{"id":5096,"date":"2009-09-20T16:18:25","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T20:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=5096"},"modified":"2009-09-20T17:07:33","modified_gmt":"2009-09-20T21:07:33","slug":"theme-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=5096","title":{"rendered":"Theme Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few notes on some housekeeping changes here. Sorry to bore you with non-entertainment content, but I&#8217;d rather say this once in a post than a half dozen times in email:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve updated the site theme.  Quotation boxes should now have more than 40 characters across, and the home link on the top should now actually link to home. <\/p>\n<p>On the downside, I had to remove the neutral and evil themes for now.  Sorry about that.  About two years ago we had an interesting thread <a href=\"?p=1360\">talking about why some people prefer black backgrounds and some people prefer white<\/a>.  At the time I thought it was due to environment (lighting) or hardware (size and brightness of your screen) but after reading what people said I&#8217;m now confident that different people just work differently. <\/p>\n<p>It came down to a choice between Super Cache (which I need in place if I don&#8217;t want the site to go down when I get links from a really big site) and the theme switcher.  They were not compatible and the theme switcher wouldn&#8217;t work properly for people who never left comments.  (That is, a vast majority of visitors.) It IS possible to make the two work together, but not without writing the plugin myself.  A caching plugin is a large and complex task, and I&#8217;m not up for that level of project at the moment. This isn&#8217;t a problem that can be sorted out with just a couple of hours of hacking, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>As an olive branch to the dark background fans, I&#8217;ve altered the default theme so that it&#8217;s a couple of shades away from pure white.  Hopefully this will make it less painful for you to read.  This change in experimental, and might change again based on feedback.  I&#8217;d like for the site to be just right for everyone, but we can&#8217;t have that.  So the goal now is for something we can all live with.<\/p>\n<p>Feedback on the theme and site behavior welcome.  <\/p>\n<p>EDIT: I said in the comments below:<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\">Additional: I just realized that to integrate theme-switching with super-caching I&#39;d also have to re-write my dice roller, since it needs different images for white and black, and those would need to be controlled by the CSS.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few notes on some housekeeping changes here. Sorry to bore you with non-entertainment content, but I&#8217;d rather say this once in a post than a half dozen times in email: I&#8217;ve updated the site theme. Quotation boxes should now have more than 40 characters across, and the home link on the top should now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}