I’ve been asked a few times recently if there’s a way to include support for various colored content boxes for sites powered by the Genesis Framework.
There are a number of themes in the market that implement this with shortcodes. I feel that isn’t necessary and want to show you just how it easy it is to do with CSS.
Five years ago I left my day job to become a freelance web designer. Not long after that I started StudioPress, and three years later merged to form Copyblogger Media.
None of this would be possible without WordPress.
Less than two weeks ago, Apple released its new 15″ Macbook Pro with Retina Display. Like everyone in the technology space, I refreshed the Apple Store page every few minutes anxiously awaiting for it to open.
And then it did, and I immediately purchased the 15″ Macbook Pro with Retina Display hoping to get my hands on it within a few days.
I read a number of reviews about it, and as an Apple snob it didn’t take much to convince me that this would become my new machine. It HAD to be better, right?
You might have noticed that I publish code snippets for the Genesis Framework that developers can use when building their sites.
I choose to build those with custom post types because I didn’t want them to be sent out in my blog feed. While I could have excluded the category from being included in the feed, I also wanted to separate the code snippets in the backend of my site.
There are close to 20,000 available plugins in the WordPress Plugin Directory, but only 7 of them have made their way to my personal blog.
I consider myself a minimalist in life, and when it comes to extending WordPress and the functionality of my blog, it’s no different. In fact, I try my hardest NOT to use plugins, but in some cases, I’m left with no choice.
Here’s a list of the plugins that I use and cannot live without.
A couple weeks ago I was Googling something and noticed that a handful of search results on each page had a small profile image next to the listing. See above.
You’ll notice that there’s an image of me, along with the number of people who have circled me and a link to more content by me.
When I saw the images on that search page, I thought “wow, that’s pretty cool and I bet it helps increase click through rates.”