For a few months now, I’ve left my WordPress install alone. I haven’t gone through a succession of themes, I’ve added no new features.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, I made a few tweaks.<\/p>\n
I was visiting Peter David<\/a>‘s website, and I noticed that he had a bar of social networking icons attached to every post. Curious, I took a look at his source code (his blog runs on WordPress, so if I could figure out which plug-in he was using, I could use it, too), and I quickly ascertained that Peter was using Bookmarkify<\/a>.<\/p>\n I’ve tried out some social media bookmarks in the past, like Alex King’s Share This<\/a>, but I was never really happy with them. Either I didn’t like how they looked, or I didn’t like how they depended on someone else’s server (like Share This) which raised privacy issues.<\/p>\n However, Bookmarkify looked like it was easily customized, and it looked like it didn’t rely upon someone else’s server to do the work.<\/p>\n Installing Bookmarkify was a snap. Then I had to style the strip of social media icons, and I modified some CSS code from their website to work with the Tarski theme. Then placing the strip where I wanted it meant digging down into the Tarski code and writing a plug-in. (The issue was that Bookmarkify naturally placed the strip between the post and the list of tag links. I wanted the strip after<\/i> the list of tag links. Fortunately, it was a five-minute coding job to get exactly what I wanted, once I understood the PHP code I needed to use.)<\/p>\n I also added an “About Me” bit to the sidebar.<\/p>\n Tweaking done, we return you to your regularly scheduled blogging blatherings. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For a few months now, I’ve left my WordPress install alone. I haven’t gone through a succession of themes, I’ve added no new features. Yesterday, I made a few tweaks. I was visiting Peter David‘s website, and I noticed that he had a bar of social networking icons attached to every post. Curious, I tookContinue reading “On the Latest Website Tweaks”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4095],"tags":[351,4096],"class_list":["post-2319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress","tag-meta","tag-wordpress","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}