This category deals with the joys of hammering together a Wordpress based website. It may also wander off into other coding adventures, but for the moment it’s all CSS, Themeing, traffic management, and blog design.
Twenty Fourteen Theme Image Alignment WIN!
Twenty Fourteen Theme Default Look
WordPress upgraded the other day and with 4.1 came upgrades to the themes. …And like a dummy I forgot I hadn’t made my changes in a childtheme, so I upgraded without making a backup of Stylesheet (style.css) and lost all my tweaks.
So I had to go back and hunt down the changes I made, saved here for posterity (and if anyone else needed them).
- How to Resize the Content
- How to Fix the Image Alignment Issues after Resizing the Content
- How to Reduce the Whitespace in the Content
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In a moment of goofing off from NaNoWriMo I decided to take a look at what my website traffic has been doing since I turned…
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As part of my push to simplify the blog I've decided to put aside my custom Boilerplate childtheme (due to the fact Wordpress was stupid…
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For every actual comment I get on this blog I get several thousand spam posts. Thanks to Akismet, Anti-Captcha, and Bad Behavior most of them…
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The first day of the Intentional Blogging Challenge was today and our assignment was to write (or rewrite) our About Me pages.
The last time I touched mine was back in 2010, so the old version definitely needed some tweaking. It still mentioned the Mega-blog that I created when I rolled everything back into the Martha.net domain and the ongoing construction (that to be honest is always ongoing).
I’ve been meaning to do away with the Subblogs for a while now and rewriting the About Page (aka Mission Statement) was a good way to sort out my priorities. At least beyond the basic: See Horses, Read Stories, Learn Things mantra. (more…)
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Old Plans, New Wars
I now have over thirty posts in the Draft folder again… and nothing has made it out of that event horizon save Saturday Story Prompts.
They are all still proto-posts, full of rough ideas and a few pictures, but nothing that’s ready to see the light of day. Which means it’s probably time to sit down and start getting serious about the blog again. *rolls up sleeves*
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Vroom!
January has been a chaotic month, but things are starting to settle down again and I can get moving on some of the major projects for this year!
As I’ve mentioned before, 2014 brings with it the complete overhaul of the blog’s design. I’m transitioning from the multi-threaded blog that was the site’s rebirth in 2010 and focusing more on producing and organizing content that people find useful/interesting. There will still be all of the Horse/Warcraft/Writing/Business goodness there was before, this time it will be easier to find. 😉
I’m sticking with the Boilerplate theme as my base, since I’m not quite up to maintaining my own full-theme but I’m getting vicious with the edits I’m making to the childtheme. (more…)
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My site currently sucks on anything that's not a 'traditional' screen size as Screenfly has now made painfully clear. As a quick fix I'm trying…