So yeah. New years, new blogging engine. I know I’ve been bouncing around but I promise ya – I’m feeling real good about this one.

If you want a quick overview on the engine/stuff this time: I’m just moving back to WordPress. Yes, I know it’s the dinosaur nobody likes and everyone assumes you need like 15 million plugins to get anything done but… what if I didn’t? What if I just carefully selected what I need. I’m not a picky person; I think wordpress’ out of the box themes can work fine with a little tweaking so… why reinvent the wheel?

I don’t know if this will work out. It might not. But I can at least give it a shot.

Right now, the blog is running a modified variant of twenty fourteen. The main reason for this is that I just think Twenty Fourteen is the best theme WordPress has released over the years. I’m also only using the classic editor to compose things, since this is a blog, not a website builder. I know I can transmogrify WordPress in this abomination of a builder if I wanted to, but… well, again I don’t want to do that. I know enough PHP to code a few bits and bobs myself and whilst the WordPress API is positively awful, it at least works and backwards compatibility is something that WordPress appears to take very seriously.

I don’t plan to keep a public log for everything I modify about this theme (nor is open-sourcing my modifications a current goal), but the main things you’re probably seeing are the different core color (going for a soft blue instead of a hard green since it’s nicer on the eyes) as well as the author box. Pretty proud of that one, if I do say so myself.

Hopefully next time I can write about something interesting instead of constant meta posts about how I’m switching blog engines. Jekyll is looking mighty fine right about now…