I am going to be making a labor-intensive switch to a new WordPress theme for The Wild Eggplant. I’m hoping the initial switch will be completed within the next few hours, so that the site is completely usable by visitors even if it’s not in its final optimized state.

The theme I’m switching to is the same one I’m using for Cutest Baby Ever. It’s a much cleaner look, easier to customize and modify templates, and it’s more search engine-friendly.

It also comes with the capability of adding a tag system to replace the category system. This will make it much easier to find exactly what you’re looking for on the site, especially when it comes to searching for unmatched characters in the WoT Fan Cast.

It is going to take me weeks to go back and update all of my old content to use the new tag system instead of the old categories, but you’ll still be able to browse everything the same as you can now. It will just be easier when I finish.

The biggest risk in this whole process is upgrading my WordPress installation itself. When I installed the newest version of WordPress for Cutest Baby Ever, WordPress decided to replace almost all of my apostrophes and some other punctuation marks with other ASCII characters and code. It took me quite some time to go back and fix every instance of the messy code. I hope the newer WordPress installation fixes the problem, but if not, please don’t be too alarmed if things look funny. I will get around to fixing them, but it will take time to get to everything.

Here’s to hoping for a smooth transition!

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