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Modifying Mimbo 2.2: Step One – Identifying Requirements

This entry is part of a series, Modifying Mimbo 2.2» The time has come for a major revision to my cooking and recipe blog and I’ve chosen Mimbo to act as the basis for the redesign.  This is the first in a series of articles that will detail the changes I’ve implemented to get [...]

The Better Feed Plugin – Your Feed on Steroids!

If you’re a long time WordPress user like myself, you may have gotten used to using the  <!– more –> tag to display teaser material in your RSS feeds.  If so, the decision to remove support for this feature in the 2.5 release of WordPress may have had you a bit put off. Since WordPress [...]

Grid Focus Public, a simple masterpiece

Grid Focus Public, by Derek Punsalan is one of the most respected magazine style themes that has been released for WordPress to date. It’s strengths lie in its extreme simplicity and elegance, not only in the way it presents information to the reader, but in the gorgeous minimal code design as well.

Grid Focus Public is [...]

Highlight Source Pro – A must have Plugin for Code Whores

If you’re like me and occasionally need to post code snippets in your wordpress powered blog posts, then you absolutely adore the highlight source pro plugin by Christian Knoflach.  Gone are the days of hard to read and uncopyable code snippets.  Highlight Source pro not only displays your code as a preformatted text via the [...]

A few pet peeves with WordPress 2.5

Please keep in mind that these are just my opinions and that the behavior I’m experiencing may be due to my server configuration, but there are a few things about the new WordPress Admin panel that just really annoy me.

I don’t mind fixed width layouts but please, if you’re going to use fixed widths, center [...]