Teh Ugly

I apologize for the real-time fiddling, but I just didn’t feel like creating a whole new back end directory to play in. Anyway, I’m surely not finished yet. There are some things I really like about a few of the themes I’ve been playing with, but every damned one of them has a deal breaker of one sort or another. For example, this one. I’m not super keen on the blogroll being uncategorized, or the fact that all the sidebar junk is at the bottom, but I have to say, I do really like the rest of it. Only, it does not go with my image gallery. And y’all know how I feel about sans serif fonts. Yes, I could alter that, but unless I’m totally in love with the theme otherwise, I’m not going to bother.

I thought I’d found a WordPress theme I liked that had–miracle of miracles!–been ported to Coppermine. Obviously, that would have been too easy. There was some sort of error in the Coppermine files that was beyond my ability to figure out. Crap.

Another theme I really liked was missing a blog roll. I added one, and it worked but the formatting was wonky. Same with a calendar (which I’ve decided is indispensable, as it prompts me to be less lazy). Another had something seriously wrong with the archives, and I wasn’t able to fix the problem.

I’m not going to find something I like straight out of the box, obviously, but I’d like it to at least not have structural problems with the code. I can slap a coat of paint on it, but I cannot rebuild the foundation, if that makes sense.

So, I’m still hunting, and the periodic moments of ugly or even flat-out not working are likely to continue. So, if you get a blank screen or a bunch of code, you know that I broke something. I’ll fix it or switch it back to another ugly-but-functional theme ASAP.