Why are social bookmark icons so tiny? Dimmed? Let’s jazz up the Yoast Sociable WordPress plugin, and make loud, in-your-face calls to action. Instructions and guidelines for swapping in larger-sized images sets and some CSS basics to induce readers to share more often.
Jazzing Up Yoast’s Sociable WordPress Plugin to Spur More Sharing
How to remove inline Recent Comments style from your WordPress Theme
Have you found an inline style in your Html head section for Recent Comments? Wonder where it came from? More importantly, do you want to know how to get rid of it? It is simple to do by writing a WordPress filter to remove a filter. Oh, joy!
Big Website List for Photoshop Tutorials, Tips and Tricks
In 2004, I published a website list for Photoshop tutorials, tips, and tricks. Some sites are still flourishing, some died, and I have added a few more — complete with brief comments to help you find what you need.
Solutions for Filtering the Noise on Twitter
Twitter overload? Having a problem filtering through all the noise on Twitter? Let’s look at a couple of options to throttle back on the noise and get to the tweets that you really care about.
iconPot: Free icons for personal & commercial use
A new website devoted to sniffing out free icon packages to use for any web development project, personal or commercial. No backlinks or attribution required.
Writing a Wordpress Function: breadcrumbs()
Let’s write a function for breadcrumbs that can be easily added to your Wordpress themes. Wordpress functions are preferable over the hundreds of plugins that are available — to me anyway.
Formatting Sample Code Snippets in Wordpress
Displaying code snippets in Wordpress can be a chore. Fortunately there are several plugins to choose from. My plugin of choice is Scott Reilly’s Preserve Code Formatting which prevents modification by WordPress and other plugins while retaining original whitespace and characters.
Stupid YouTube Comments
The Internet has always had loud dumb people, but I’ve never seen anything quite as bad as the people who comment on YouTube videos.
Undocumented Wordpress Query Function: wp_reset_query()
Creating a conditional sidebar widget in Wordpress turned into an odyssey of discovery. How an obscure usage of query_posts will bork your is_home() conditional tags.
The Building of a Blog
Travel with me through the inner workings of Wordpress during my installation and theme creation. What I did or did not do, and why. From Wordpress plugins to settings, it is all here.
