Bow down before the mighty power of WordPress 2.3 and the genius of Jim Stitzel. Awhile back I complained about my search for the perfect theme that would do the impossible: show random posts from my three writing categories. Jim, who loves WordPress and enjoys a challenge, said he could do it.

WordPress 2.3 is a huge upgrade that now incorporates tags and does away with categories. It’s going to be a bit of a learning curve, but one I was looking forward to. Problem was, Fantastico hasn’t updated to 2.3 and is always behind. I’m not that patient, but neither do I have the nerve to upgrade WordPress myself. I’ve borked my blog too many times. So Jim took on that task as well. Yay, Jim!

So, here is the wonderful theme that he built for me which is based upon the amazing Sandbox theme. This is a layout, with a great front page that has…. DRUMROLL…. random posts from my writing categories!!! Yay! Wahoo!! Party time! I like this theme and the color scheme is real nice. I sort of dubbed it “Chocolate Buttercream Eclair” earlier this afternoon. The great thing about this theme is that it’s all nice, clean code and I can update it with graphics and tweakage to my heart’s content.

So, go visit Jim, tell him he is a god of WordPress.