A New Look for Larryc.com… Site has been updated.

llsee — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:05:00 +0000

You may have noticed that the site looks a little different. I changed the Wordpress theme that I have been using for the past 2 years. My old theme was called Tiga, and I liked it because the author had done a good job of annotating the code. That made it easier to change the look and add content. Unfortunately, the theme was no longer being maintained. When Wordpress had a major update with release 2.3, the theme broke. Fortunately, some users who are more proficient with PHP than I, created a patch which they shared with all users. For the past months I have been looking for a new theme that was more up-to-date but still allowed flexibility for the look of my site. A Wordpress plugin called ‘Theme test drive’ helped me greatly. With this plugin, I was able to have a 2nd theme that I could see when I logged in, but didn’t change the look of the site when you dropped by to visit.

About 2 months ago, I stumbled across the Atahualpa theme. Not only is this them being actively developed and maintained, it also has an appearance dashboard that allows me to change virtually all of the theme’s colors, fonts, layout etc. The other change I needed to make was to my sidebar content. You know, those little entries on the right side. Many of mine were hard coded, that is, I added code to the stylesheet for the sidebar. I wanted to take advantage of Wordpress’ widget capabilities, so I have been adding widgets, and deleting the hard code. Well, yesterday, I installed the new theme for all, and updated to the latest version of WP, release 2.8. Hope you like the new look, although there isn’t much difference from the old.

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A New Look for Larryc.com… Site has been updated.