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.
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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!
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.
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.
