{"id":77885,"date":"2023-09-01T18:01:14","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T17:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/?p=77885"},"modified":"2023-09-01T18:04:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T17:04:17","slug":"site-refresh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/site-refresh\/","title":{"rendered":"Site Refresh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has been an awfully long time since I gave this site a thorough refresh, and now it has one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This site has been around in one form or another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2002\/06\/first_entry\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2002\/06\/first_entry\/\">since 2002<\/a>, beginning on  the Movable Type platform. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/migrating-from-movable-type-to-wordpress\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/migrating-from-movable-type-to-wordpress\/\">Sometime around 2013<\/a>, I finally migrated it over to WordPress, always wanting to maintain my full history as I went.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As is the way of things with WordPress, you find yourself adding things via plugins, and before you know it, you have dozens that you can&#8217;t remember quite what they did. So for this refresh I&#8217;ve tried to get rid of most things and start over design-wise. And I&#8217;ve basically removed all the Twitter\/X bits and pieces. I&#8217;ve not deleted my account yet, but I really can&#8217;t be bothered with it any more. WordPress&#8217; &#8220;Social Links&#8221; function doesn&#8217;t yet have a nice Threads logo, so that&#8217;s ugly and unclear, but I&#8217;ll fix it when it does. And while I&#8217;ve just got onto Bluesky, I&#8217;ve no idea if I&#8217;ll be sticking around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think the new design is a lot cleaner, and WordPress has come on an awful lot since I started with it. Sure, some of those fancier systems allow drag-and-drop, but I&#8217;ve gone with the Twenty Twenty-Three theme which has a bunch of styles within the theme. These give you great jumping off points to go from. I have notably <em>not<\/em> played around with child themes, tweaking CSS or anything. Fortunately, that seems less necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am by no means a WordPress expert, and I suspect that some things on here may be broken. The most annoying thing I&#8217;ve found is that &lt;iframe&gt; embeds don&#8217;t automatically follow site rules and align themselves hard-left. I&#8217;ve updated some more recent entries, but older RAJAR posts will look a bit ugly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The other thing I can&#8217;t quite work out  at the moment seems to be specific to the &#8220;Marigold&#8221; style within the Twenty Twenty-Three theme. Let me demonstrate by putting some text in &#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This is a level one Heading &#8211; it&#8217;s big!<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This is a level two Heading &#8211; still quite big<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This is level three &#8211; getting smaller<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This is level four &#8211; smaller still<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This is level five &#8211; even smaller<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This is level six &#8211; the smallest it will go<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can tweak the settings of all these as much as I like. Level 6 by default is UPPERCASE, but I could change that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the title of this blog entry at the top is supposed to a level one heading, and yet it&#8217;s around the same size as level four inside the post. Very strange. Other &#8220;styles&#8221; within the theme behave properly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One final note &#8211; I&#8217;ve added a new logo to the site, and it&#8217;s the site&#8217;s favicon too. I had hung onto my old favicon for ages, but something broke a few months back and I hadn&#8217;t gotten around to fixing until today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you do spot anything that&#8217;s broken, please do shout!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been an awfully long time since I gave this site a thorough refresh, and now it has one. This site has been around in one form or another since 2002, beginning on the Movable Type platform. 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