{"id":4137,"date":"2012-02-11T10:51:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T15:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=4137"},"modified":"2012-02-11T10:51:43","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T15:51:43","slug":"ive-settled-on-admired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=4137","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve settled on &#8220;Admired&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve settled on Brad Thomas&#8217;s &#8220;Admired&#8221; with the light white skin as the new theme for this blog. It&#8217;s a relatively new theme and is being actively maintained with a support forum. which relieves my main worry about my old Live Steam theme &#8211; it&#8217;s not going to fall out of sync with the WordPress engine any time soon.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I put a significant amount of effort into finding a theme that could carry forward the clean, minimalist look of Live Steam. It wasn&#8217;t easy; most WP theme designers are in love with styles I find fancy, fussy, and overproduced. Even the default skin on this one is a bit too heavy for my taste, but the light white skin and a bit of font tuning has produced a look I find satisfactory.<\/p>\n<p>Not perfect, though.  The designer made a common mistake &#8211; too much use of px dimensions in the CSS. The result is poor presentation on displays that are either extra large or have a higher than 72dpi pixel density, like my Samsung SyncMaster 1100DF.  Also the design is a bit too whitespacey, though not nearly as bad as the WordPress default TwentyEleven theme I had previously been experimenting with.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be doing some bug-fixing and tuning to fix these problem (and will push the changes upstream to the designer, if he&#8217;ll take them). So you may notice the look of the blog shifting and tightening up in subtle ways.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you interested, I&#8217;ve put my variant of the theme on gitorious at <\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\ngit:\/\/gitorious.org\/wordpress-themes-collection\/admired.git<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>If you tried to clone one of my previous theme repos and got a permissions failure, it&#8217;s because I slipped up and gave out the form of the repo URL that only a committer can use.  The above should work for anyone, not that there are any changes there yet.  There will be shortly, I&#8217;m going to start on the px dimension cleanup today.<\/p>\n<p>(Yes, I do install new theme versions in my blog&#8217;s copy of the theme with git pull. Run remotely via ssh &#8211; look, ma, no hands!)  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve settled on Brad Thomas&#8217;s &#8220;Admired&#8221; with the light white skin as the new theme for this blog. It&#8217;s a relatively new theme and is being actively maintained with a support forum. which relieves my main worry about my old Live Steam theme &#8211; it&#8217;s not going to fall out of sync with the WordPress&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=4137\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I&#8217;ve settled on &#8220;Admired&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrivia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4138,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137\/revisions\/4138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}