New Blog Theme

Posted by knorby on December 26, 2008 under blogs, wordpress | 4 Comments to Read

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.