I do not have a multi language blog, so I plain forgot about that possibility. Just looks like me

It seems that bug is already fixed and only needs to be released, e.g. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=873926 If someone is really concerned about that issue, one can patch ones theme manually, e.g. --- a/templates/default/comments.tpl +++ b/templates/default/comments.tpl @@ -1,5 +1,5 @...

Thanks for the pointer to the example. Now that I read it I suddenly figured out that copying over the `config.inc.php` is kinda silly, I only need a file with the lines: <?php include_once S9Y_INCLUDE_PATH . 'templates/2k11/config.inc.php'; /* customizations might follow below this line */ and ever...

Wow, this "engine template" thing worked like a charm; well, it worked for me after I figured out the following: it is of no use to add or change the 'engine:' line while using the theme - one has to choose another theme and then revert back to the test theme, and only after that the chang...

I noticed that there the user.css (for 2k11 in my case) and I already used it a bit, but the fact that one can set up a chain via the info.txt was new to me, to thanks for telling me! I will try to read the code to figure out how it works. Also the idea to make a backup of the modified files is a go...

I noticed that the "Static Pages" plugin has a "Language" field in the edit form in the backend, but I cannot see where it is used in the frontend. I manually patched the plugin, so it uses it as the {$lang} variable in the public page, but I guess that is not the intended use fo...

I am currently setting up a blog with s9y and I would appreciate any advice on best practices how to customize themes in a way that makes upgrading the blog to a new version easy. I see in the documentation http://www.s9y.org/44.html the recommendation is to take an existing theme, copy it and adapt...