In this entry I lament at the challenges of finding a theme that really works for my usage case when WordPress has evolved far beyond just blogging software..
Does Anyone Actually Make Good WordPress Themes Anymore?
Tag: wordpress
WordPress Is Starting To Annoy Me…
A modest rant about how my preferred CMS is starting to tick me off.
So What Happened With That Hackfest Last Night?
Last night I spent several hours working on a bit of a code project. The idea was to create a custom RSS feed of posts from Xadara which would import into my Bulletin Board System, Final Zone. It was a solid enough idea, but something I knew, with my relatively amateur coding skills, would be […]
Image Consolidation – An Annoying Inevitability Of Running A WordPress Website
I’ve spent some time the past few weeks changing out the locations of a great many images here on Xadara, moving them from sub-folders on the site into the main WordPress image gallery. This is, of course, something you would think I would have just done anyway – it’s how most people run WordPress based […]
The Pen Is Mightier Than The Frontier? (Or, Another WordPress Theme Change)
As you might have noticed, things look very, very different around here. That’s because I found a new theme I liked — this one going by the name of “Pen” and amazingly, for all its raw power, complex code, and beauty it’s free (with some premium options, of course.) To say the previous theme, Frontier, […]
Sorry For The Technical Difficulties: Blame WordPress And Jetpack — Again
I honestly don’t even know this this post will actually get published, let alone shared, as currently I’m unable to get the “new post” page on Xadara to load. Well, that is, unless I disable the Jetpack plugin — a very helpful tool (practically mandatory for any serious WordPress blogger) which helps with statistics collection, […]
What’s Coming For 2020 On Xadara
Here we go, the first post of 2020 and of course it’s the obligatory “What’s Coming” post. You can’t say I’m not starting off optimistically, right? Right, let’s begin. First thing I’d say is it stands right now I’m hoping to keep up with my post schedule. It really has made things better on a […]
Sorry Old Computers – No Xadara For You
I hope this is the last I have to write about HTTPS and this site. I’m going to keep this one short and to the point, but I feel I’m going to have to commit to HTTPS only going forward with this site. This isn’t what I want to do, but in the week or […]
Welcome To The New Frontier (WordPress Theme)
Last night I committed to what I had posted in my previous article (Why I’m Ditching The Graphene WordPress Theme) and said adios to the overall much beloved and very well used Graphene theme which I had run on my site for many years now, instead switching to what has been an alternative for some […]
Why I’m Ditching The Graphene WordPress Theme
One of the reasons I love using WordPress to manage my site is the massive number of customization options out there for the software – between plugins providing specific extension capabilities to the site experience and themes allowing me to quickly and easily find a look and feel that works for me as a base […]
WordPress Problems: The Blogo App And Jetpack
As I’ve been slowly documenting, I’ve had quite a few Macintosh computers enter my digital life recently, and naturally I want to incorporate these machines into my workflow. Sure, I’m a blogger primarily, and you can do that on damn near any machine that can manage to run the WordPress back end, but I feel […]
Let The Cleanup Begin – An Update
As I mentioned in a pair of previous articles, I’m beginning a slight cleanup of Xadara. By slight, I mean probably 50 articles being deleted, and a shift to the general structure of the site. Of course, this is all for the better. Regarding articles, I want to clear up some of the more negative […]
R.I.P. Xadara Hit Counter – April 2016 To July 29th, 2018
I’ve been on the internet for a long time. Well, not that long, but long enough to remember when people had web pages and not whole sites. Not often, anyway, did an individual have their own complex site. I remember when message boards were something special, IM chats were actually fun, and most importantly (for […]
Google Chrome, SSL, WordPress, and Hostgator – Or, How To Waste An Evening Accomplishing Nothing
I consider myself a moderately tech savvy person. I’m not some kind of expert, but I manage to keep this website up and running. I understand in general what’s going on, the logic of a PHP database and other things, at least far enough to keep things functioning here. So, when I got the news […]
15 Hours Of Site Downtime – What The Hell Happened?
I woke up this morning hoping to get an article out before my day gets busy, since I had the time and nothing else planned. I figured I would get something simple up to fill the gaps between those multi-article days. I loaded up the website only to discover nothing. Well, nothing but a 500 […]