We fear change. I wanted a more presentable look so I grabbed the Color Paper theme (colour!) from Smashing Magazine, on the scene in a dream. I was just lucky to come across it as I’ve been reading a lot of design blogs lately for some unknown reason. Maybe to mourn how I can’t afford an Adobe suite used to perfect mad skills required for such artwork? The fixed height of the featured post is a bit annoying (more under the cut, ha.)
I decided to pretty up a few other things, including installations of WordPress plugins Flickr Thumbnail Photostream (I had to search through Flickr’s HTML to find my user ID used for configuration; classy) and WP-Syntax (for source code highlighting). There’s also an upgraded version of Lightbox 2.
I switched from Spam Karma 2, which now isn’t updated and regularly acts as a false positive jerk, to Akismet. To configure this, I had to sign up for a wordpress.com account which’ll send your API key in the welcome email. I discovered I already had an account for years when attempting to sign-up, so I had to find my key through an alternate method hidden in the domain’s depths. Flickr and WordPress just love holding these pearls closely.
Now isn’t the pirate language version of Facebook the coolest thing going on right about now? Go to the page’s footer and select “English (Pirate)” from the dropdown. Hells yeah.
