I just switched themes. I had this one kind of ready in Photoshop. It’s based on Blueprint CSS with a custom column and margin width. It’s 1180 pixels wide. It’s totally not finished. I still have to work on my Flickr Favorites thing on the left, maybe mixing it a little with stuff I enjoy [...]
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My new blog theme
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010Why I won’t migrate to EE 2.0
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010Well I had said that I was moving my blog to EE 2.0. But that won’t be happening anytime soon. ExpressionEngine seems to be lacking an import utility. Version 1.6 of EE used to at least have an MT (Movable Type) import utility which could be used. But for version 2 EE doesn’t even have [...]
Thesis
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010Sheesh. I was just about to edit my Thesis WordPress template and found out that it’s got it’s own very special way of handling template files and functions. Not sure I like that. I’m used to working with regular themes or the amazing Carrington Theme Framework.
Editing the default WordPress Search Form
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009Most WordPress themes come with their own HTML markup for it’s search form. But sometimes you just don’t know where the hell the code is coming from. Let’s say you drag the Search widget to your Dynamic Sidebar but want to change the text of the search button. Well here’s what you gotta do: Look [...]
Showing and hiding the file paths in Carrington Jam
Thursday, August 27th, 2009Using Carrington Jam to create your own theme is the best thing since sliced bread, but it can become a bit daunting at times. It’s easy to get lost. The little constant called CFCT_DEBUG that you can set inside the “funcions.php” file in Carrington can really save your ass. It defines whether you want to [...]
My ever changing WordPress Plugin list
Thursday, July 16th, 2009WordPress is a world of plugins. I come from developing sites in Expression Engine and therefore I’m used to hand coding a lot of stuff. But in WordPress plugins is the way to go. From embedding .swf movies to writing some custom inline JavaScript in a bog post —everything is done by plugins. So this [...]
