Almost exactly two years ago, I changed to the Twenty Thirteen theme. It was a breath of fresh air after what I’d used before. The font is beautiful and it was much less cluttered than the themes I’d used before. One of the things I like is that the color scheme quickly tells the user what kind of post I’m making. In practice, the post types made a bit less sense for the way I blog than if I were a Tumblr refuge, but it does make for a nice, colorful theme.
Of any theme I’ve ever had, I was most proud of my header image. Took me about a day’s worth of time over a couple weekends to get it right. I based it on another website I’d seen at the time.
I’ve enjoyed it for the past two years, but there have been some small drawbacks. For one thing, if I used the theme as intended, many things go in the footer, but that essentially means I can’t use an infinite scroll. Also, the sidebar, with its background, makes it a little ugly over the beautiful colors. Finally, my theme doesn’t quite work as it should on phones. It’s very, very close, but not quite right. See the image below.
![Blog on Phone - notice the header causes a huge white empty space](https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Blog-on-Phone-1-web.jpg)
I’ve decided to once again go with Automattic’s default theme, Twenty Fifteen. It was designed by a professional and it uses a beautiful font. The other things I like about it are the focus on content and post header images and the cleanliness of it. It’ll probably take me a few weeks to get it customized exactly how I want it as I’m not dedicating a lot of time to it now – I’m trying to finish up grad school.
So, as usual, here’s a few screenshots of my current theme (for posterity):
![Blog Twenty Thirteen Theme 1](https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Blog-Twenty-Thirteen-Theme-1.png)
![Blog Twenty Thirteen Theme 2](https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Blog-Twenty-Thirteen-Theme-2.png)
![Blog Twenty Thirteen Theme 3](https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Blog-Twenty-Thirteen-Theme-3.png)
![Blog Twenty Thirteen Theme 4](https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Blog-Twenty-Thirteen-Theme-4.png)
![Blog Twenty Thirteen Theme 5](https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Blog-Twenty-Thirteen-Theme-5.png)
![Blog Twenty Thirteen Theme 6](https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Blog-Twenty-Thirteen-Theme-6.png)
![Blog Twenty Thirteen Theme 7](https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Blog-Twenty-Thirteen-Theme-7.png)
![Blog Twenty Thirteen Theme 8](https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Blog-Twenty-Thirteen-Theme-8.png)
![Blog Twenty Thirteen Theme 9](https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Blog-Twenty-Thirteen-Theme-9.png)
![Blog Twenty Thirteen Theme 10](https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Blog-Twenty-Thirteen-Theme-10.png)
As is traditional, here are previous posts about theme changes:
http://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2013/04/18/changing-themes-after-4-years/
http://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2009/02/05/changing-themes-again-2/
http://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2008/04/09/changing-themes-again/
http://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2007/09/30/a-reminder-of-my-previous-theme/