I’ve been trying to redesign my site lately, and for simplicity’s sake I wanted to use a child theme. I’ve been trying to do this with Twenty Ten, because it just made sense to keep things easy and use the default theme. And, of course, Twenty Ten was just so new and shiny and awesome!

Alas.

What I want to do with my site is too much, and Twenty Ten isn’t quite flexible and simple enough to let me pull off the redesign. It’s tantalizingly close to being such, which is why I’ve spent a great deal of time trying to make it work. But still it lies on the far side of a very thin but definitive line.

So now I turn to Thematic. I’m sure plenty of people would tell me that Thematic is and always has been the obvious choice for what I wanted to do; I myself have actually been thinking about it almost since I started. But the many hours of closely reading Twenty Ten’s files—searching for clues to impertinent quandries—have been an education. I will definitely hold my own code up to a higher standard of readability from now on.

All that said, Twenty Ten is still the best general use theme out there. I wish it well and safe homecomings for the holidays.