WordPress is evolving at break neck speeds these days and every major release sees inclusion of some new feature or trinket that makes it easier for site owners to use and customize their sites. In the upcoming 3.4 release one of the new features is the Theme Customizer which allows an administrator to make theme …
Yep, I am finally re-launching my much talked about but pretty much non-existent podcast, Conversations with Mor10. The first (and until now only) episode was posted more than a year ago but now I’ve finally gotten my setup in order and I’m going to make a valiant effort to keep posting. There are several interesting …
It’s been a long time coming, but Design is Philosophy finally has a new look and better functionality. The new theme which I activated over the weekend is called “Anaximander” and sports everything a modern WordPress theme should have: Semantic valid HTML5 throughout, responsive layout through CSS3 media queries, carefully enqueued javascripts where necessary and …
UPDATE: I’ve added a 4th step to the list to remove automatic inline styles from being inserted when embedding videos. If you’re using a responsive theme on your WordPress site (or you’ve built a responsive theme) and you’ve added YouTube, Vimeo or other videos using oEmbed you will undoubtedly have noticed those videos do not …
I am a frequent listener to Ideas and I love the show for its factual base, non-biased approach and excellent coverage of issues. Therefore I was perplexed when I listened to the two part series Demon Coal. Whereas it purports to tell the story of coal, what it actually does is make a valiant effort …
Though it is tempting to pick up a new laptop these days what with all the fancy new ultrabooks and other slim and powerful devices coming online I strongly recommend you hold off buying that new laptop. And here’s why: Microsoft is working on their new operating system Windows 8. And with Windows 8 the …
WordPress + Metro style + responsive design. That was the baseline when designing and building blendinsider.com – the Microsoft Expression Blend Team Blog: Create a modern design that used the latest in web technologies (HTML5), played well with mobile devices and reflected the new and quite different look of Microsoft. Though the site launched in late December …
One of my primary goals when building WordPress themes for my clients is to make it as easy as possible for them to post and manage content. And though video embedding has become much simpler over the years, controlling the video content can still be a bit of a pain, especially if you can’t remember …
The <time> tag is a little used but very effective little HTML element that allows you to embed additional information to dates and times in your content. The idea is that in addition to the actual text that shows the visitor the time, you can provide the browser, search engines and other computers with actual …
Can WordPress really do that? A case study of vierderduer.no