Well, it’s time, I think. One does not simply make a web site, one has to continually update it. And with WordPress releasing 7.0, it’s time that I get on board with the features that I have been ignoring since 3.5 or so.
Time to redesign the site, and get it working with block-based themes, patterns, and all that sort of thing.
Step 1: finally add a custom logo. This one is a work-in-progress based off of my original text logo from 2000, along with a recent graphic design. Fortunately, this is managed independently of the overall WordPress theme.
Step 2: Unpublish the broken pages with nothing on them. Some of those are supposed to auto-generate, and they don’t. Others are just broken.
I’ve been using the WordPress Twenty-Twenty theme for a while, and it looks like what I really need is to upgrade to Twenty-TwentyFive, which not only includes blocks, but Patterns and Templates/Template Parts. This should make things more robust when switching between newer templates.
There are a bunch of elements that went away when I got rid of my older theme based off of Constructor, and I want them back, as long as they don’t break mobile. Twenty-Twenty is not fully mobile responsive, I don’t think.
Anyway, I’ll let you know how it goes. I’ll likely be doing this bit by bit. The design part is just one aspect, the other is revisiting what the site content should be.