Beef up your WordPress login security with Clef
[Blaugust Day 24] If you don’t already know this, I’m going to tell you: passwords are ridiculously insecure. Even if you have a relative complex password that you never use on any other site and never tell to anyone, it…
Next/previous posts links with thumbnails and excerpts
[Blaugust Day 20] I’m going to warn you right now: if you come here to read about games and my random musings, you’ll likely want to skip this post. It’s all about teh code. WordPress code to be exact. When…
Compact archives in WordPress without a plugin
If you’ve been blogging for any length of time, you might have an archive index page that lists your posts by month or year for easy viewing. And if you’ve been blogging for a long time, that list might be…
Styling the Jetpack Subscribe by Email widget
Back in August 2013, I ran into some trouble trying to apply CSS to the submit button of the Jetpack Subscribe by Email widget. One of the things I said was: You can’t use “name” or “value” to select it…
CSS Fix: Backgrounds that overlap floats
It’s been quiet around here lately due to struggling with a helluva cold for the past 2 weeks all while the deadline for my major work project loomed closer. There were times where I would be up working on it…
Using CSS selectors to style the Jetpack Subscribe by Email widget
Update:There’s a better way to do this using the [attr=”value”] selector. Being a web designer, I like to make things as close to pixel perfect as I can when I’m coding. So when I created a really nice button purely…