The proper place to add them would be serendipity_genpage.inc.php, or you could always make Serendipity embedded.

What meta tag are you trying to add? Would it be useful to add to the main distribution, or is specific to you?

I don't speak German, either, but I went to that guy's site and searched for 'amazon'. The last result seems to be the plugin (English, via Google--don't copy the code from this one, though).

Significantly different probably doesn't involve every single little thing, so IMHO it would be best to just copy the stuff over as you need to. Your decision, though. With regards to every theme using the default layout.php: [tadpole@localhost templates]$ find -name layout.php ./default/layout.php ...

Needs a lot of work (it's on my todo list), but yes. Feel like bringing it up to production quality, by any chance? I've got kind of a lot on my plate...

You shouldn't do that. Copy as little over from the default as possible--if s9y can't find a file in your theme directory it tries the default. By having it fall back wherever possible you are better able to take advantage of enhancements in s9y without modifying your own files every time you update.

This has been on my brain-based TODO list for a while now--my server is +3 hours, and it's annoying. I promise to take care of this for 0.8.

Just added it to my blog-based TODO list so I'll remember.

Of couse you see errors--all the DirectoryIndex directive does is instruct apache to attempt to serve the content in a given file by default instead of giving you a directory listing. What error does it suppress? If users only want to use DirectoryIndex for a single directory, that is quite possible...

Most people don't want to have to append index.php to the request--how often do you go to google.com/index.html? Either one should work, which one is linked to can be configured in the admin section. The only problem this circumvents is the security implications of having directory listings enabled....

I'm going to assume you use Apache. If so, you can just use the DirectoryIndex configuration directive.

Just modify your CSS file a bit more;

#serendipity_banner h1 { display: none; }

You may want to do the same for h2--it looks like you've tried to get rid of those elements by hacking the source code. If you just use CSS, it will be much easier to update Serendipity.

Done. Well, mostly--there's a bit to do i18n-wise... Please test it, and if you find any bugs just leave a comment on that entry. Thanks.

I'm guessing this post was inspired by my MT code? Anyways, I'm planning on going through the list of competing software one by one, and WP is next.

Take a look at path/to/s9y/sql/db.sql. The structure for the comments table is: create table {PREFIX}comments ( id {AUTOINCREMENT} {PRIMARY}, entry_id int(10) {UNSIGNED} not null default '0', parent_id int(10) {UNSIGNED} not null default '0', timestamp int(10) {UNSIGNED} default null, title varchar(...