--- title: Prepping for 2012 date: 2011-12-21T15:37:49Z modified: 2020-05-13T11:15:34Z permalink: "https://dogwonder.co.uk/2011/12/prepping-for-2012/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 1086 categories: - General --- So think this is the third new design for this site in 2011. Which is 3 times the numer of posts for 2011 so far…truth is [twitter](https://twitter.com/#!/dogwonder), [facebook](http://www.facebook.com/richholman) and increasingly [instagram](http://instagr.am/p/aWrf2/) and [foursquare](https://foursquare.com/dogwonder/) keep me entertained yet allow me to communicate effectively with my networks. However a constant itch I feel the need to scratch is the wider narritive. Twitter, facebook et. al. are great, but they tend to be short format, quick thoughts or feelings, a snapshot if you will. I always liked this space for a bit more indepth thinking and musing on subjects du jour. So I’ve said it loads of times but yet again, as I appraoch 8 years of running this thing it’s time to try again. I think I have a fair amount to say and would like to give it another crack. Blogs may be somewhat 2002 now but hey, I always enjoyed blogging so even if I am madly writing away to myself I would like to give it another crack. Maybe not so much pressure to blog frequently, but about once / twice a month seems fair. As part of preparing this post I thought I would dive into some old themes and get some snapshots of this blog through the ages….going from 2004 by year. Seemed like a nice way to review what I have done over the last 8 years and was pretty fun activating the old themes and seeing what broke. Surprisingly apart from some legacy plugin code most of them worked even the theme built for WordPress 1.2! Now I am on the shiney 3.3. WordPress has come such a long way, such a great platform to develop and write on. Although the less said about some of the markup I chose to use the better . 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