It seems like using wp code snippets used to be more intuitive, from what I remember. I could be wrong. I wanted to show my blog categories in the sidebar, but I didn’t want to have an unstyled label so I could add my own, without having to add anything to the stylesheet. After some googling, here is the path to better category display for minimally styled blogs:

wp_list_categories(‘title_li=’); ?>

Makes sense I guess, but it was annoying trying to figure it out. RTFM Jeff, sheesh.

As I’m starting my writing blog off slowly, I wanted a nice, simple theme that didn’t do anything much at all. I had an idea to make kind of an old-school looking page, like a blog I would have done in about 98. I couldn’t find anything much to suit me at the Wordpress Theme Repository, so I decided to learn to make a WP theme, as despite several years of hacking themes and general WP tomfoolery, I had never sat down and tried to make a theme. The result: Paperback Writer Theme – my first and most likely last foray into making a Wordpress theme. Please note that if you want to use it, you will want to add a good deal of functionality – right now it is very bare boned.