{"id":27884,"date":"2025-01-16T11:39:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T16:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=27884"},"modified":"2025-01-16T17:20:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T22:20:45","slug":"admin-ongoing-look-and-feel-discombobulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/admin-ongoing-look-and-feel-discombobulation\/","title":{"rendered":"ADMIN: Ongoing Look-and-Feel Discombobulation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Regular visitors here may be even more confused than I am &#8212; and that&#8217;s saying something &#8212; about various mysterious layout changes in the last couple months. At the moment, just to list a couple things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The right-hand menu &#8212; including a Google-based search form and various other ways of accessing old comment (chronologically, by category, and so on), as well as links to my various other online presences (Instagram, Substack, etc.) &#8212; has drifted to the bottom of the page, where it looks ridiculous.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The header image &#8212; the Japanese woodcut of the guy chasing his hat in a windstorm &#8212; now also appears in the <em>footer<\/em>, for unknown reasons.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>As you probably know, <em data-afsc-id=\"2586\">RAMH<\/em>, like many other blogs which have been around for as long (or longer), runs on a blogging platform called WordPress. The standard WordPress look-and-feel has itself changed over time &#8212; on top of which, many blogs (like this one) are built on &#8220;themes&#8221; which control stuff like colors, fonts, the placement of elements on a page or within a post, and so on; there are free themes, and professional themes you can buy and then customize further, on your own. Once you&#8217;ve got those general things set up to your satisfaction, you can proceed to add various so-called plug-ins which add other capabilities: audio players, image slideshows, and so on&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of those elements &#8212; core WordPress, the selected theme, the look and behavior of plug-ins &#8212; are managed, i.e. controlled, by different entities: corporations, individual developers, groups of them. And they&#8217;ve all got to be kept in sync with one another or, well, weirdness creeps in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what the hell is going on with it all anymore, and I no longer have the patience to make it all &#8220;right&#8221; when the changes are obviously being done without notification. <em>Stuff Suddenly Just Doesn&#8217;t Work the Same Anymore.<\/em> So, alas: for a good while, at least, I&#8217;ll just fix things that don&#8217;t seem to work at all, period. I&#8217;ve got too much &#8220;stuff&#8221; here to pull the plug on <em>RAMH<\/em> for a good long while, and I&#8217;ll continue updating it from time to time (including the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/about-whiskey-river-fridays\/\"><em>whiskey river<\/em> Fridays<\/a>&#8221; series). 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