{"id":138,"date":"2009-07-28T23:01:09","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T23:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astick.net\/blog\/?p=138"},"modified":"2014-02-02T22:40:38","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T22:40:38","slug":"new-name-new-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/new-name-new-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"New name, new theme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so creating a theme from scratch proved to be an awful lot harder than I expected it to be. Luckily I found <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/themes\/lime-radiance\">Lime Radiance<\/a>, which was almost exactly what I wanted except a bit too&#8230; well&#8230; <em>lime!<\/em> Anyway I changed the background and a few other things around, and I&#8217;m pretty happy with the result. What really helped was using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apachefriends.org\/en\/xampp.html\">xampp<\/a> to run apache and mySQL locally on my computer, so I could install WordPress and test out themes and modifications much faster. That was a trick I probably wouldn&#8217;t have found if I hadn&#8217;t looked to design my own initially, so it was definitely worthwhile.<\/p>\n<p>I might make a few minor changes yet, but this design is pretty much how I want it. :D<\/p>\n<p>And the new name is the obvious pun, which I think was my original idea for the name. Then when I couldn&#8217;t get the domains I originally wanted, I ended up buying astick.net, planning to do &#8220;blog on a stick&#8221;, &#8220;wiki on a stick&#8221; etc. I guess I always preferred this name though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so creating a theme from scratch proved to be an awful lot harder than I expected it to be. Luckily I found Lime Radiance, which was almost exactly what I wanted except a bit too&#8230; well&#8230; lime! Anyway I changed the background and a few other things around, and I&#8217;m pretty happy with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/new-name-new-theme\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New name, new theme<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}