I think the thing that gets me the most about themes is how they’ve completely broken with the “style separate from structure” function.
Now you have HTML files that call PHP functions, you have PHP files that have inline CSS declarations, and you have JSON files that store CSS and structure information (both) in one place.
So, reverse engineering a single theme is an exercise in using your crystal ball, changing something, and checking to see if something breaks.
Which doesn’t work on this site just yet, because it takes an hour to reflect changes on the live site, and trying to peek out how things will look in the theme preview doesn’t actually preview the pages, it previews what it THINKS the pages will look like.
Swearwords are abound, readers. Very abound. My apologies as things start to change, visually, as I fight through this.
Edit: I’ve made a few more changes on the back end that should speed up updates and visibility of new posts. I really hope this works, because these attacks are jumping around, and are now limiting themselves to countries I don’t want to block.
Edit 2: The change appears to have stopped the hammering, at least so far. Gotta keep monitoring.
Skåll!!!