Switched to Hybrid WordPress theme
I had been using my woodgrain-styled custom WordPress theme for a while, but recently I got a little tired of it. It hid too much of the navigation in a clever little sliding javascript panel that no one seemed to find to click on. In the meantime, I’m starting to get a better idea of [...]
My 2010 Blogging in Review
This is a graphic summary of the most commonly used words in my blog posts in 2010.
Freedom Software, Competition, and WordPress Plugins
You’ve done something noteworthy when people are willing to tell you publicly that they don’t like it. Such is the case with my WordPress plugin, jQuery Table of Contents. Zoran at Hackadelic, author of a similar plugin, Hackadelic SEO Table of Contents, likes the clean code but could do without the Javascript.
WordPress jQuery Table of Contents plugin
I’m proud to announce my first WordPress plugin, “jQuery Table of Contents,” which inserts the lovely little table of contents you see on many of the pages of my website. It uses jQuery to inspect the content of your post or page and generate table of contents links based on the header tags. It’s easy, [...]
CROP Hunger Walk a success
I had the opportunity this year to serve as Co-Coordinator of the Twin Cities CROP Hunger Walk in Sterling and Rock Falls, IL. The walk was last Sunday, October 18, and I’m pleased to report that it was a smashing success! More than 110 walkers particpated. We raised over $6,700 for Church World Service. The [...]
WordPress 2.9 Features Poll
I was excited to see in my reader this morning that the poll for WordPress 2.9 features is focused almost entirely on media. I’m looking forward to being able to keep my photos in albums in Core WordPress, and I can’t wait for 2.9 to come out. If you’re a WordPress user, go vote!
WP Greet Box is Great
I just installed a new WordPress plugin called WP Greet Box. It’s responsible for the nifty little “Welcome, X user!” (for values of X that include Google, Bing, Facebook, etc.) that you see when you visit my website. I had been wanting something like this for a while, and long-time readers might remember that I [...]
Clash of categories
So, dear readers (and I’m looking especially at your, RSS subscribers), I have a question for you. I have begun (and will happily continue) violating one of the cardinal rules of blogging: keep your blog to a single topic. As I figure it, there are at least five different things I post about on this [...]
Viola! New Theme!
I just got done implementing the Vigilance theme for my blog. I had started out working on my own theme, but I am a terrible designer and my site was very… iffy. With a very few minor modifications, though, Vigilance is working great. I blame Dean for the idea. Rather than tossing all my ideas [...]
Introducing ClothesOn
This summer I experienced a sudden, inexplicable drop in visits to my website. I later found that it was due to a spammer hacking my site and changing my WordPress template to include spammy links. I cleared that up (see “Does your website sell Viagra too?“) and moved on with life. But I began thinking: [...]