wordpress theme programming

We have a custom theme we are working on that requires additional programming. The theme is a full CMS style theme, with multiple pages and a full control panel to setup the features. We currently require: Changes to the way the categories are displayed so that instead of displaying all the catgeories on the sidebar we will only display the subcategories, ie on the blog page we would display all the sub categories of 'blog' We are having problems rolling out the theme to multiple blogs because we have many widgets setup on each sidebar - we need a setup program to quickly setup the widgets on a new blog view the theme at [login to view URL]