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…
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…
How I Created the Background You See Here
If you look at this blog, you’ll notice that the main background is a picture of stones under blue water, but that the background of the central content area has a white overcast to it. It sets off the content without being too distracting, because it’s the same picture. First, I downloaded the picture from …read more…
If You Change Something and Nothing Happens
A while back, I posted this on the Graphene support forum. I want to expand on some of those points a little bit here. I read a lot of forum threads where someone says “I tried that and nothing changed.” Occam’s razor tells us to try the simplest things first. If you change something, like …read more…
