Site Management
New Theme for MrGray.id.au
I got tired of my old theme (Nikynik Blue), I thought it was starting to look a bit dated.
So I went looking for a new theme, still retaining the blue colour and came across Deep Blue WordPress Theme.
The theme was created by Nathan Rice. Thanks Nathan.
PodPress plugin installed
Tonight I have installed the PodPress Plugin (Version 8.2). This will now allow me to upload audio and visual files and be able to play them. Installation easy – straight into plugins directory and activate. The only thing I did do was change the default colours to match in with the theme I’m using. Here [...]
WP-DB-Backup Plugin
I have now installed the WP-DB-Backup Plugin (Version 2.1.2) from Filosofo. Installed in the regular directory and activated. Now accessed via Manage > Backup.
WP Plugins Tracker
Also installed this plugin – WordPress Plugins Tracker (Version 0.2), which immediately helped to show me that some of the plugins I am using are not the latest versions available.
Admin Drop Down Menu Plugin
I have just installed a new plugin – Admin Drop Down Menu Version 2.2.1 from Yellow Swordfish. I have been using Planet Ozh’s plugin, but was finding that some of the menu had two many items, forcing them onto a new line, and making things look a bit untidy. I came across this new one, [...]
Adding Some Buttons
So over the past couple of days I have been working on adding some buttons to my sidebar. Of course, a Google search helped me with this.
Taylor McKnight has a huge collection of badges available for download.
If that still doesn’t get you what you need, then make your own using one of these sites:
Adam Kalsey’s [...]
Some CSS Class Options
I recently discovered that it appeared there could be some CSS Class options available within the theme I was using.
A bit of searching found this bit of information, which helped me work out how to get it working.
Very easily, all I have to do to display the text as styled above is use the following [...]
Nikynik Blue Theme
So I thought it was about time I wrote about the theme I’m using on this site. It’s called Nikynik Blue and a big thanks to Nikynik for making it – I really like it.
I can’t even remember where I first came across it – it might have been over at edublogs [...]
New Contact Me Plugin
I really didn’t like the look of my old Contact Me page, so I looked for a different plugin. I found intouch (version 1.2), which I think I had actually used on the school’s intranet page – I don’t know why I didn’t just use that one in the first place
I had to [...]
Updating Permalink Structure
Also whilst reading this post on John Wiseman’s blog, I updated the permalink structure for this site.
Originally, I had it set as mrgray.id.au/archives/post-id-number, as in the picture below:
Now, I have adjusted it to mrgray.id.au/archives/%postname%, as in the picture below: