Wordpress Adventures
Before time began…
Back in the day when Wordpress was a baby, Joomla had just forked from Mambo and Drupal was a geek’s wet dream (but a normal person’s worst nightmare). I chose Joomla for my blog.
2.5 years later my online research shows me that Wordpress is getting a lot of credit for it’s simplicity and usability. I believe these factors are always important when building online presences and decided to make the switch.
Converting was quite easy although as expected there were a few issues.
The export script here was designed for WP 2.7 and my WP was 2.8.
http://azeemkhan.info/2008/joomla2wordpress-import-wizard-v3/
Basically I just reinstalled 2.7 – did the export and then upgraded to 2.8 – worked fine.
WordPress Themes
One of the great things about WordPress is the sheer number of themes available. It is wonderful to see that no longer do you even have to dabble with ftp to install and configure most themes. I spent a lot of time searching for the right theme: I’m a fussy old soul. After a few days searching – the best of the bunch in my opinion was
Punchcut .951 by Themes by Jestro
Beautiful SIFR fonts and a good clean interface.
Only thing left to do is to style it to my fussy needs. Now I read about child themes, they sound like a very smart way to tweak a template like this so now it’s time to get my hands dirty.
A swift Google lead me to this helpful tutorial:
My key things to remember about child themes
Well the tutorial did a good job, but there were some problems.
Basically, the theme code always looks in the parent theme code for the image folder for the rotatable image.
I could just copy the folder into my theme folder and it would work.
Or I could just forget about using a child theme, add the small amount of css to tweak things in the style.css and go back to the original.
I chose the latter, for now…
Theme Update: Not so happy with my theme, I’m seeing quite a few issues with positioning of the SIFR text. Things like Post names being too long and the tag widget seem to be making flash words appear all over the place.
