Re: Detecting whether a post is the first in a topic
Lookfab, here’s a slight tweak to the default kakumei topic.php theme file that should do what you want:
<ol id="thread" start="<?php echo $list_start; ?>">
<?php $i = 0; ?>
<?php foreach ($posts as $bb_post) : $del_class = post_del_class(); ?>
<li id="post-<?php post_id(); ?>"<?php if ($i == 0) { echo 'class="firstpost"'; } elseif !($i % 2) { echo ('class="alt"'); }?>>
<?php bb_post_template(); ?>
</li>
<?php $i++; ?>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ol>
You can then style the class “firstpost” using CSS to make it stand out however you want…
I didn’t test this, but I think it should work either by itself or with a tweak or two.