Note to self: From now on do not use the automatic update feature of WordPress.
Doing this broke my theme and thus my site, as it decided to overwrite it with the default one. My custom theme was a heavily modified version of the default and I never bothered making a new directory for it so I guess it was entirely my fault. All the background code and design changes I had made meant that the “updated” theme files broke the layout entirely and resulted in some sort of strange love-child between this site and the default WordPress theme. Luckily the nice people at my webhost company had an automatic backup from two days ago so they found my theme and gave it back to me. Thank you Register1! *kisses*
To be honest I’ve been thinking about changing my theme for a while now anyway, there are a few design problems with it. I’ve tried tweaking it a lot to make it so the text is more readable on a blueish background but I can never get a high contrast without changing the font colour to white, which I am not going to do. I’m thinking of incorporating more design elements from my “Vote Campaign” design that I made a while back (it’s on my projects page) seeing as he never actually used it in the end. Specifically I want to change the colour scheme so the main text is on a white background, though more changes may be included. Only problem is that I should probably remove the “Vote Campaign” design from my portfolio if I make it too similar to this site!
Anyway, we’ll see what happens. I’ll likely just work in the background on the next design until I’m happy enough with it to take the plunge and change over. This one works for now and I don’t exactly want to break anything.
Anything more that is.
-Thomas
