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Yet Another Theme Update

Started by hadar · 1 year ago

YATU (Yet Another Theme Update)…

In two previous posts, I mentioned that with my new XAMPP setup, I could and would be tinkering around with WordPress themes a bit more. At the same time, I switched to the Aspire theme, which I liked (functionally), but wa ... Continue reading »

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  • thingles

    1 year ago

    I like the new theme updates -- the white background for the main text is much easier to read.

    Personally -- I'd kill the tag cloud and use something like Popularity Contest to put lists of posts in that space.
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  • hadar

    1 year ago

    Thanks. As for the tag cloud, while I like it (conceptually), in practice, I suspect that you are correct. The main tags at the top will dominate for quite a while, so I'm not sure they really help people "discover" new things. At a minimum, I should definitely chop it from the "top 100" to the top 20-30 (and I likely will do that, at a minimum...

    As for Popularity Contest, I can easily do that, as I have the Popularity plugin. The part that makes me hesitate is that I also wonder whether the most popular posts are necessarily the ones that require any more "advertisement" for them.

    Thanks Jamie!
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