I had to go to a new plug-in, but there is now a working dark mode for the blog. Don’t know why the old one suddenly started acting up. The publisher was willing to go way out of their way to service a piece of free software, but I didn’t want to grant them admin access under their terms.
Dark mode is working

Yay! Makes the just-before-sleepytime web surfing better.
RE the next day’s blog post: you been hacked? Orange Crush ad back in December 20something?
No, things are fine. You have to look at the post to get why I chose that picture.