This post is displayed on Metamodern in a new format designed for brief posts, to be categorized as “Brevia”. This (and a bunch of other changes) reflects an upgrade in my WordPress theme, Thesis.
The typical WordPress theme centers a style provided by an HTML template, but Thesis is more like a PHP app. It has a nice set of templates, but under the surface, it has a huge bundle of options, and behind that, an extensive set of mechanisms for clean PHP customization, all supported by a thriving user-and-developer community. This post uses a PHP customization.
(Full disclosure: If you buy Thesis here, I get paid enough to take my wife to dinner.)
