Theme
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.
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 [...]
Updating Web Browser Page Titles
I was reading these Brilliant WordPress SEO Tips for Bloggers and Webmasters and found the tip to improve the format of the page title in the actual browser window.
Originally my page titles looked like these, the default setup:
The code on John Wiseman’s site said to insert the following into the title element of the header.php [...]
Some Comment Styling
This post is simply to do some Comment Styling of the theme and be able to test it.
Things I’d like to get right are:
Gravatars displayed at full size (80px x 80px), preferably on left hand side
Gravatars displayed in line, ie not indented further into the page as more and more comments are added [...]
Contact Me Form added
Tonight sees me add a contact form to the site. I am using the Secure & Accessible Contact Form for WordPress (Version B20070414). I installed the plugin in the usual space and followed the instructions to get the form up and running. I think I now need to do some CSS editing, as I don’t [...]
Nice Categories Plugin
This is a simple little plugin which will:
display the categories under which an entry is filed in the following way:
Single category: Category1
Two categories: Category1 and Category 2
Three categories: Category1, Category2 and Category3
Four categories: Category 1, Category 2, Category 3 and Category 4
I installed the plugin in the Plugins directory and activated it. Then I just [...]
Akismet Plugin activation
Tonight also sees me activate the Akismet Plugin, Version 2.0. This involved me signing up for an account at Wordpress.com, then using the API Key to activate the plugin.
I’m actually quite surprised. The only reason I’ve activated this plugin now is because tonight I had two spam comments already. And the site has only been [...]
Running Time Plugin
Tonight I’ve installed Running Time (Version 1.1b2) wordpress plugin from saruken.com.
Uploaded to my plugins directory, activated, and include the following code somewhere (probably my sidebar):
I know this site’s young, but it might be fun as it gets older, to know exactly how long it’s been going for??