Red, white, and cached

When I first launched Modern American Web Development my main purpose was experimentation. I also invited numerous colleagues to join me. I set them up with accounts and privileges and encouraged them to write and experiment as well.

In the spirit of this, I made SEHD a WPMU install and modified the P2 theme with a print from Overland Monthly, the iconic frontier magazine.

6 months later, these pioneers have written a sum total of 0 posts. WPMU has merged with WordPress Proper. P2 makes no sense. Maynard Dixon, however, still looks awesome.

P2 was a theme meant for collaboration and quick messaging. The comments are all up front, and you post from the home page. It’s supposed to work like Twitter. But really, why not use Twitter, then?

Maybe P2 works well enough for some people, but the markup is crap. It’s constructed very strangely. Writing a post, there is nowhere to put a title, and no way to upload an image. I usually ended up posting through wp-admin. Trying to modify the theme was rewriting the code of a drunken college student. I actually brought these points up to WordPress. Apparently they’re aware of its shortcomings.

So I scrapped it, and started over using my own American Bones as a base. It took me about 40 minutes. The only thing I kept from P2 was the Helevetica Neue and -moz-box-shadow: 1px 1px 5px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); for the shell to make a bit of a shadow in FireFox. And the shade of blue for the headlines.

The rest of it is useless. Sayonara, P2