    Wordpress and Smarty Templates
    ==============================

    What is it?
    ===========
    Smarty Templates make it much easier to change the look and feel of
    your weblog.
    Using them we can seperate out the PHP code that runs the site and
    the actual html and content very easily. They're good for
    us, the developers and good for you, the weblog owner!
    This directory is here because in the future it'll be possible to
    run several weblogs from one WordPress installation. The different
    blogs will live in sub-directories of this one.

    How?
    ====
    Smarty support in Wordpress is still very much in the testing phase
    but it's usable today if you follow the instructions below:

    1. Go to http://smarty.php.net/ and download the latest stable
       release of Smarty. It's version 2.5.0 at the time of writing.
    2. Install Smarty in the WP directory. (That usually means copying
       Smarty_Compiler.class.php, Smarty.class.php and Config_File.class.php)
    3. Create a folder here called "main". In that folder create two
       more folders: "templates" and "templates_c".
    4. The folder "templates_c" should be writable by the web server.
       In a UNIX environment, the easiest way to do that is with
       "chmod 777 templates_c", or changing the owner of it to the
       same user that runs the web server. In a Windows environment
       fat32 you probably don't need to do anything, but in NTFS
       there may be some messing around to do.
    5. The folder "wp-sitetemplates" in the main WP folder holds
       example template(s). Currently, there's only one, so copy
       wp-sitetemplates/main/templates/*html into wp-blogs/main/templates/

    In Unix:
    (download and install Smarty.. DIY!)
      mkdir
      mkdir main
      mkdir main/templates
      mkdir main/templates_c
      chmod 777 main/templates_c
      cp ../wp-sitetemplates/main/templates/*.html main/templates/

    Open up your browser at the place where WP is installed, and launch
    index-smarty.php!
    If your installation isn't a live one, then it's probably worth
    overwriting index.php with index-smarty.php, making backups if necessary.

    If you encounter any problems please visit the forums on
    http://wordpress.org or email me at donncha@linux.ie