If you’ve been here before, you probably noticed that the site looked a lot better than this in the past. I had my theme that I developed over ten years ago, but a recent WordPress update broke it. It won’t even come up at all if you try to use my old theme. I’m using this temporary theme to at least show my latest posts while I figure out what to do about it.
I’d love to just edit my theme and get it back on there if I can figure out just what is needed. I’m not having much luck. Even if I do, some update in the future may break it again. Not updating is a security risk. Right now, I honestly don’t have a lot of time to keep the theme up.
My needs are fairly simple but specific. WordPress is probably extreme overkill for what I need. Over the past 23 years, I’ve used some other solutions and even developed my own content management, but I am not going to be able to do that again anytime soon. Wordpress allowed me to just edit my content. I really just wanted a blog on the main page with links to other pages on my site and to my social media and an archive that allows people to get to my previous posts. Then again, I really wonder if there is any reason I need people to be able to easily access what an almost 50-year-old man wrote when he was in his 20s.
Many of the existing themes I saw didn’t work for me, but I think I will be searching to see if I can find one that will. I really just wanted to be able to write down what I want to share and post it. I cannot take the time, for example, to find an image to go with each post. The available themes tend to be designed for a more sophisticated commercial web site. However, I may find something that I like that I want to just use. It would save me on maintenance as long as it stayed in development.
However, this is all leading me to pray about what I want this site to look like. I don’t want to give it up. I really like hosting my own site and even doing as much of the design work as I am able. One thing about this endeavor of mine is that I didn’t have much of a direction to start off. Now, I want something that simply works and allows me to share the Catholic Faith, and maybe a few other things on occasion, with people. Hopefully, we’ll see some updates, but I may need to take my time on this. In the meantime, you can still read what I post here. It just might not be pretty.