Trying theme Nook

20250222-2250. Greetings, chumps! The whole day and night has been blessed and mysteriously calm and quite. Thanks to Our Heavenly Father. Amen.

And just like that, I got bored with theme Blank Canvas. This time I’m trying theme Nook! Finalizing this latest theme was easy enough after spending the whole day tweaking my new Sidebar Content pattern, which is aligned vertically at 33.33% width and its mirror pattern called Widget Content, which is a clone/mirror of the Features page.

I was frustrated as usual and wanted to squeeze in as many OLD timey WordPress widgets. After a few minutes of meditating on the next course of action, I decided enough is enough and inserted the Page List block, which was in alphabetical order.

However, this alphabetically-sorted Page List block did NOT look good and I was forced to assign parents to some pages. Unfortunately, I had to go into one Navigation menu block to tweak each links to reflect the correct/new “pathway”! Fortunately, the Navigation menu blocks for all 66 KJV audio books were still intact after assigning parent pages.

I do NOT understand how after assigning parent pages to some are still intact while others are NOT intact, meaning if should I decide to reassign the location of parent pages, those would NOT “stick” and result as “page NOT found”. That’s annoying. In the past, I remember barely that we could move our pages around without having to worry about the “base” or original assigned location of the Navigation link.

Oh, I see. It’s 2259 PST and I received an incoming thought that perhaps, assigning what are duplicate test pages underneath the “Post pages”/Blog Home template or in this case the Index page as the Latest posts knocks out the children as NOT being found. I thought any pages would NOT knock out how the Navigation links point to the “page”.

Anyways, I also tweaked the FRONT-COVER twice, one with the Link in Bio pattern sporting five Filled (and NOT Outline) buttons and then later on just plugging in the Author block and followed by the Author biography pattern in place of the Link in Bio pattern on the very top just like the Intro to Blogger/Blogspot webpages.

I wanted to design my blog for the Mobile view (since I’m using more frequently with smartphone/mobile device than desktop or tablet) and a higher Jetpack Boost Mobile Score of “A”. But the design was, well, too plain and drab and too “san-serif” for my taste, which is the curly “serif” fonts!

So here we are with theme Nook and the normal black and white, two-column spread with the right sidebar column. I like it so far. But then I’ll know I’ll get bored with the look, because nothing seems to “stick” (again).

End transmission 2306 PST. Edited 2325 PST.


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10 responses to “Trying theme Nook”

  1. John Jr Avatar

    Nice, out of the new themes, Nook is one of my favorite, with its somewhat old style design, but still clean & modern.

    Nook, Twenty Twenty Five, or among the only few new themes that almost work for me.

    1. FLYNN Avatar

      Ah, there you go again: I’ll try theme Twenty Twenty-Five (again later on)! Yeah, theme Nook feels like an old-timey blog, but I like it (for now); because it is (like you said) clean. I didn’t like theme Lovecraft and switched back to my “default” theme Blank Canvas within a few minutes last night.

      1. John Jr Avatar

        After cooking dessert, eating dinner, I spend the rest of the night going through free themes that seem to have search built-in, until I was back to Twenty Twenty.

        Then I jumped to Twenty Twenty Five so that I can be up-to-date. I did not even type my dreams from yesterday yet. 😀

      2. FLYNN Avatar

        What you could do is sample the designs from other themes and plug those into your favorite theme. For example, I borrowed/stole the Footer pattern from theme OutNow and just colorized my Canva image design with Duotone. I’ll keep checking up on your latest design wherever.

      3. John Jr Avatar

        Cool, thanks Flynn, I will have to read up on that.

        I kind of doubt it will let me copy from Twenty Eleven, Twenty Twenty, Lovecraft, et cetera Twenty Twenty Five.

        But who knows. 😀

      4. FLYNN Avatar

        True, I forget but that’s probably allowed if you upgrade your plan from free. My bad!😥 😂

  2. John Jr Avatar

    I briefly tried Dyad 2, but the faded font and messed up color schemes in the footer and maybe a few other things made me jump themes.

    Lovecraft has an editor bug where quotes are not formatted in the editor, so you have to look for the block symbol to know if something is a quote or not. Links are not underlined, like they should be, and I wish that at least one more color was added.

    Twenty Twenty Five could use some more colors. I wish search was built in to it and all themes. I wish it, Nook, and other themes had header images.

    Twenty Twenty will remove your blog title if you try to use a site logo. It lacks header images. Headings are a bit too big, and maybe a few other things

    Twenty Elven’s font in the editor is too small and not WYSIWYG, it could use more colors, and few other things.

    Will we ever get our ideal theme? 😁

    1. FLYNN Avatar

      You are funny indeed, John Jr! We will never know. You know, if something “clicks”, you just know that’s the one! So far, it’s tedious work but worthwhile nonetheless. We will keep finding and searching for our ideal theme. 🤷🏻‍♀️😂

      1. John Jr Avatar

        The search continues. 🔎

        Now I know that I am not imagining things.

        I did not get a notification or email about your replies or posts.

        Even though the WordPress.com Reader shows that I am subscribed to instantly get emails and notifications of new posts & new comments.

      2. FLYNN Avatar

        Okay, I queried LEO AI/Brave, which said “By default, only the site administrator and the article author receive notifications for new comments.” Oh, andf it says that you need to subscribe to comments. And further more, it says I need a “Subscribe to Comments Reloaded” plugin. 😡

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Howdy! I’m FLYNN, a blogger based in San Jose, California. I graduated long ago and have been studying humanity and its failures. It is my hope that one day everyone will repent. Amen.