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Clear cache?

For the rounded corners there is a png background image for that, css cannot produce rounded corners (yet).

.box
background:transparent url(../images/bgr-box.png) no-repeat scroll left top;
border:medium none;

For the social network icons, he used a plugin called Sociable

.bottom a:link, a:visited{
color: #fff;
text-decoration:none;
}

Problem #1
You probably have that set in your css, possibly HTML.

Problem #2
no clue

How are the ads called upon? Are they adsense, or an affiliate, or do you use a wordpress ad plugin, or a seperate ad manager?

It should be relatively simple. Just look in your style.css, and you can change it to reflect your desires.

Try renaming the theme folder.

Here is what I did. I chose 1 category, which I wanted the 5 most recent posts to be displayed. I changed the code below to do this for you, I only changed 2 things.

There are a couple ways to skin this cat though, all depending on what you want and how you want it to look.

<?php
// enter the IDs of which categories you want to display
$display_categories = array(3); // the 4 categories selected
foreach ($display_categories as $category) { ?>
    <div class="clearfloat">
      <?php query_posts("showposts=5&cat=$category"); // see only ONE article
	    $wp_query->is_category = false;
		$wp_query->is_archive = false;
		$wp_query->is_home = true;
		 ?>
      <h3>
	  <a href="<?php echo get_category_link($category);?>">

	    <!--<a href="https://127.0.0.1/bsf/?page_id=154">-->

	    <?php
	// name of each category gets printed
	  single_cat_title(); ?>
        </a></h3>
      <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
      <?php
// this grabs the image filename
	$values = get_post_custom_values("droite");
// this checks to see if an image file exists
	if (isset($values[0])) {
?>
      <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><img src="<?php bloginfo('url'); echo '/'; echo get_option('upload_path'); echo '/'; $values = get_post_custom_values("droite"); echo $values[0]; ?>" alt="" /></a>
      <?php } ?>
      <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" class="title">
      <?php
// this is where title of the article gets printed
	  the_title(); ?>
      </a><br />
      <?php the_excerpt() ; ?>
      <?php endwhile; ?>
    </div>
    <?php } ?>

What I did was install Weasel’s HTML Bios plugin. This plugin allows you to put HTML code into the author bio via the wordpress admin.

This way, you could create the HTML necessary to display the Gravatar image. In reality, I would just take that image and self host it, instead of relying on the Gravatar service, displaying it using HTML.

I bet you have to enable php5.

You might have recently installed a plugin that is causing this, I would recommend that you begin uninstalling plugins, maybe you will find the one causing the issue.

Or, for some reason you might have been poking around your functions.php.

You would want to search for using wordpress as a CMS. What your trying to do is possible, simple, and popular.

You would go into your admin and probably remove widgets (in other words, undid what you did to create this problem).

If you depended on the admin link in your sidebar to get to your admin, that link would look something like this:
https://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin
In reality, most people take the meta widget out of the sidebar.

I’m sort of sure that is what you were needing.

You don’t need an adsense theme to have adsense, it can just make it easier.

Yes, the adsense plugin you found will work with most any theme (unable to say *all* themes, but unaware of a reason it wouldn’t work)

Also, putting adsense into wordpress is actually quite easy without a plugin or special adsense theme.

Hope this helps.

Normally you would do this within your wordpress admin, what your doing is just the harder way.
I have a feeling that you fixed this by now, by just clearing your cache.