kino, one of Geeklog.jp members, suggests enabling functions.php to be used in theme-related COM_* functions other than COM_siteHeader and COM_siteFooter, such as

• COM_getBlockTemplate
• COM_renderMenu
• COM_startBlock
• COM_endBlock
• COM_optionList
• COM_topicList
• COM_checkList
• COM_showTopics
• COM_userMenu
• COM_adminMenu
• COM_showBlock
• COM_showBlocks
• COM_formatBlock
• COM_makeList

and so on.

With these modifications, it will be a lot easier to create a new theme, we believe.

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