Bix dot Blog

I’ve re-themed the blog, resorting to a child theme of Twenty Sixteen, and my intention going forward is to not work in anything other than CSS customizations and custom functions. Everything else needs to be a plugin; no more creating and editing theme files. In the process of doing this, I managed accidentally how to make a very simple custom shortcode in order to get my tag cloud displaying properly on the archives page, which I needed to do because I wanted to get out of the god damned Gutenberg editor—and that meant reworking my archives page in the Classic editor, which required some learning because there did not appear to be an already-available shortcode for displaying tags. This also means that my tag cloud now displays all my tags and not just the forty-two (or was it seventy-five?) most-frequently-used ones. Tinkering will continue, and for the time being I am ignoring the fact that my “self-comments as post addenda” instead now display, well, as comments. I’ve accomplished enough and simplified a great deal, and the missing bits I’ll mull over the next few days.