I set up a new blog over at www.davidbarrkirtley.com. I’d heard about this software called WordPress, and I wondered if I could use it to add a blog that matched the design of the rest of my site. I decided to give it a shot, and after a few (okay, fourteen) hours of tinkering, I think I’ve finally gotten it working. I’m actually amazed that I’ve made it this far. I had to edit the code for the default WordPress theme, and I did not understand 95% of this code. I spent several hours trying to figure it out, but then my big break came when I realized that I didn’t have to understand it. I could just delete chunks of it at random, and if something important disappeared I would restore that piece of code. In this way I hacked the code down to its bare minimum, then rebuilt the layout in a way I can understand around what was left. I’m terrified that I accidentally deleted something important, but it seems to be working, and I can always try tossing code back in if I have to. There’s not a whole lot of content there right now, but no one can say what is there doesn’t match the look of the rest of my site.
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