I’ve decided to become a tester for the nightly builds of the next version of Wordpress, though I’m using it only on my local host. Considering what stage it’s in, I could easily see it chewing up this site and spitting it out in bloody chunks.

For those of you not into the whole back-end software part of things, let me lay it down for you at a basic level.

This site, along with about 400,000+ others, uses wordpress. It’s a highly flexible blogging software that is free and easy to use. Well, kinda easy. But that’s mainly what this post is about.

The reason I bring up testing the next version of Wordpress is because I see changes in it that I think will make a huge wave in the world of blogging. Not all by themselves, no, but in conjunction with some other things coming down the pipe.

Okay, not really. But I feel pretty darn good about myself. I finally figured out how to change headers by page. Want to see what I mean? Click on a few of the pages in the admin bar above. I may be a coding idiot, but I’m getting better.

Well, I’ve just about had it. I’ve been messing around for the whole night, trying to alter the template I’m using, more or less just trying to shift one column over to the left of the content. Luckily, I’ve been doing this on my local server, so you’ve not been deluged with the hellish mess I made of things during a lot of trial and error. Once I got the actual content to shift on the main page, I realized I needed to shift it on the comment page, the search result page and the archive page. What a pain.. Not to mention I had to change the background images to match the new positioning of everything!
Well, I’m almost done, and I’m finally starting to feel confident that it looks good. And it looks good in Internet Explorer (so fucking hard to do - damn css)! And yes, the guy who created this 3-column theme is working on a newer version that does all of this, but I wanted to try my hand at something like this and let’s face it, I’m an impatient fuck. Once I get all of my plugins ported over (so many of the ones I use require coding changes in the php files) and finish a few things, expect the new look. Of course, it’ll all become moot once K2 gets released and ported to a three-column style….

It’s finally arrived. The wordpress theme to replace Kubrick. I’ve been waiting a long time for this here theme.

By the way, this post will be of interest to very few of my regular readers. Like you. And you. And especially you.