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As I've been delving into Drupal theming I've discovered lots of gotchas.

The first one for today - when creating a sub-theme, if you want to override a template for a specific purpose you need to copy the parent theme's original file into your subtheme. A common example is wanting to have a custom page template for the hompage, which entails copying page.tpl.php to page-front.tpl.php. Because of a bug, aka poorly thought out "feature", your sub-theme must have a copy of both page-front.tpl.php and page.tpl.php.

I just realized something. When you're using Mollom to protect your site from spam, for the correct workflow to happen, i.e. visitors comments show up immediately if they are not considered spam, you'll want to set your comment permissions as follows: