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.

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.

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.