I maintain a local magazine’s website, which is actually set up as a WordPress site. I didn’t create it, but have taken over the maintenance. Now the site looks really good, but with a conglomeration of php code, plugins, images, absolute links, and content, it is a spider web of code that makes up this site.
I’ve been adding a user comments section that I would like to have a consistent look with the rest of the site. Goes without saying, doesn’t it? Only problem is the number of styles in the stylesheet goes on forever and multiple pages are combined to make up many what appears to be a single page to the reader. Last night as I worked on this site and monkeyed around forever, I realized that I am spending a lot of time on it and it would make sense to just pull the major styles into a new style sheet and start over.
Today, I will restart building that section, starting over, with my own stylesheet. Sometimes starting over is the most expedient approach. Lesson learned.
Tags: blog, starting over, Wordpress