By Ronnie T. Dodger on March 18, 2009
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.
Posted in Wordpress | Tagged bookmarking, Joost de Valk, sharing, sociable, social, wordpress plugins, yoast |
By Ronnie T. Dodger on March 4, 2009
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.
Posted in Wordpress | Tagged breadcrumbs, function name prefix, functions.php, helper functions, html helpers, php, seo, template functions, template tags, wordpress functions, wordpress theme |
By Ronnie T. Dodger on February 28, 2009
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.
Posted in Wordpress | Tagged sample code formatting, wordpress plugins |
By Ronnie T. Dodger on February 24, 2009
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.
Posted in Wordpress | Tagged webstractive theme, wordpress plugins, wordpress settings, wordpress theme |
How to remove inline Recent Comments style from WordPress
By Ronnie T. Dodger on March 15, 2009
Have you found an inline style in your Html head section for WordPress’s Recent Comments widget? Wonder where it came from? Do you want to know how to get rid of it? Learn how to write a WordPress filter to remove a filter.
Posted in Wordpress | Tagged add_filter, functions.php, inline style, recent comments, remove_filter, wordpress function | 22 Responses