get the grid view by default – Sight 1.0.1 Wpshower Theme

I have seen the question of how to have the grid view by default on the beautiful Sight 1.0.1 Theme by Wpshower on the web a couple of times now. And I liked the grid view better than the list view as well. Unfortunately I couldn’t find an answer on the web…
So I figured it out myself. It took me a couple of hours and a lot of trial and error to get there.
I originally wrote the answer on stackoverflow:

You have to modify a line on each of the index.php, loop.php and archive.php.

index.php Line 5:

<a href="javascript: void(0);" id="mode"<?php if ($_COOKIE['mode'] == 'list') echo ' class="flip"'; ?>></a>

loop.php line 3:

<div id="loop" class="<?php if ($_COOKIE['mode'] == 'list') echo 'list'; else echo 'grid'; ?> clear">

archive.php line 22:

<a href="javascript: void(0);" id="mode"<?php if ($_COOKIE['mode'] == 'list') echo ' class="flip"'; ?>></a>

Then you’ll also have to modify the js/script.js.

script.js lines 45-63:

    /*** View mode ***/

        if ( $.cookie('mode') == 'grid' ) {
            grid_update();
        } else if ( $.cookie('mode') == 'list' ) {
            list_update();
        }

        $('#mode').toggle(
            function(){
                if ( $.cookie('mode') == 'list' ) {
                    $.cookie('mode','grid');
                    grid();
                } else {
                    $.cookie('mode','list');
                    list();
                }
            },
            function(){
                if ( $.cookie('mode') == 'grid') {
                    $.cookie('mode','list');
                    list();
                } else {
                    $.cookie('mode','grid');
                    grid();
                }
            }
        );

        function grid(){
            $('#mode').removeClass('flip');
            $('#loop')
                .fadeOut('fast', function(){
                    grid_update();
                    $(this).fadeIn('fast');
                })
            ;
        }

        function list(){
            $('#mode').addClass('flip');
            $('#loop')
                .fadeOut('fast', function(){
                    list_update();
                    $(this).fadeIn('fast');
                })
            ;
        }

        function grid_update(){
            $('#loop').addClass('grid').removeClass('list');
            $('#loop').find('.thumb img').attr({'width': '190', 'height': '190'});
            $('#loop').find('.post')
                .mouseenter(function(){
                    $(this)
                        .css('background-color','FFEA97')
                        .find('.thumb').hide()
                        .css('z-index','-1');
                })
                .mouseleave(function(){
                    $(this)
                        .css('background-color','#f5f5f5')
                        .find('.thumb').show()
                        .css('z-index','1');
                });
            $('#loop').find('.post').click(function(){
                location.href=$(this).find('h2 a').attr('href');
            });
            $.cookie('mode','grid');
        }

        function list_update(){
            $('#loop').addClass('list').removeClass('grid');
            $('#loop').find('.post').removeAttr('style').unbind('mouseenter').unbind('mouseleave');
            $('#loop').find('.thumb img').attr({'width': '290', 'height': '290'});
            $.cookie('mode', 'list');
        }

Finally you will have to rotate the images/mode.png by 180°

~That should do it. As you can see it worked for me.~