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…
HTML – A Very Basic Introduction
This is a very basic introduction to the HTML language. The intended audience is people who know absolutely nothing about HTML. The purpose of this article is not to teach you how to write HMTL to create a web page, but to explain those items you see when you view the source code of a …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…
Using Firebug to Tweak Your Blog
I am constantly recommending that people who are trying to tweak various elements on their WordPress blog use Firebug,* which will allow them to easily see the exactly the element in the code they are trying to change. Because I see a lot of questions about how to use it (as well as reluctance to …read more…
Some Useful Background Generators
When designing a website or blog, you sometimes need a background. You can try to come up with your own, and there is some merit to that, or you can try one of the many online background generators that are available. The following are a few of my favorites. ZenBG includes a large variety of …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…
