In case it’s not obvious, I’ve switched blog themes. This time, it’s a barely-tweaked copy of Sandbox.
then followed up with this:
I can roll my own widgets, and not need to rejigger the main theme and associated templates every time I drop in an update.
I’m in the process of doing the exact same thing. I migrated about 95% of my own theme to Sandbox — still got a few things i’m not satisfied with — and using widgets to replace the custom areas of my theme.
Sandbox is a great idea implemented well. For those with the Firefox microformats extension, the theme sports hCard and hAtom support out of the box.
The only change to the main theme files was replacing the provided 404 page with my own that does a search for the provided PATH_INFO string.
And another thing. I’ve changed aggregators. Yes, again. I went back and gave Google Reader a third shot. This time they got close enough for me to dump reBlog. Development on reBlog seems to be at a standstill. I’m being assimilated by the collective: GMail, Google Calendar, and Google Reader now have a home in my bookmarks. Though i’m still working hard to avoid vendor lock-in too. As with other online tools, i back-up my feed subscriptions from Google Reader in OPML and Atom formats daily. Same goes for the other services. I can move at a moments notice.
With all the changes, the missing feature i haven’t put back yet is the blogroll. That’ll come back as time allows…
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