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Wanted: A WordPress ‘Disable Reblog’ option
I saw my first example of WordPress’s new “Reblog” feature in use today (I hope JW won’t mind if you pop over for a look). Admittedly when the feature was announced, I didn’t pay much attention, but now that I’ve seen it in action, I’m concerned. My first thought is that it grabs excessively long … Continue reading
Finally, a WordPress setting for SOPA blackout!
WordPress.com has finally installed and announced an option that gives you a way to blackout your blog tomorrow for The Great American SOPA/PIPA Blackout. It will also put a protest ribbon on each page of your blog until January 24, the day the Senate is scheduled to vote on PIPA. Just go to Dashboard > … Continue reading
How to blackout your WP blog on January 18
I started a bit of a discussion over on the WordPress forums about how to blackout my blog on January 18 in support of the Reddit blackout and other protests against SOPA and PIPA. One of the suggestions will put a little diagonal banner in the upper right corner of your screen that links to … Continue reading
‘Optimizing’ Pied Type
Help me improve your Pied Type visit. With my current theme (The Morning After), there is a lot of information on the home/front page that you won’t see if you arrive here via a link to a specific post. I’m curious whether visitors arrive on and look only at posts, or arrive on the home … Continue reading
Reminder
If you have a copyright date on your blog, don’t forget to update it to 2012. Those dates are one of the first things to signal a blog is not being properly tended and regularly updated.
About About
Pied Type’s About page, subject to constant revision, has been updated yet again. If you haven’t visited it recently, you might want to check it out. It might be even longer tomorrow … or it might be back to one paragraph.
Mining new ideas for your WordPress theme
Looking for new ideas for designing/redesigning/using your WordPress theme? Google the credit line at the bottom of the page (eg: “Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: The Morning After by WooThemes”) — don’t forget to add quotes — and browse hundreds of blogs using the same theme.
WordPress feeds: Full text or summary?
By now you probably know there is a WordPress widget that lets you subscribe to a blog via email. But I’ve only recently figured out why I sometimes get an entire post and sometimes only the first paragraph or so. If I don’t get the entire post, then I have to go to the blog … Continue reading
Happy dance
Doin’ a little happy dance here. I just succeeded in getting my copyright line into the footer without having to ask for help in the forums. First time ever!
Doin’ the WordPress switch again
As you can see, I’ve been redecorating again. What you’re looking at, for the moment at least, is “The Morning After” theme. It certainly isn’t the most attractive front page I’ve ever used, but I wanted to try a magazine theme. The idea with such themes is to keep the front page as short as … Continue reading
Hey, WordPress, check this out
In a previous post about things I’d like to see added to WordPress themes, I mentioned liking dynamic features, features that change or move or work in interesting ways. WordPress has introduced a few of them in some themes. Featured posts that change or slide horizontally. Widgets that incorporate several tabs — categories, archives, comments … Continue reading
WordPress: Paving cow paths
A few days ago WordPress users got a letter from Matt — Matt Mullenweg, WP’s founding developer — reporting on the growth of his baby. In the course of his presentation, he spoke of WP’s reliance on “Desire Paths” to determine the company’s direction. He likened it to paving cow paths, something anyone who has … Continue reading
Formerly Under the Influence, now back to Vigilance
Most of you probably haven’t noticed and couldn’t care less that I changed my WordPress theme again this week. But I did, and I’ve been busy behind the scenes fine tuning the code to my liking. My previous theme was Under the Influence and I spent a lot of time trying to get it to … Continue reading
Surprise! WordPress has tags-to-categories conversion
No doubt there are at least one or two other WordPress bloggers out there who will be interested in this breathtaking bit of news. While playing with my test blog and experimenting with new themes (oh yes, I’m always thinking of new presentations to wow you with, or with which to wow you), I discovered … Continue reading
WordPress releases ‘Piano Black’ theme
It’s true. Nothing makes a color image “pop” like a black matrix or background. If you don’t believe me, try previewing WordPress’s newest theme, “Piano Black,” on your WP blog. Color images are absolutely scintillating. The problem is, so is the text. And scintillating text is harder to read. Well, it is for me anyway. … Continue reading
‘Fair Use’ and the Flickr widget
I stumbled across an interesting topic in the WordPress forums last night — whether a blogger can use the Flickr widget to display thumbnails of photos other than his or her own. I’d previously looked at the widget and thought it was good only for displaying my own photos (I have none) or the default … Continue reading
The ‘joy’ of indexing a WordPress blog
Indexing anything is generally thought to be a royal pain in the butt. That’s because it is. But but few would argue the basic utility of an index. With online search capabilities, of course, indexes are becoming passé, but they are still informative when you want an overview of what’s in a document or website. … Continue reading
Ouch, WordPress lesson learned
I just got an unpleasant reminder about how this blog may sometimes look to my readers, and I’m not happy. First of all, please accept my apologies if you have ever been confronted with an ad while visiting here. I hate the idea of ads intruding on my blog, my readers, and me. I’d long … Continue reading
My (page) designing mind
Pied Type has a new look — again — and the simple explanation is the lady changed her mind. But there’s more to it than that. The dark Choco theme is warm and cozy. It focuses attention on the posts by treating everything else with brown tones. But its limitations frustrated me. Dark themes can … Continue reading
Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated
My readers, all three of them, have probably noticed my recent paucity of posts. No good reason, really. More like excuses. The elections left me burned out on politics and news. Besides, you don’t want to read yet another item about John Boehner’s crying and how I think the man must be emotionally unstable. Then … Continue reading
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