I tried out several new themes out over the last couple of days, but this one’s the winner: Mandingo. It sports a 1024x display option, the ability to use two or three columns, two options for banner height, a built in banner image rotation mechanism, and plenty more bells & whistles besides. What’s more, all of them can be managed from its options page, integrated with the WordPress admin interface. I don’t have to fiddle directly with the theme code at all. People, this is sexy. Oh, and it actually displays my category hierarchy correctly! No matter how hard I fought with the old theme I just couldn’t make that work. Oy.

So. All I have to do now is… er… build a whole new library of rotator images. Ahem. I’m long overdue for working on the rotator images libraries anyway, so some extra incentive doesn’t really hurt.

(A note to my WordPress clientèle: If you’re interested in a conversion to Mandingo I can make it happen in a jiffy. Mari, especially, would benefit greatly from the upgrade to a theme which supports modern WordPress code and features.)