In the three and a half years I’ve been using WordPress, I’ve always used themes created by others.

When I first installed the content management system, I kept faith with the default theme until I grew sick of it. This took all of five minutes. I then looked around for a look I liked and settled on Hadley Wickham’s classy Rubric theme. I stuck with that for a long time before switching to Kubrick in 2005 and then to Blue Zinfandel last year.

I’ve made minor changes to each of those but I was leery of making drastic overhauls, preferring instead to simply download a new theme whenever I felt the need. With so many free WordPress themes to choose from, why bother creating your own, right?
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