This theme is called LactPlate. I like the clean look, but the text colours and header font are unfortunate. I’m still exploring the vast world of WordPress themes.
One thing that these themes are revealing is that I have far too many categories. I need to cut them down to a dozen or so. I’ve just found a neat plugin to do bulk category management, so when I get a chance….
In my previous blog (still available here) I hand-crafted a set of pages which I linked from the top of the sidebar. WordPress makes it easy to create such pages (even a hierarchy of such things), so I’m starting to migrate the content from the old files.
I still haven’t done anything with the blogroll and links. In the old blog, this material was hand-edited into the MT index template, with much use of [very] raw HTML. There’s no easy way to import this stuff: I’m going to have to do it by hand.
UPDATE: I think I’ve got the fonts the way I want them, including the mouse-overs, and I’ve started to make progress on the sidebar. I need to find a plugin to provide a better editor for new posts: right now it’s easier to author a comment (with live preview) than it is to enter the original blog item. The default handling for picture uploads is very crude….
UPDATE: I imported all of the entries from my old MT blog into the new one. However I’ve left the original pages around in read-only form to satisfy any links back from search engines and other blogs. I’ve also (just now) disabled all of the MovableType CGI’s, so any attempt to comment on the old content, or use the search function, will simply 404
Anyone who gets to my blog through RSS (directly or via an aggregator) shouldn’t notice any problems; I’ve added an .htaccess rule to rewrite the requests. In the long term it’ll be more efficient if you switch to the correct URI.
Entries (RSS)
WordPress is looking pretty slick. I like the fact that the comments get an RSS feed, and the ‘live’ preview that’s generated as I type is a great use of javascript.
I wonder if MT’s got plugins for these features too…
i like this theme better than your previous one. you are right the text color is a bit hard on the eyes. header font does not look bad on my browser; seems to be one of the standard sans-serif ones, perhaps helvetica. does it look too bulky to you?
oooh very cool. the live preview thing is spiff.
(gratuitous bold tag thrown in there)
you can always edit the theme’s style sheet and change the colours/font?
I’ve already changed the header font from Serif to Sans, and the header colour. I can’t seen to find where the magenta is set, though – I always assumed magenta was something like #ff33ff, but nothing like that appears in the CSS.