New site design

I’ve tried to drag this site kicking and screaming into, well, whatever we’re calling this current decade.    The goal is a clean, minimalist interface, easy to find articles, and a good user experience on any device.

I’ve also just learned far more about the innards of WordPress than I ever wanted to.  Apparently, if you create a child theme, then you override existing PHP pages by creating new pages with the same name in your child theme folder.  Unless, of course the php page is functions.php.  In that case, both copies get included, causing all sorts of fun and conflicts.

In the end I gave up and edited the parent theme as well, so if I ever update the parent theme I’ll have to make a couple of changes.

Thank goodness for the Chrome WebInspector.  I can’t imagine how we used to do web development before we had tools like that.