“code is poetry”

New blog project is at: 80 pages, 1 subject

Challenges:

Needed to move away from typical blog display
Hunted around in themes to find something that matched the nature of the project
Found SG/Dark, a theme that seemed to highlight the individual fragments in a pleasing way, less quotidian than the typical blog chronological vertical scrolling
Uh-oh, the fragments have to display in reverse chronological order – start at the beginning, not the end!
Found a plugin Default Sort Ascend that accomplishes this
Removed the “previous posts” link because it will not go backwards (forwards) properly
Wanted a tag cloud, found a template tag wp_tag_cloud
Tried tag cloud in the footer, center column; looks squashed
Modified the footer to display the categories in two sets and the last 15 posts for archiving purposes
Added page for the tag cloud; created tag page template
Added page for the archives; created archive page template
Modified the styles of everything accordingly

Now I think I will have to redate everything to 2006; there are large gaps in the journal and I would rather have the posts display more regularly in the current time

Very geeky.

Meanwhile, this blog is boring. Needs some color. Hmmm.