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
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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 working on a couple of projects. In the fall, I colorized a photograph of Swampoodle Grounds, Washington, DC’s baseball park of the 1880s. I liked working on that, and now I’m working on colorizing another old baseball photograph, this time of Babe Ruth and (future president) George H.W. Bush. The photograph was … Continue reading Projects In Progress
Sometimes my website goes through fallow periods, and when I say “fallow” I mean that in two ways. On the one hand, I don’t feel like creating content. On the other hand, I don’t feel like looking at my PHP and CSS code. I used to post to the blog every single day. Now I feel … Continue reading Digging into the Website
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
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
Recently, I discovered that, when it came to WordPress, I had lost my step. I hadn’t coded anything in some time, I had largely ceased to blog, and I didn’t have any feel for the platform any longer. Heck, I didn’t even know what was new and current. I needed a little “warm-up” project. Something … Continue reading The Orpheus WordPress Theme
A few people have noticed that, sacre bleu, I changed my blog’s theme. It’s festive. There’s an Elf in the header. I made the change a few weeks ago. It’s just for the holidays, and after the New Year I’ll change it back. I’ve put up Christmas themes in the past, and this year I … Continue reading On Christmas Day
Where does the time go? Don’t answer that. It’s a rhetorical question. Life has been busy. There have been writing deadlines, both work-related and personal-related. There has been some personal stuff occupying my time — and driving me half-mental. And there has been working on WordPress code for the new website. Let’s take these in … Continue reading On a Life Round-Up