I’m going to update the look and feel of this blog, and it’s going to happen little by little before your eyes.
I like this blog’s current look and feel a lot. But I’m running on an old WordPress template that hasn’t been updated in several years. Its creator appears to have abandoned it. It also doesn’t play perfectly well with the new editor WordPress implemented a couple years ago.
I’ve needed to upgrade my template for a few years now, but I couldn’t find one that offered the look, feel, and features I want. But now WordPress offers a Theme Editor that gives a lot of control over look and feel. I just needed the right template to use as a base. (Unfortunately, my current template is so old it won’t work with the Theme Editor.)
WordPress’s new theme Twenty Twenty Three offers a lot of the look and feel I want, and is compatible with the Theme Editor. I’ve been trying out customizing this theme on my test blog with good success. I’m looking forward to making some improvements that I’ve always wanted with my current theme, including increasing default image width.
I’m going to implement Twenty Twenty Three here on Down the Road and customize it to my liking. But there’s no way for me to do it offline and turn it on when it’s all set. I’m going to have to do it on the live blog. Things will look wonky for a while, until I get everything set. I’ll start the work sometime this week.
A short editorial about this. While it’s disappointing that my old theme is no longer being maintained, this is just a hard reality with anything software related. Technology marches on, and sometimes you have to upgrade things to keep up.
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