It’s possible that someone browsing through my website in, oh, the past twelve hours came across a really<\/i> different look for the blog. Something… pink<\/i>.<\/p>\n
There’s a story there.<\/p>\n
Yesterday afternoon, while checking out the WordPress support forums, I found a post from someone asking how difficult it would be to port her theme for a different blogging platform to WordPress. She had provided a link, I took a look, and figured it would take about two hours.<\/p>\n
I e-mailed her, volunteered my services, and she wrote back.<\/p>\n
She also wanted to know what she’d owe me. “Nothing,” I said. “This is fun.”<\/p>\n
Sometimes I need an intellectual puzzle. How do you think I learned to write VBA macros for Microsoft Word and Excel? It was because making my job easier was an intellectual puzzle. Making a stylesheet for a different platform work with WordPress was the same sort of thing.<\/p>\n
And, to be honest, it was what I did for my own blog a few weeks ago. I had a rough day, I was annoyed with life, so I took a free stylesheet from StyleShout<\/a> and made it work with WordPress. Then, a day or two later, I decided I didn’t like that stylesheet, and took a different StyleShout stylesheet and redid my code to make that one work. Once you’ve done it, it’s not that difficult to do it again. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n Of course, I couldn’t send her the code without testing it. So that meant putting it up on a live blog. Which meant putting it up on my blog, to give it a rigorous workout. And which lead me to finding a few bugs in my code, which required retesting.<\/p>\n I’d finished the work by bedtime, but in that twilight moment of half-consciousness before waking I had some insights on how to do one or two things better. See, the two blogging systems weren’t entirely<\/i> comparable, so some things couldn’t be done. That meant tweaking two more files, and I had to retest those.<\/p>\n In the end, I was very happy with how it turned out. This blogger will be able to move over to WordPress, and her readers won’t ever know the difference. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n As for my own blog, I like the way it looks these days. Though, knowing me, I’ll get the itch, and a month from now, it will look completely different.<\/p>\n Maybe I’ll decorate it with pictures of the TARDIS decked out with sombreros or something. \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s possible that someone browsing through my website in, oh, the past twelve hours came across a really different look for the blog. Something… pink. There’s a story there. Yesterday afternoon, while checking out the WordPress support forums, I found a post from someone asking how difficult it would be to port her theme forContinue reading “On Bloggery”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4095],"tags":[351,4096],"class_list":["post-1872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress","tag-meta","tag-wordpress","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}