I always want to build my own Wordpress theme, just because I could. Also, I am not happy with what's available out there, they are good enough but not something perfectly matching what I want for my blog.

Even though, I said "just because I could" - in practice, I could never find time to do it from scratch, at least not in this decade.

I am glad, I could finally do it using chatGPT and Cursor. I called it "kichava" theme. As of today this blog is running on this new theme I was able to pull together in couple of hours.

Update : Then I spent couple of days of midnight oil to get it ready for submission to Wordpress.org themes. Still waiting for review. Biggest challenge is to display excerpts with formatting kept as is. As multiple line poems being concatenation into single line is very injustice to the spirit of poem. Then there is this checklist from Wordpress I have to go over and validate multiple times. But now the theme looks much better. I want to add more block features in next version or incorporate any feedback I may receive.