🧵Bloga Afiŝo Pri Blogado 3: WordPress, My Forbidden Love

 🧵Bloga Afiŝo Pri Blogado 3: WordPress, My Forbidden Love

Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace the Widget Graveyard

Or: The Template That Got Away

I visited WordPress again earlier this week.
Just… browsed. No touching.

There was a theme called... never mind what it was called. It had white space, graceful typography, and a font pairing that whispered calming affirmations to my soul. More than all of that, it had soul.

I stared at it the way one might stare at a minimalist Scandinavian chair one cannot afford.

I clicked “Live Preview.”

For a moment, I imagined a parallel universe:
One where Delfik Orakle wore clean margins and tasteful shadows.
One where my blog looked like it drank green tea and meditated daily.
One where my hyperlinks were centered and emotionally balanced.

But then I looked at my export options and saw:

“Download XML backup file”

Cue dramatic music.
I panicked. I closed the tab. I opened Blogger again like a digital comfort blanket. Yes, it was ugly. Yes, the layout was from 2008. But it was my layout from 2008.

We’ve been through too much together.