New Blog Theme
Posted by knorby on December 26, 2008 under blogs, wordpress | 
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I decided to use a new theme. I am not very happy with the new one, but it fixes a few bugs that were in the last one, and creates a whole bunch of new ones. The sidebar RSS feeds aren’t displaying for one. There are some links placed at the bottom of the page. The color scheme is different, which I don’t mind terribly; I generally prefer black(ish) backgrounds, but a lot of partial html content sets the font color to black, which has been a problem a couple of times. I will look into the RSS feed problem at some point and fix up the easy stuff, but I don’t like spending a lot of time on themes; CSS is annoying, but php software themes are a crime against nature (not tied to the medium, just the coders who make them). I really wanted to add in gravatars (should set up an account if you haven’t already) to the comments, which was added in wordpress 2.6 or something, and there wasn’t an update to the the theme I was using. It is a simple fix to the comment template, but I was thinking of switching because of other problems anyway, and, as I said, I hate working on the wordpress themes. So, the appearance might change a bit some in the future, but don’t count on it.
Paul Mantz said,
For the most part, it’s not that hard to crack open a wordpress theme and much with the color scheme. Mine’s based on iNewspaper, but I switched it so it was predominantly back, which tends to be more readable, in my opinion. There a a few glitches, I’ll admit, but that has more to do with me getting bored than any complications.
knorby said,
It is easy enough to edit any of the templates (though I still find it annoying), but I only have ftp access to my hosting. I don’t really care enough to argue for shell access, as I don’t use the site for anything beside my blog. I am just happy anytime I don’t have to touch php; it keeps my thoughts pure.
mistakeprone said,
I believe that I have the same hosting service as you, and I can edit files on the site using cpanel. It’s kind of klunky, but for small tweaks it’s much less klunky than using ftp.
knorby said,
True, but that is just as annoying to me..
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