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A longstanding feature of the blog has been the post count for 'Today' and 'post direction' in the top right. Because each day is chronological so the latest isn't on top I originally added them to my WordPress theme to give an easy, visual indication of updates and also to illustrate that the posts should be read down the page:

(b)log-In inherited this and, when I added the ability to change post order the direction indicator would change to reflect this.

I doubt I'll ever switch back to reverse-chron posting and really want to get back to thinking of each day as an item rather than a series of discrete posts. I am, therefore, considering dropping the post count and direction indicator. This will also further reduce clutter, increasing the amount of white space.

I've removed it for now (using a bit of logic that can never currently be true) to see how I feel about it after a couple of days.