Well it’s taken me two years, but I’ve finally got round to moving Inflatable Ink from its temporary home on Blogger to its own WordPress theme. I have nothing against Blogger but as a coder I like to be able to poke about under the hood. Also, after six months or so, Blogger took against my browser and quietly discarded any comments I posted. I worked around that, but after multiple browser upgrades failed to fix the problem I began to take it personally.
This theme, Inflatable, is built on top of a bare bones template called Toolbox by Automattic. Bare bones means that the theme does all the basics, but has very minimal formatting. I stripped out what formatting there was, and wrote and designed a bunch of features from scratch. Let me know if and when you find the inevitable gremlins — they’ll be my fault. Some are known to me already. Like the half-formatted 404 and search pages, for example. It’s definitely a work in progress. Still, I could have held off for months getting things just right, and frankly I just don’t have time for that.
It has been pointed out to me that I could easily have just chosen one of the hundreds of excellent themes available for customization, and freed up time for work, writing, and study. In retrospect, that would probably have been sensible. On the other hand, I’d like to integrate lots of cool stuff into this theme over time, and that will be easier with code I already know inside out.
Admittedly, when I’m supposed to be writing, I tend to goof off and code. And when I’m scheduled to code, I find myself stealing time to write. This blog migration has been an excellent tool in my campaign of procrastination. It’s amazing I fit beer in at all. Which is my cue to open a bottle, I think.
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