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Huzzah! Knocked Out Some Overdue Portfolio Edits
I was hung up on categories; specifically, the right code for a single template to generate dynamic category pages based on whatever category link the user clicks. It was way more complicated in my head than the actual solution was. Turns out, I’d had the right code there pretty much the whole time. The issue…Continue reading »
Dynamic Category Page That Shows Posts From the Current Category
HOW IS THIS SO DIFFICULT TO FIND!?
It’s like the most basic functionality of a WordPress category page, but all I keep finding is “never ever use query_posts!” and “use WP_Query” and a bunch of code to do extra crap I don’t need, or code that uses query_posts.
I literally just need to find the code for the WP_Query…Continue reading »
Learning to Never Use query_posts
Extenuating circumstances have lit a fire under my bum to get this new portfolio reasonably usable. That involved a few things:
putting infinite scroll on the back burner – that’s going to take some serious time to figure out, if ever my brain can do such a thing
electing to use pagination, which apparently gets busted when…Continue reading »
Sending Email with Other Accounts through Gmail
Regardless of any frustration I’ve encountered with Google and their products — (example: their irritating switch to using your Google+ identity whenever you review an app from Google play. I’m really not out to troll reviews, but when I do feel moved to actually write one, I prefer a level of anonymity. There be crazy…Continue reading »
The Ever-Evolving Portfolio
Goodbye to the blue links! It only took…13 months for me to get around to it. I’ll chalk it up to burn-out, which I think I’ve finally recovered from now after a 2-month dose of sanity. Hoo-rah!
So that was just some quick and easy CSS. (I’m staring at my sidebar still, contemplating if I want…Continue reading »
Why Custom WordPress Design vs. Ready-Made Themes
It’s no secret that WordPress has changed the landscape of website design, allowing the layman to create and launch his or her own website relatively painlessly. So why would anyone pay for a custom-designed theme when there is such a plethora of both paid and free themes ready to install and use?
1) As…Continue reading »
More Planning, Less Work
I run into it time and time again: on my own projects but mostly in my current position. When there’s a great rush — an unexplained sense of urgency, for nothing more than urgency’s sake — planning takes a back seat to “Is it done?” (And that’s the more polite version. Usually it’s…Continue reading »