The new theme is officially up and ready to go, back to regular posting tomorrow. But first, let’s look at some changes so readers can find their way around and understand why things are as they are:

1. Comments on old posts will remain closed. In the top nav bar, you’ll notice there’s a new comment policy active on NakedPR. I’m really not a fan of closed comments, but it’s only fair that since the comment policy applies only to new comments, old comments should remain as-is. And since they were closed for months when the blog itself was “closed,” I don’t think we have a huge loss here. I also don’t want past bad form in comments to influence further bad behavior on some of the more heated older posts.
2. As you can see, I opted to go with a much simpler and more traditional blog format (much closer to the original theme of NakedPR than the last one). There’s much less clutter. You won’t find recent and featured post lists for example. You also won’t find a bunch of little chicklets littering each post page. (If you’re in this niche enough to be here, you more than likely already have your own favorites and are perfectly capable of using them without handholding.) The basic necessities of categories and archives can be found in the sidebar. I think the RSS location is obvious enough. Other than that, hopefully you won’t have a difficult time finding anything. If you do, there’s always the search function (no button–just hit enter) or the sitemap at the top of the blog which has every post sorted by category on a single page for you.
3. The only real amenities added are comment subscriptions and live comment previews (no clicking for the preview–it will display below the input form as you type).

I haven’t run across any problems on testing, but if you do, please let me know so I can look into it.