I recently decided it was high time to migrate my other blog from Blogger to WordPress. Fortunately, nowadays the first part of this process, moving all your blog entries and comments across, is easy: Go to your WordPress dashboard Go toTools–›Import Select “Blogger ” You will need to give WordPress permission to access your blogger [...]
By default, a thematic childtheme will show all your pages except the standard dynamic index.php. This doesn’t matter if you are using a static home page – you get exactly what you would expect, links to “home”, “blog”, and any other pages you have added. If, however, you are using the home page to display [...]
The site I am currently working on is requiring a lot of filtering of the standard Thematic functions. Chris’ ThemeShaper page on filtering is a good place to start, as is his guide to how to use filters, but today I was looking for some direction on how best to customise the post_footer and came [...]
Choosing colours for a website is one of the most exciting – and the most difficult – aspects of the design process. The choice of colours determines the feel of the site (formal, friendly, wacky…). Not to mention how easy on the eye it is to read the text or find your way around. Using [...]
I’m still learning about how to manage the workflow surrounding using WordPress to create websites. In a matter of around 3 weeks I’ve become very comfortable with creating Thematic Child Themes for my designs, and with a useful pointer from the ThemeShaper forum I’ve pretty much got my design process sorted now. I use layouts [...]
Jean-Baptiste Jung put together a really helpful list of hooks for use with thematic. They allow you to e.g. change the footer credit or add Google Analytics scripts to your header without altering the template pages. You just add php functions to your functions.php file. If you are new to this concept it is really [...]
I’ve just installed the WordPress RDFa plugin. Apparently all my posts will now be automatically tagged using FOAF and Dublin Core. Over time this may even be useful? With google using RDFa now, and given I used to work with the Semantic Web people at HP (who are now epimorphics) it just felt like the [...]
I spend a lot of time browsing the web. For fun, for news, to solve problems with code, to learn. I end up bookmarking hundreds of pages, things I think I might want or need to use/read again and want to be able to find easily. But it just doesn’t work. I have umpteen levels [...]
I hate flash. I admit it. I really hate flash. I hate the way it makes style more important than usability. I hate the way that you have to sit there waiting for it to load. I hate the way it takes control away from the user. The back button gets disabled. Search engines find [...]
