About six weeks ago, a voice in the back of my head started talking to me. I want to redo the website. Why? I want to redo the website. Seriously. Why? Are you not happy with the website? I want something new. Why? I want something new. Then I’d find myself looking at WordPress themes … Continue reading The Way My Brain Works
Category: WordPress
On Thursday, the new version of WordPress — version 5.0 — dropped. I’ve been using WordPress since 2004 and version 1.2. 5.0 is the biggest change in years. I’ve been through the introduction of themes, sidebar widgets, post formats (an idea to compete with Tumblr that never amounted to anything). 5.0’s change is an entirely … Continue reading The New World of WordPress 5.0
In mid-November, while clearing away some old papers on my desk, I found a sketch I’d made of a website design. I couldn’t tell you how old it was — two or three years, probably — but there wasn’t anything particularly surprising or new about it. It was the same, basic idea I’ve pursued, sometimes … Continue reading Coding This and That
Friday night, following a week of deadlines and deadlines and more deadlines, I spent some time working on my website’s code. Two weeks ago, I wrote that I’d been fighting with the blog theme’s slider; the parent theme, Shoreditch, had a featured content section, but it didn’t slide. Instead, it paged with some controls. The … Continue reading Getting Closer
A piece of WordPress coding that I thought would take about fifteen minutes ended up taking close to an hour and a half. I switched my blog theme recently from Twenty Seventeen (well, a child theme of it) to Shoreditch (again, a child theme of it, albeit one that I worked on in a flurry … Continue reading Fighting With WordPress
Lately, I’ve been feeling the itch to change my WordPress theme. For six months, I’ve been using Anders Noren’s Hitchcock theme (with some modifications on my part). It’s a great theme and I like it, but it’s been six months, and I feel like refreshing things would be a nice touch since it’s spring. Last … Continue reading Thinking About the Blog Theme
Over the past week, in spare moments here and there, I’ve been working on a WordPress project — a Christmassy theme. I used to throw up a Christmas theme on the blog in December. For two or three years, back around 2007 and 2008, I used Brian Gardner‘s “Wonderland” theme. I enjoyed spreading some seasonal … Continue reading Cloudy With a Chance of Coding
Two months ago, I was thinking about a blog redesign. To my surprise, I ended up going in a completely different direction from what I had in mind at that time. Anders Noren, a Swedish designer, released a new theme, Hitchcock. (His themes tend to have literary or creative names, like Hemingway or Rowling or … Continue reading Working the Problem
I feel like redesigning my blog. This happens to me from time to time. Not as often now as it once did — I would change it up sometimes every weekend! — but I still feel the desire for a different look. The theme I’m using right now is Apostrophe, albeit with a child theme … Continue reading Brainstorming Ideas for the Blog’s Design
Over the last five, six, maybe eight years, people have asked me about my blog’s tagline. (Which is also my personal email sig, by the way.) Scroll up to the top of the blog, and there, in a Tolkien-inspired font, you’ll see it. “‘Made of awesome and Guinness and bright shiny pennies…’ What does that … Continue reading Taglines and Theme Music
In recent weeks I have been working on a WordPress theme. There’s nothing wrong with what I have. I like the Argo theme that NPR created. It does a lot of really nice things. I wanted a magazine-style front page, and I enjoyed putting that together. However, Argo isn’t not mobile-friendly. It wasn’t designed to … Continue reading Coding a New Blog Theme