I switched this site to the latest theme from WordPress. As you can see, it’s a minimalist theme. I’ve been disappointed with many of the themes in the last few years. I like the minimalist approach, though this theme is a bit too minimalistic. Yet, I’m wondering about its capacity as a starting place for further customization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For years, I used the _S theme<\/a> as a starter theme for my developing my own theme. But that project seems abandoned and is no longer a good place to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have mixed feelings about WP overall. I’ve used it almost since 2005 but I’ve never liked the idea of storing documents in MySQL. But the overall simplicity of getting a site up and running and the simplicity of editing content is too much to ignore. The tooling to get started on static site generators is a bit of a pain. Of course, for many static site aficionados, they would say the same thing about the need for hosting and all that comes with a web server, PHP, and MySQL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n The 2023 theme is positioned as a starter theme. It’s great that WP has gone back to providing a starter theme. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Here are some relevant links discussing the 2023 WP theme:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The column width is too narrow. Taking a while to figure out how to adjust that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Just from the start of using this theme, I feel like there are things missing, things that I need to learn how to adjust, things for which I don’t see an obvious solution for at a glance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I like the theme. I like the possibilities. But part of my difficulty is my lack of familiarity with full site editing. I’m old school. I’m way old school. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Okay, I found the styles browser over in the right-hand side of the theme editor. That made a big difference. I really like that it offers a set of minimalistic default styles with each a nice variation. There are 11 style variations. Marigold is intriguing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Wow, okay, there are a lot more options here than it first appears. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I’m starting to use this theme as the default when I setup a new WP site. Eventually, I’ll get around to using this theme as a starter for my own custom theme development. But there are so many options that work out-of-the-box that you can adjust as you like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Actually, the first thing I do when setting up a new WP site is to obfuscate my admin username to a random string of characters. I also setup a security tool like WordFence<\/a>. There are too many hackers attempting to login to sites with the default admin user ID, the domain name, and your public display name. Put a stop to that by changing your WP admin name and setting up security. Plus, turn on 2FA. For a new site under active development but not yet ready for prime time, then I add a password protection plugin<\/a> until I’m ready to release the site. I also delete any unnecessary plugins that might be on the site. I also enable auto updates on plugins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I switched this site to the latest theme from WordPress. As you can see, it’s a minimalist theme. I’ve been disappointed with many of the themes in the last few years. I like the minimalist approach, though this theme is a bit too minimalistic. Yet, I’m wondering about its capacity as a starting place for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2940"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2974,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions\/2974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What we get with 2023<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Things I want to adjust<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
A checklist for setting up a new site with this theme<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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