{"id":25639,"date":"2022-08-18T10:58:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T14:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=25639"},"modified":"2022-08-18T10:58:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T14:58:42","slug":"slowly-painfully-returning-to-normalcy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/slowly-painfully-returning-to-normalcy\/","title":{"rendered":"Slowly, Painfully Returning to &#8220;Normalcy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Can&#8217;t say I&#8217;ve enjoyed messing with all this site look-and-feel stuff which had been stable for so long. But a bunch of stuff has been fixed, anyhow:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Main menu no longer bulleted; items in menu returned to horizontal layout &#8212; ditto for the list of &#8220;entry pages&#8221; (Previous, Next, etc.) which appears below whatever post(s) show on the current page<\/li><li>Main font of entries returned to earlier serifed font (blockquotes still sans-serif, as before)<\/li><li>Removed &#8220;Recently on Instagram&#8221; widget until I figure out why the so-called sidebar elements (Subscribe, Hats Recently Chased, etc.) have been suddenly turned into, uh, bottom-bar elements<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The main thing, and I think it&#8217;s big enough to sweat, is that the layout remains hinky &#8212; displaying entries in full page width, which forces all that sidebar stuff to be buried at the bottom of the page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About that, one possibility has suddenly occurred to me&#8230; How to explain&#8230;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">See, the basic look of the page is based on a WordPress &#8220;theme&#8221; I bought the last time I did a site redesign, in, um&#8230; well, it was years ago anyhow. Since then, WordPress itself has undergone a number of updates &#8212; and so did the basic theme, although I didn&#8217;t know it (or didn&#8217;t think it would matter). WordPress updates are automatically applied; <em>theme<\/em> updates are not. When I finally got around to updating the theme late last week, <em>Boing!<\/em>: everything sprung out of whack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So anyhow, what occurs to me now is this: I have not been using a &#8220;real&#8221; computer since we left on our Roadtrip 2021-22 almost a year-and-a-half ago; instead, I&#8217;ve been using a laptop Chromebook, since it&#8217;s very small, light, and easily transported. 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