Wordpress Coding
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Bringing Back a Bit of the Past
I’ve really been missing the of ‘Days of Ages Past‘ chunk of code that used to be on the page. The ‘related posts’ are fun… but there’s something about looking backwards in time that’s addicting. (Which is probably why Facebook and Google are chasing the same idea.) But when I went to cut and paste…
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Blurry WordPress Images (or: Darnit Photon!)
I’ve been frustrated for a while (after swapping to the Iconic One theme) with some images appearing blurred. For most websites this wouldn’t be much of an issue, but since I post art it was causing me no end of headaches. After some less than useful Googling and research into the zoom and resize tags I finally…
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Re-Theming the World (of Marthacraft)
Much like spring cleaning theme changes are pretty much a way of life for me. I gone from Mystique to Boilerplate to Twenty Fourteen and now to Iconic One in search of a perfect format. So far I’m liking Iconic One quite a bit, although one of the first things I had to do was tweak the white space and the font.…
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Twenty Fourteen Theme Tweaking (aka Death to Whitespace!)
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,…
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Of Phones, Tablets, and other WordPress Woes
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 out WPTouch, which is a plugin for WordPress that seems to be working as a pretty decent band-aid. It’s not as pretty as I’d like, but it will do for…
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Rebuilding a Website (or: See Horses, Read Stories, Learn Stuff)
I’m undertaking a big project this month, although most of the change will happen slowly, at some point there will be a dramatic shift in the design of this blog. Why? Because I’ve realized this web-home exists for three reasons: See Horses, Read Stories, Learn Stuff. Right now the design of this blog is really…
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Converting Images to CSS Sprites
I’ve been on a speed kick lately with the site, trying to find ways to make it load faster while keeping the same functionality. I started out by turning off all the plugins I wasn’t using, replacing dynamic widgets with static images… and finally by looking at the Google Page Speed Report and following the…
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Landing Page Redesign(ish)
I’ve been musing over it for a bit now and finally decided to swap the Index page for the blog back over to a list of the seven most recent posts. Originally I had it split out so that visitors could see at a glance if the subblog they were interested in had been updated–…