A New Theme Installed

I’ve changed my WordPress Theme over to “Hemmed” and am working to make it how I want it. I will eventually, I hope, have a “picture of the day” sort of post on the top, as first post, and then a couple of full posts, then a few of the next posts with excerpts.

I have to figure out how to code all that within the template for the main index though. I tried using info on the documentation site for Word Press, but it didn’t work with this Theme, when I tried it. Not that it won’t work, it’s just a bit complex and I need to go over it a few time more and search the internet for more help in getting a couple of posts then re-querying to get the next few posts to display via a different way. I’m only trying that thus far, not a “special category” for the top, yet.

I’ll be cleaning up my Categories then soon, I hope, that means, for me, going through my site as a client and viewing posts and editing them to delete Categories I don’t want anymore, but assign new ones that I want to use, so as not to miss anything (any posts) and then safely delete all unwanted Categories from my install, without having any posts reverted to plain old “general” because of it. So it’s important that I go through ALL of them. Which I want to anyhow. I don’t have TOO many posts to make it that difficult.

I still have a ton of posts from my other site though, which I STILL don’t know what I’m going to do with. Phew.

You can find my latest posts listed at the bottom of each page, with any “links” that I might have to other places online. Pages, Monthly Archives, and Categories are on the sidebar, with a few of my old sidebar things re-assigned to the new theme sidebar, and also recent comments listed on the bottom bar, with a newer plugin get_recent_comments, coding to use that plugin built into this theme, but you have to “get the plugin” to have it show up down there on the blog (if you want to use “hemmednoajax, which is what this is, get it via Presentation in your admin section, you need the newest version of WP, btw, and there you can find lots of themes to just click on and have it take effect for you blog. If you like hemmed, then you should find the authors blog address inside the theme editing and look there for info on the plugins suggested.)

This theme does come setup for using the_excerpt on the front page, which I don’t want for ALL the posts, as I related in the beginning of this post. I don’t like the look for my site. So I’m continuing to struggle with the weirdo wp loop conditionals to get it right.

And that is that for now!