Update: Added a conditional to ensure that wp_pagenavi() runs once. The Elemin theme has it’s own built-in page navigation after the posts. It’s attractive, but not quite as flexible as the WP-PageNavi plugin. With this plugin you can put a page counter, link to the start and end pages, etc. It’s a cool add-on and [...]
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It’s not my fault, the wife uses Internet Explorer 8
For my home PCs I typically run the latest and greatest web browsers. I even run Internet Explorer 9 which is even not that bad™. Lately I’ve been vacillating between Firefox and Chrome. At my wife’s work they’re now using Internet Explorer 8. That’s an improvement, they’ve been on version 6 for years. This blog’s [...]
Fun with oEmbed and Twitter
This tweet is being displayed using oEmbed between WordPress and Twitter. This capability was added a few minutes ago after I pasted Otto’s code snippet into my theme’s functions.php file: So can an oEmbed’ed tweet also embed the Youtube video?youtube.com/watch?v=UfcNoM… — Jan Dembowski (@jan_dembowski) December 21, 2011 That’s pretty remarkable. I’ve embedded a tweet that [...]
Themify child theme fix
Update: Themify fixed the issue and an update is now available. The child theme fix is no longer needed. I updated my Elemin theme to the latest and greatest and ran into a problem. They’ve changes how style sheets are queued up to use wp_enqueue_scripts. That’s good, but now my child theme’s style.css will not [...]
I really am limited by my PHP and CSS
As part of purchasing the Elemin theme I get support from Themify and I asked for CSS help on their forum. It’s a good benefit and part of the package. I was able to get two full posts on the home page and leave the rest as excerpts but the CSS was baffling me. I [...]
Customizing the Elemin theme
NOTE: No parent theme files were harmed, modified, or otherwise abused in the making of this blog post. Sometimes I do learn things! I was able to customize the layout of my blog using a child theme, some CSS, and some additions to my child theme’s functions.php file. The Elemin theme from Themify is a [...]
Time for a new WordPress theme
The last time I switched this site to another theme was March 2010, before that April 2008. This time I’ve switched to a commercial them called Elemin. This is a first for me as I’ve never purchased a theme before. But it was on sale for Black Friday and I had been eying it since [...]
Still a sucker for WordPress beta
I took the plunge and once again used SVN to switch from running WordPress 3.1.3 to 3.2 beta. The betas are usually solid and I test my nightly backups on a different server from time to time. Unless something really drastic happens to the WordPress repo, I’ll be fine with the beta. The new fullscreen [...]
It’s the goofy user avatars that threw me off
My participation in the WordPress support forums was never overly ambitious. I would generally aim for questions that I could either respond to quickly or I had the time for. But for the last few months I have been refraining from picking up threads. Mostly because the questions fall under these categories: Something broke please [...]
Easy Twitter Button for WordPress
Twitter announced their own Tweet Button and have provided a page for creating a button on your web site. You enter some info and you get the HTML code to add. Extending WordPress has always been easy. You can add what you want via a plugin, or you can put the functionality into your theme’s [...]
