How sensible / feasible would it be to have a different CSS theme for each year on my blog?
So posts from 2009 have a different look from 2010's posts etc.
I was thinking about how… misleading it is that all my old posts look the same as my modern ones.
Why, yes, this Yak is particularly hairy. Why do you ask?
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@2fd7551e gradually desaturate colours and introduce some grainy artifacts the older the post is...
@2fd7551e Maybe just write a data attribute into the page & change the colours/fonts/spacing, so you can keep some of the spirit of past designs without a big maintenance burden
@2fd7551e you could maintain a separate theme for each year and then use something like https://wordpress.org/plugins/jonradio-multiple-themes/ to switch between them depending on the post. It’s a bit more work maintaining themes, but maybe simpler overall than playing whack-a-mole trying to get one theme to work with multiple stylesheets?
@2fd7551e wouldn't be difficult code-wise, simply spit out the year of the post as a body class and style from there - can also use the same the_time('Y') function to do conditionals if you want to move the content around as well 
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