{"id":204,"date":"2016-10-22T17:55:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T21:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lmlc\/?p=204"},"modified":"2016-10-22T17:55:04","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T21:55:04","slug":"choosing-a-blog-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lmlc\/2016\/10\/22\/choosing-a-blog-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing a Blog Theme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Personally, I think my biggest obstacle with creating the blog was choosing a theme. WordPress has many options, so finding a theme wasn&#8217;t the problem, finding one that had all the capabilities I wanted was. The first theme I picked which I really liked was called &#8220;Vertex&#8221;. But there were a few features that I wasn&#8217;t thrilled about. First, it took the secondary title &#8220;A TLTC Blog&#8221; and made it look like button. However, if you clicked on it nothing happened. This was a bit misleading for our viewers. This button was also in the center of our blog page and there was no way to move it, edit it, or delete it.<\/p>\n<p>The second problem with this theme was that it didn&#8217;t have an option for a header image. When I first picked this theme, I thought that blank space at the top included the header image but it didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_209\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-209\" style=\"width: 371px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-209\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lmlc\/files\/2016\/10\/bad-blog-258x210.png\" alt=\"Here is an example of the blog that I didn't like. As you can see, the red bar looks like a button and I couldn't change the image of the clouds.\" width=\"371\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lmlc\/files\/2016\/10\/bad-blog-258x210.png 258w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lmlc\/files\/2016\/10\/bad-blog-768x626.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lmlc\/files\/2016\/10\/bad-blog.png 903w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-209\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Here is an example of the blog that I didn&#8217;t like. As you can see, the red bar looks like a button and I couldn&#8217;t change the image of the clouds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After some search, I found &#8220;Accelerate blog theme to be clean and user friendly. I was also with the rest of the research team when I chose the theme so it was nice to have their thoughts as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personally, I think my biggest obstacle with creating the blog was choosing a theme. WordPress has many options, so finding a theme wasn&#8217;t the problem, finding one that had all the capabilities I wanted was. The first theme I picked<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3253,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,42],"tags":[45,46,29,44],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-wordpress","tag-blog","tag-design","tag-efficiency","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lmlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lmlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lmlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lmlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lmlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lmlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lmlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lmlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lmlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lmlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}