{"id":114,"date":"2006-10-12T10:54:22","date_gmt":"2006-10-12T15:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/?p=114"},"modified":"2006-10-12T10:57:18","modified_gmt":"2006-10-12T15:57:18","slug":"k2-wordpress-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/posts\/2006\/10\/12\/k2-wordpress-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"K2 WordPress theme"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a new look on the site now. I’ve installed the K2<\/a> theme for WordPress. My motive for doing this was two-fold. First, I will be migrating much of my content (homebrewing, electronics, etc., pages) from the hand-crafted static HTML pages into WordPress, basically using WordPress to manage the whole site. I want the new pages to appear as static pages, not as blog posts. And I wanted this static content to appear under a set of tabs at the top of the site, much like it does in the hand-crafted HTML pages. K2 makes this possible (so do many other themes…).<\/p>\n

Second, I don’t want to give up Adsense when I do this. I needed a way to get the Adsense ad blocks to appear on the sidebar of the site. K2 has a feature I haven’t seen in any other WordPress theme: the ability to customize the sidebar with modular snap-in blocks. Including a generic HTML block, which provides an excellent place to paste the Adsense Javescript code.<\/p>\n

(I’m not saying none of the other thousand WordPress themes can do this… just that K2 is the only theme I’ve found, having only checked a few, that can.)<\/p>\n

I find the idea of K2 interesting… these modular, snap-in blocks remind me very strongly of PHP-Nuke (which I briefly experimented with, before deciding it couldn’t really do what I wanted.) But it’s interesting that blocks are at the very core of PHP-Nuke, but in the WordPress, they’ve only recently been added, at the very highest layer of the system (in a theme).<\/p>\n

Anyway, WordPress with K2 is now getting astonishinly close to the web-site management tool I really wanted.<\/p>\n

The only thing I don’t like about K2 in its default configuration is that it is a fixed-width theme. I don’t like fixed-width themes. When I maximize a browser window, I want to see more content.\u00c2\u00a0 Not the same amount of content with monstrous wide-ass borders around it. Apparently K2 used to support a variable-width option, but they got rid of it for some reason.<\/p>\n

I found a page that describes a way to edit the stylesheet to make it variable-width again. I’m using that now, but it’s still not perfect: It does a 65%\/25% split between content column and sidebar. That’s silly… I want the sidebar to be fixed width, and the content to be “all the rest”. I don’t have enough understanding yet of the CSS box model to make that happen. All my attempts have mangled the layout in some unpalatable way. But I’ll keep working on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a new look on the site now. I’ve installed the K2 theme for WordPress. My motive for doing this was two-fold. First, I will be migrating much of my content (homebrewing, electronics, etc., pages) from the hand-crafted static HTML pages into WordPress, basically using WordPress to manage the whole site. I want the new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}