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[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…
7 design tips for bloggers
[Blaugust Day 11] As a blogger, I’ve had to make some design decisions over the years, such as theme changes and screenshot choices. And as a web designer, I’ve learned that sometimes I was wrong. 😛 So I give to…
Blaugust Eve: The Lair get a facelift
‘Twas the eve before Blaugust, and in her room in her house, Faeldray was furiously coding, with both keyboard and mouse. Yeah, that’s as far as I’m going to even attempt to take that rhyme. The point is that there’s…
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…
End of Summer Redesign
Summer is coming to a close and I for one am happy for it. I realize that I’m in the minority here so for everyone else, I say: hey, there’s always next year. You may remember that over a year…