Hey there! WPLover is now sporting a brand new theme (for the RSS subscriber folks, come take a look!) Aesthetically I do not have a problem with the previous theme, and it’s foolish to redesign just for the sake of having a new look, but there are various things I want to improve and it turns out the best way is to build a new theme. Here are some thoughts and notes that come with this redesign.
It looks like Pico wins something (yay!), so to celebrate here’s an update for it, bringing it to version 1.0.7. The improvements are:
Download Pico directly here, or visit the theme’s landing page.
Enjoy!
Just did some small CSS tweaks to this site. Added more breathing space and removed some unnecessary elements. Went wider (990px) over the old one (960px).
This is more a “here’s when I played around with Firebug and ended up making the site look different from the local one” personal reminder post, not a “come over and take a look” one, but if you do find something breaks somewhere, kindly let me know.
Pico is updated to 1.0.5 fixing a bug report by Alberto. The download link is still the same (here, direct download to the zip file). Version 1.0.5 is also available on The Theme Directory’s SVN, this way.
Added a really small (literally, I’m just deleting a character) code tweak in that article to deal with a bug. Visit the updated post here, especially if you’ve used the code.
Just added a related posts section after the end of each post (here’s an example). For this functionality I’m going plugin-less and opt with this nifty code, which returns related posts based on tags. The code itself is based on the original code on WP Recipes, the difference being that the former is able to work with posts with multiple tags, while the original only cares about a post’s first tag.
A tutorial on adding description to your WordPress 3.0 menu links. Might be a nice update for Pico.
Have your own short domain name for the purpose of shortlinking? Here’s an easy way to combine that with your WordPress install.
GWT is a great, frequently updated features like showing you search queries volume, malware and crawl error diagnostics and links to your site. If you don’t use it yet, you probably need to. This will help you get started.
I would recommend this either if you want more flexibility or to learn how to code a contact form.
This attack is very interesting because it is not visible to the normal user and the spam (generally about Viagra, Nexium, Cialis, etc) only shows up if the user agent is from Google’s crawler (googlebot). Also, the infection is a bit tricky to remove and if not done properly will keep reappearing.
Typography nerd rejoice. Works in Safari and Chrome, also used by Firefox by default for texts above 20px.
An updated (written in April 2010), well researched, CC-licensed Web safe fonts cheat sheet, available both in low-res PNG and high-rest PDF. Even the article is useful as well.
The Timaru Mental Health Support Trust website, made for charity by Team USA (comprised by web superstars like Jason Santa Maria, Dan Mall, Liz Danzico and Automattic’s John Ford) during the FullCodePress competition, is actually a clever child theme of 2010.
More recap by JSM, Daniel Mall, and Liz Danzico.
The simpler way to code comment form (once you understand how hooks and filters work).
I like it, I think it’s short and easy to understand.