Website changes, website changed. I’ve spent the last two days moving my WordPress website away from using a theme I bought three years ago.

My reasoning for doing so was that this theme cripples what I can do with my website. This needs an explanation and context.

When I use a theme, this theme is made by a web designer who earns money that way. So whenever a theme has been made, it carries its own trends with it: trends date websites the same way Carbon isotopes date fossils.

My theme relied on a couple of plugins.

It relied on external resources, loading external files. So when you went to my website, it didn’t load as quickly as it should’ve despite being mostly empty.

My theme made using my website complicated, even for me.

So I went with the current WordPress default theme, adjusted a few things my website does, updated its content and I am more content with the way it works now. I have added the same easy way to be able to navigate from post to post you’ve already seen on my Social Media archival site: default is below the posts but that is dumb, so I put it on top, like here

Below a few screenshots of what is currently going on my actual website.

I am not sure about the typography but so far it’s actually legible.

All in all, it feels more like my own website now.

I wanted to write “shame about the money” for the theme, but I honestly don’t feel that way. Having paid for it made me realize that I never liked to use it.

Which makes sense, if you think about what a theme actually is.

Source: My after‑hours blog on Tumblr Code & Canvas