Every time I think I have the structure of my site finished I am destined to learn I am wrong. After the latest update to WordPress, I noticed that the mobile version of my site didn’t look right. It looked pretty awful in fact.
Web Development
Writing web pages and things.
Addendum: Blog Posts May Be Related
In a previous post I showed how I developed the “related posts” feature on this site, as well as the CSS I used to make it look nice.
Blog Posts May Be Related
If you’ve made it to the end of any of my recent posts, you’ll notice the addition of some related posts for you to explore.
Improved Excerpts 2.0
I recently got around to redesigning my blog. The whole design uses only the colours available on the Commodore 64 – the first computer I ever made video games for. The theme is based on the underscores theme, a bare bones theme that supports sass.
Getting Sassy
I can’t believe I’ve only just discovered sass. Sass is a preprocessor for css that makes editing your site’s style much more manageable. It includes things like variables and scoping that makes editing style a lot easier. Sass can then be compiled to normal css and used in any website.
On Dragon Burn Photography
As a volunteer for Dragon Burn I am responsible for maintaining the Dragon Burn website. Part of that responsibility is curating images created by the Dragon Burn Community. As with other aspects of running a Burn, what seems like a simple task can have some unique challenges.
Social Links: No need to use plugins
Social media links can help a site gain a following. They can allow people to share pages and follow your social media pages. There are several plugins that can add links for you and they can work quite well.
Category Pages
I wanted to split up my content in a neat and tidy way. I realised the easiest way to do this would be to split up my content by category.
When Plugins Collide
When making a new post one day I came across a bug in my website. I created a new post, attached a featured image, and hit preview. I got a messed up page that had two copies of my featured image above the page content.
Improved Excerpts
The default excerpts in WordPress are, in my opinion, a bit crap. All images and subheadings are stripped out and it always stops in the middle of a sentence. It also ends in that “[…]” which I don’t li.