I see a lot of requests on the Graphene support forum regarding changing the width of various elements of the theme. One of the nice things about the Graphene theme is that it has so many options. You can use one, two, or no sidebars, you can use “homepage panes” (which allow you to combine …read more…
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WordPress is one the three big CMS’s out there (Joomla and Drupal being the other two). WordPress offers a sturdy engine, an easy-to-understand user interface, and an energetic and robust development and support community.
WP Lynx – a WordPress plugin that provides FB style links
WordPress makes it very easy to link to other web pages, especially pages within your own blog. One thing it doesn’t do at all, however, is include text or images from the sites you link to. One site that does this fairly well is Facebook, which allows you to choose which images and text you …read more…
Test Post from Windows LiveWriter
This is a sample picture. I can’t figure out how to set it as the featured image…yet. Results I see a question every now and then about using Windows Live Writer on the Graphene Forum, so I thought I would give it a try. I’m not satisfied with my admittedly hasty trial. The main point …read more…
Kalin’s Post List – a brief tutorial
One question I often get about WordPress is how to create a list of links to all the posts in a given category. While the most obvious way is to just use the category archive, this has limited options, and to exercise them, you either have to tear into your theme’s core files (meaning that …read more…
Adding a Short Code to a Child Theme
For some time, I’ve wanted to add the ability to change the font size of a selected portion of a post, as if I were adding a footnote. Wil Wheaton does this a lot and it’s kind of cool and very handy. I’ve had some small success doing this. I added this to my child …read more…
Creating a Child Theme for this Blog
Earlier, I posted the custom CSS that I use on this blog, with the idea that others might want to see how I accomplished certain tasks. In that post, I noted that my custom CSS (which is the vast majority of the changes I have made) was getting so extensive that it was getting …read more…
Pages or Posts?
I sometimes run into folks who have a hard time understanding the difference between pages and posts and how they act on a WordPress blog. Let’s start with what the Codex says: In WordPress, you can write either posts or pages. When you’re writing a regular blog entry, you write a post. Posts automatically appear …read more…
