The Ship of Theseus, also known as Theseus’s Paradox, is a paradox and common thought experiment about whether an object (in the most common stating of the paradox, a ship) is the same object after having all of its original components replaced with others over time.
I’m playing around with ThemeSwitcher Pro from WebDevStudios. It’s an interesting approach to WordPress development that reminds me of the Ship of Thesus. It sort of upends the traditional theme as the base-unit of the site, allowing different parts of a site to run different portions of a theme.
For agencies and freelancers pitching theme development work, the plugin is potentially a game changer, as it allows you to start with a small budget, rebuild part of a site, establish a relationship and work towards rebuilding the whole ship. It could also lead to pure chaos if a project isn’t managed well.
I’m subscribing to the pure chaos approach, as this is a personal site. I’m also sort of curious if I can dig into the archives and make some 15+ year old themes work again.